This was a
big week for Faith Academy. It was the dedication of the new auditorium - the Cadd Theatre. It started with the actual dedication service - which I did not attend as it was quite packed and it was Wednesday, Rose's day home and I did not fancy taking three small children to a two hour dedication service. By all accounts, it was well done - but I think I made the right call - at least two school children from Elementary fell asleep during the affair! Following that was 2 days of a Middle School/High School concert in the theatre and dinner theatre afterwards. On Sunday, there was a final celebration service with singing and an address from Paul Tan-Chi.It is a gorgeous building and amazing facility. God provided the funding through a Korean Church group in the US who wanted to bless the school for its efforts to extend its educational provision to greater numbers of Koreans. They are the same group who paid for the swimming pool and I think they are considering the next project!!
It means we will have graduation on campus from now on which can only be good!
The acoustics are amazing, everything about it blows me away but the funny thing is that for our kids the theatre will always have been part of their school and not this amazing thing we have all watched being built from scratch and anticipating from before the funding was ever confirmed. Same with the swimming pool - our kids have no appreciation for what it was like here without that great facility. We use it so often now, yet a couple of years ago it didn't even exist!
I'm sure there is a spiritual lesson in there!
However, the most amazing thing about it all is that Rose won the first prize for Kindergarten for the art contest that was arranged for the dedication. The judges assured Steve it was not fixed as her name was not on the picture when they chose it!! I have to be honest, I never thought a child of ours would win an art competition as it's one area neither of us has any talent in!
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