The Gift of Learning New Languages

Written by Mr. Stephen Ownby, Specifics Lead Teacher

There are so many languages in our world. There are the languages that are understood via
speech, and then there are the languages that are demonstrated, acted out, and creatively produced. The students at the Academy for G.O.D. are getting experience in all of these languages.

Students will spend time with Spanish, English, and even Hebrew at our school. Additionally, they are learning the value of communicating through the creative arts such as music, drama, and even athletics. All of these skills and expressions are ways that people communicate, and it is preparing them not only for the future, but also for their present interactions with one another and their greater communities.

Jr High students, alongside Vice Principal Muñoz, lead the student body in worship during a school wide chapel service.

During times of worship you can see older students effectively leading worship for their peers. Throughout the building you'll hear the languages I mentioned above, but it's also possible to hear Hindi, Swahili, Tagalog, and multiple other languages spoken from around the world. I believe that the education our children are receiving is better than we could have ever imagined for them. Our students are incredibly intelligent, and they are growing in wisdom and discernment every day as they experience the Spiritual, Ethical, Social, Emotional, Academic education that they are receiving.

I use the word experience because I witness our teaching staff facilitate creative moments every day for your children to grow closer to our God who has demonstrated His great love for us. These kids are learning to speak many of the various forms of communication that exist in our world, and mostly they are learning how to love in the way that God has instructed us to do through our words and actions.

Deut. 4:5-8 -- "See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’ For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him? And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today?"

John 13:35 -- "By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."