It’s late in the school year, and it’s easy to grow weary. We’ve passed through re-enrollment season and are headed toward year’s end, but we are still in enrollment season for many. There are prospective parents in our community who are weighing the risks and rewards of enrolling their children at Providence. There are even parents right here in the Providence community who are seeking God’s will for their children and considering whether they should press on at Providence.

To us all, I want to offer (what I hope is) these encouraging words. Please hear my heart and my call to you to look to the Lord’s grace for guidance and encouragement in the journey.

In every age, God entrusts to parents a sacred stewardship: the raising of children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. This calling is not incidental or secondary. It is one of the most significant responsibilities a Christian can bear. In a world often confused about truth, goodness, and beauty, your role as a parent is both a weighty duty and a profound privilege.

To choose a classical Christian education for your children is to embrace that calling with intentionality. It is to say that education is not merely about information, but about formation. Not merely about preparing for a career, but about shaping a soul.

Moses reminds us, “You shall teach them [God’s words] diligently to your children” (Deut 6:7). This command places parents at the very center of a child’s formation. A school like ours exists not to replace that role, but to come alongside you, to assist, support, and partner with you in this sacred work.

A classical Christian education seeks to cultivate wisdom and virtue. It trains the mind to think clearly and the heart to love rightly. Through the study of great books, the discipline of language, the beauty of mathematics, and the order of creation, students are invited to see the world as God has made it: coherent, meaningful, and ultimately pointing to Him.

But this vision requires something of you as well, parents. It calls for courage, engagement, and perseverance. There will be days when the work feels slow, when lessons seem difficult, when the fruit is not immediately visible. Yet take heart: the labor you are investing is not in vain.

You are not simply raising students—you are raising men and women who, by God’s grace, will stand firm in truth, speak with clarity and courage, and live lives marked by faithfulness.

Remember that the goal is not perfection, but direction. Faithfulness in the small, daily acts: reading together, praying together, discussing what is true and good. These are the seeds of lasting formation.

So be encouraged: God has not called you to this task without also supplying His grace. As you walk in obedience, He is at work in ways seen and unseen.

Thank you for entrusting your children to this shared mission. It is an honor to labor alongside you in the formation of the next generation, for the glory of God and the good of His church. Let’s press on together to the very end, as an offering of worship to Him.