Stories

Faculty Bonding With Students

by Jill Rouse

This year at Sunnydale Adventist Academy, students experienced a unique week of prayer. Staff members shared personal experiences that changed their lives. Some spoke of how they came to Christ, others of influential spiritual figures or how they overcame hardships. Following is one student’s testimony of the impact this week of prayer had on campus:

I have immensely enjoyed hearing the faculty’s stories. It’s amazing to see how miraculously God works to bring these individuals to Him, and then having them all here at the same time. This has been a great way to meet our faculty.

I have felt closer to God this week of prayer than any other, because I now know the staff members. Witnessing how God has impacted them, personally, makes it more personal to me, too. I can see the hardships they’ve gone through, how they can now walk away more determined than ever to stick with God. They’re our examples, and they’re great ones. They mess up sometimes, like we all do, but it just brings us all closer to God in the end. They care about us and like to see what we’re up to in our lives, and now we can care about them, too.

Jill Rouse is a senior at Sunnydale Adventist Academy.