Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: I think what's happening here is extraordinary. I really do. You've got some families that are driving more than an hour each way to be part of this.
[00:00:08] Speaker B: Our school has expanded. Now we have 87. 87 churches represented in 405 students. And what that tells us is that our school has become a regional Christian high school. Right? Not just a neighborhood Christian school, but one where people will sacrifice a lot of time to get their kids here.
[00:00:33] Speaker A: Nick Harris, what a blessing it is to be here at Berean Christian High School in Walnut Creek, California.
[00:00:40] Speaker B: Yeah, thanks for coming. I know you've come a long way.
[00:00:42] Speaker A: Let's back up with the beginning. You had this long, I would say illustrious. We'll get into this NFL career.
So you grew up in Arizona, kind of an agrarian rural area, and decided, hey, I kind of like soccer and I can kick a football.
[00:00:59] Speaker B: Yeah. So I grew up. I have an identical twin brother, a clone. Right. I always tell them, if I need a kidney, you're my guy and I'll be your guy.
And we have a single mom. Our parents split up when we were pretty young. And so my mom's plan for raising two twin boys on her own, you can imagine, was to take us to church and to keep us in sports, you know, that people would be pouring into us spiritually and that we would have no idle time because we were always on a team, always competing.
And so she didn't let us play football until high school. And so we did play soccer and baseball and things like that. And so when I got to high school, I had this eye foot coordination thing going on and tried out for the football team and, you know, ended up playing tight end, a little bit of offense and defense. And then it came time, you know, to have tryouts for punter, you know, and I figured, so you just catch the ball and kick it. And so right away I had a knack for that. And it was something that I never knew in a million years would actually be the thing that took me to new places.
[00:02:13] Speaker A: Actually.
[00:02:13] Speaker B: I can look back in time and see that, you know, the reason I came to know the Lord and the reason I came to know my wife and to get married and to go to the school that I went to and even launched a career in the National Football League. And even being at this school today as the head of school, it goes back to kicking a football.
[00:02:36] Speaker A: Well, it had to have been eye opening, maybe a little different or weird to go from small town Arizona to UC Berkeley. Yes.
[00:02:47] Speaker B: There's no place on planet Earth Like Berkeley, California, you know, you have Nobel Prize winners, you know, walking down the streets. I took a class from a Nobel Prize winner, Nobel laureates, some of the most accomplished academics, scholars, scientists, and the whole world.
And there's even a Lawrence Laboratory at the top of the hill where, you know, they're doing work on advanced chemical lasers and satellites. And amazing people live in that community. And then there's the hippie, you know, community, which is, you know, the remnants from the 1960s and just a very unique, very diverse place. And here I am, you know, I came from, you know, small town, Arizona, and into this place, and I was shocked.
I had culture shock like no other. And so that first year in Berkeley, it was difficult, you know, I didn't know where I was, and it was very strange to me. But then I came to know the Lord at Berkeley as a freshman. I grew up going to church.
You know, I knew all the stories about the Bible and had a morality, you know. You know, throughout high school that was based on being a good football player. You know, I don't go out and smoke and drink and do all and carouse because it would affect my performance on the field, right? Not because I wanted to honor the Lord.
And so I got to Cal, and there's a man named Andy Fitzgerald with campus. It was called Campus Crusade at the time, who, who I befriended.
And, you know, I had a meeting with him one day and he asked me, you know, the question that changed my life forever. You know, he said, you know, you're here at Berkeley, you're playing big time college football.
You know, you got your whole life ahead of you. You have great education, great sports. And he goes, but what if your life, you know, takes a turn?
You know, actually, what if something happens that derails your life? Like, what happens even if you.
If you die unexpectedly, right? You stand before God someday and, you know, how sure are you that you're right with him and that you'll be with him when you die?
And I thought to myself, I'm pretty sure.
And he asked me, he goes, why are you pretty sure? I said, well, I live a good life.
And I played the comparison game. And I said, compared to, you know, people who do this kind of thing, I don't do that, right? And I had this whole list, you know, I don't do this, I don't do that. And, you know, I stand, you know, before God on Judgment Day, you know, I feel like I've got a good chance, you know, and my friend Andy pulled out the Bible. And he said there's nowhere in here or anywhere else where God ever said how good is good enough.
Right. It only talks about the perfection of Jesus Christ and how every human being has fallen short of that perfection.
And, you know, over the course of, you know, a few minutes, Andy, you know, talked about sin and I.
And I've fallen short. Like I was convicted as an 18 year old kid at the University of California at Berkeley, of all places, and prayed to receive Christ right there on campus.
And what was so cool about this guy, Andy, is that he discipled me for four years at the university.
[00:06:21] Speaker A: And God bless those mentors who felt called to be at schools like Berkeley. That's one reason why I go to secular schools all over the country and speak. Because a lot of times these young people just need someone to listen.
[00:06:35] Speaker B: Amen to that.
[00:06:35] Speaker A: To have that safe space where they can ask any question they have or criticisms and you take them seriously and you meet them where they are and you work through it together.
[00:06:45] Speaker B: And I've been able to go back to the university, you know, post NFL career and now as the leader of the school, I've been invited several times to address the Christian athletes.
[00:06:56] Speaker A: That's awesome.
[00:06:57] Speaker B: On the campus. And often those athletes will bring their peers who don't know Christ to those meetings. And the last time I was there, as a point of introduction, I had a slide and the slide that I showed was a picture of the university CREST, Right. From 1868, University of California. You know, the thing that they put on the stationary to this day, it hasn't changed to this day, right? You go there and there are massive and put in bronze engraved things in the ground of the Berkeley crest. And you know what's in the middle of it is a picture of the Bible that. The founding logo that the University of California at Berkeley. On my diploma, yeah, on my diploma is from the school. It has the crest with a Bible opened to the book of Genesis, right? And you know it's the book of Genesis because it says Fiat Lux at the bottom, which is Let there be light.
And in 1868, that was the basis, the ontological basis for all truth at Berkeley.
[00:08:10] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:08:11] Speaker B: And so I asked the students, I showed them that slide.
I walk around, there was even a girl in the audience who had a sweatshirt with the university crest on it.
And I said, what happened? And gradually, over time, the students were able to throw out suggestions and you know, Darwinism and liberalism and you know, those, those kind of things emerged. And really it was the story of human Beings turning. Turning their back on the word of God.
And to know that that school is thoroughly secular now. But you can look at most of the Ivy League schools that they were. They were seminaries.
[00:08:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:08:48] Speaker B: Harvard, Yale was created because. Was started because of the liberalism that had infiltrated Harvard.
And so it goes. And it's a warning to the rest of us.
Right. That that's possible, that little by little you can turn your back on the word of God.
[00:09:09] Speaker A: Well, I love that.
The crest or the seal, that it's still there. It reminds me of Ferris Bueller's Day off, you know, the movie where, you know, he says, life moves pretty fast, and you just need to slow down and stop and, you know, look and listen or you may miss something. And I think even in the case of Berkeley, you know, it's right there.
But God's people are image bearers. And those who know the Lord are able to say, well, let's make sense of this, of how God did speak into creation and how each one of us has the seal not of Berkeley, but made in the image of God.
[00:09:46] Speaker B: Amen to that.
[00:09:47] Speaker A: Is there every single person? And how, you know, you look at Ecclesiastes, Solomon, the wisest person alive, said, God is set within our hearts.
[00:09:55] Speaker B: Eternity.
[00:09:56] Speaker A: And yet we try to fill that void with things other than the Scriptures, other than God. And no matter what it is, we just will always fall short and be empty. And I think about St. Augustine, who chased everything and ran from God. And then eventually he takes up the scriptures he reads and he realizes in the famous line in his Confessions, oh, God, you have made us for thyself, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in you. Yeah, and that's. I know what happened to you. You found the rest in God at Berkeley, and that has motivated you through your NFL career.
And then here, you know, at Berean. And what a blessing.
[00:10:41] Speaker B: Everything that I do is worship unto the Lord with the talents and the skills and the abilities that he's given me. Right. The effort that I put forth to perform and to make him look good.
[00:10:54] Speaker A: Excellence is unto the Lord.
[00:10:55] Speaker B: Unto the Lord.
[00:10:56] Speaker A: I think about Eric Liddell, the Chariots of Fire.
[00:10:58] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:59] Speaker A: And I'll never forget he said, you know, God made me fast, and when
[00:11:03] Speaker B: I run, I feel his pleasure.
[00:11:06] Speaker A: And so that was you in punting,
[00:11:08] Speaker B: you know, and I was just in awe of the. Again, of the fact, you know, that I got to do that.
You know, that the Lord providentially arranged for me to kick a football to go to Berkeley. And this time and place to go to full ride. Yes.
[00:11:23] Speaker A: Now you're in the NFL.
[00:11:25] Speaker B: In the NFL. And just, you know, surrounded in many, many years by solid Christian men on some of those teams that were really at it for him and really understood that really made an impact in the community in which we lived, especially in Detroit. And just some. Some fantastic stories behind the scenes, right? The things that you. You never hear on the news or read in the newspaper. There used to be such a thing.
You know, these. These amazing things that were happening in the lives of players and the work that they were doing in the community in the name of Christ.
[00:12:01] Speaker A: Awesome. Well, let's talk about Berean and how you went from NFL. You know, your career is winding down. You're in, I'm assuming, your early 30s, and. And you're thinking, okay, what next? You know, you really have most of
[00:12:16] Speaker B: your life, Lord willing, ahead of you. While I was at Berkeley, I finished a master's degree in education, but I wanted a theological education. I was drawn to the Lord.
I felt called to some sort of ministry, whether pastoral ministry or, you know, anything else. I was up for whatever God was going to do, but I was going to go to seminary first.
Prior to that, Pastor also gave me a mentor. He mentored me. And then he gave me another mentor, a guy named John Van Beesbrook, who was a retired NHL player. He was a goalie for the New York Rangers and just a fantastic guy who had transitioned from professional sports to the business world. He started a streaming service for hockey. Hockey games. He was an early adopter of that. And our pastor knew that we needed to hang out because I was making the move to retire from the NFL and into something else, not knowing what that was.
And so John gave me a book.
The book was called Halftime by Bob Buford. And the premise of the book is that there's a point in a man's life where, you know, he's been successful. He's done what he's had to do to work and to raise a family and build a career. And then as you get down the road in life, you feel this need to do something significant and in a Christian man's life, to do something for the Lord, right? To work for him. And so the book has you work through an inventory of your life. What do you know? What do you love? What are you good at?
Talents, skills and abilities. And then how might you repurpose those for significance for the kingdom for the second half? Halftime. Yeah, it was a great title.
And it's funny because here I am in my 30s, and most guys who read that book have gray hair, you know, or, you know, or older, maybe 50s, even 60 years old hair. They still have. Yes, I still have a lot of hair at that time.
And so I read the book, I did the inventory, and I thought that the. The repurposing of what I know and love with sports and, you know, theology and the love of God and ministry and maybe even some teaching now that I'm doing these speaking things, you know, what does that. You know, you put all of those things together and then repurpose them for something new. And I wrote down in that book, teach and coach at a Christian high school.
Okay, that makes sense. Close the book, put it on the shelf, and pursued a Master's of divinity for four years.
Where, you know, you read and you write and you study and you spend time in God's Word, you know, just delighting in him and his Word and doing a lot of writing and reading for four years. And I got to the end of those four years, we moved back to California, and I was finishing one class through correspondence. You know, it started there in Michigan, and I was finishing, and I'm almost done. I'm going to have a Master's of Divinity. Like, lord, what do you want me to do?
[00:15:46] Speaker A: On top of the master's of education
[00:15:48] Speaker B: from Berkeley for Berkeley, Like, Lord, what do you want me to do? And so I looked on the bookshelf and pulled out that book that I had written years earlier, four years earlier, and it said, teach and coach at a Christian high school.
And I thought, wow, you know, there's a school down the street, and I go jogging every morning, and sometimes I go that way and jog past that school. So I went on the website, I saw they have an NFL, former NFL guy as the head coach of the school.
And I thought, wow, Like, Lord, are you calling me, like, to go like that five blocks down the road from where I live? Wow. And so I started asking around about the school, met the head coach, met some others associated with the coach, some parents of the school, and came over and introduced myself and grabbed a substitute application to be a substitute teacher. Right? I'm gonna. I just want to get behind the
[00:16:48] Speaker A: curtain, get your feet wet, see what it's like.
[00:16:50] Speaker B: See what it's like.
And so that application sat on my desk for about two weeks.
I filled it out and I brought it back in the very morning that I brought my application in to be a substitute teacher. A Bible teacher had resigned, right? This was the middle of the year, just the start of the second semester.
Sort of a principal's nightmare to lose a teacher mid year, right? And the same day I brought in and here I am, I have a master's degree in education from Berkeley, a master's of divinity, and I'd like to sub. And so the, you know, the principal told me, you know, down the road, years down the road, he goes, I, you, I was praying and you walked in and like, lord, how am I going to fill this spot? And he walked in and said, I'd like to be a sub. And he, and so he asked me, would you like to interview for the full time job?
And I said, when does it start? And he said, Monday.
I said, what's the class?
He said, church history.
And I said yes, the room we're in now. Yeah, the very room that we're in now. I said yes, because I knew what that meant. I knew that it meant lots of prep and I had never done it. You know, I felt confident in the material that I knew, but I'd Never stood before 16 year olds, 17 year olds, you know, to teach.
But again, God showed up and I walked into that classroom mid year and fell in love with teaching 16 year olds Christian history and the word of God.
We turned that class into, we started calling it historical hermeneutics, a study of the church through interpretation of scripture, and just was delighted to do that. I remember it wasn't long after that, I think in my second year, I went home and told my wife, I said, I'm going to do this for the next 30 years. Like this is, this is, I'm going to end my life at the school teaching.
And a few years went by and the principal of the school, the very guy who prayed and I walked in the door, you know, came into my classroom during a break and he said, I'm going to retire.
And I knew since the day that you walked in here that you were the next head of school of bereaved Christian High School. And I was caught off guard. I said, you know me.
And so over the course he goes, I want you to pray about it. You know, I want you to consider this and I want you to, you know, talk to some people and see what they think. And, and you know, like a pastoral calling, you know, is both an internal compulsion and an external confirmation. And so mine kind of happened in reverse. You know, usually it's that pastor is like, you know, of a church. It's like I wake up every single day thinking about this right I was doing that with teaching, but not leading the school in that capacity. So I started to ask around teachers at the school, my pastor, my wife, like, do you see this in me? And 100% of people I asked are like, yes, God made you for this.
And so it was after that that I started to pray. And really, through a Baptist ordination exam that they gave me to think about, really to work through my own philosophy of Christian education, where I would like to see the school go in the future. And really what God said about human beings and educating them to know him, to make him look good, to fill, subdue, and have dominion over the earth. And I thought, you know, hey, that book. That book, you know, this is going to be. This is going to be significant, Lord, and I can't believe that you're calling me to be the one who gets to do this work at this place and this time in the San Francisco Bay area, that we get to punch the devil in the face, like, with the kids that we are sending out of here, you know, to be at it for him, right to every nook and cranny, wherever God's going to take him, that take them, that they're prepared to go into those places with the gospel of Jesus Christ, filled with the Spirit and with a great education to rub shoulders with people who don't know him and to make this world flourish.
[00:21:26] Speaker A: What is the official mission statement?
[00:21:28] Speaker B: The official mission statement is that Berean Christian High School exists to develop lifelong followers of Christ. Okay, right. And so, super interesting story. Well, the school is 57 years old. We had a reunion not too long ago where we invited the classes. Our first graduating class was in 1969. So we invited the classes from the late 60s and the 70s and the 80s to have a reunion, and they hosted it here at the school in our gym.
[00:21:57] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:21:58] Speaker B: And so they invited me to come. They invited me to speak. And, you know, I was able to talk about some things that I'm sure had changed, you know, in the decades that had gone by.
And I said, but, you know, so many great things are happening at the school. But I. I have to ask you. I said, because there's, you know, our mission statement is we develop lifelong followers of Christ. And I said, lifelong. I said, many of you in this room are in your seventh decade of life.
And I said, you've lived the better part of a lifetime after graduating from this school that has the same mission statement. The school that hasn't capitulated for 57 years. For 57 years, like, we've been doing it. We've been faithful.
Did it make a difference in your life?
Like, yes. Your home.
Yes. Your church. But did God use Berean Christian High School to help you walk with him for the better part of a lifetime? And it was. One of the biggest blessings in my career is I looked around the room and every head was nodding. Right. And how do you measure developing lifelong followers of Christ? Well, you have to ask people at the end of their. The tail end of their lives, did it matter? And so that's our data, is those heads nodding in that room. But of course, we have, you know, graduates every year who come back and tell us, you know, thank you.
Thank you for what you did, and thank you for what the Lord did, Lord. Thank you.
[00:23:33] Speaker A: Absolutely. And so it's about 400 students.
[00:23:36] Speaker B: Just.
[00:23:37] Speaker A: Just nine through 12.
[00:23:39] Speaker B: Nine through 1200 in each class. Yeah. The school is. It's just big enough to have to give students the full experience that they would have in a public school with a thousand kids. Right. We have the athletic offerings. We actually compete in the public school leagues, so that's cool. And we do just fine. We do just fine. We sometimes we even win state championships in, In. In the public school leagues.
And the CIF, the California Interscholastic Federation, we offer 17 advanced placement courses, which is what you get with a high school with 2,000 kids.
Our kids, year after year, perform at a very high level. Our pass rate on those 17 exams has been above 80% for over five years now.
We have great outcomes, and the school's small enough where students feel like they're known and respected and cared for in a great way. And here we are in the San Francisco Bay Area, Right? The belly of the secular beast.
High technology and high and very high rates of secularism in the way that you would describe that in this world where the significance, the things of God and the church has been on decline.
But for 57 years, this school has been, I don't know, maybe the apple of God's eye in this area and doing the work that we get to do every year. And God has been faithful.
And I know why. Because his name is on the school, you know, Berean Christian High School.
And God is invested in his name and reputation in the work that we do, which is building people.
[00:25:30] Speaker A: Yeah. And I remember the first time I heard of this school, I mean, I've got two boys that are both musicians and love music and all kinds of music. And it just so happened that Metallica was playing with the San Francisco Symphony 2019. And so my oldest son said, dad, can I. Can I go?
Graduation president from high school. And I said, okay, we'll see what that looks like. And I. And somebody said, you're going to be in the San Francisco area? I said, yeah. They said, you got to check out Berean Christian High School. And I thought, what?
There really is a true Christian school that has Christian in the name. This is wild. Okay. So I remember I reached out and I said, hey, I'm in the area. I'd love to just come by and say hello and meet you. And then I did, and I was blown away. And then I came back a year or so later and got to speak in chapel to the entire school.
And I remember how engaged those students were. The questions they asked afterwards. They were just so thoughtful and articulate and normal. You know, they weren't weird. It wasn't an insular place where your blinders on. It was just really open to discuss the big ideas and to see, you know, how does our faith inform and should inform our own lives, but the culture in which God's placed us to make a difference, to.
To create, to engage in a winsome way, to defend what you believe, but with gentleness and respect, but to really promote human flourishing for all people.
And that's what I've seen. And that's one reason why, as the years have passed, you know, I've stayed in touch.
And, you know, here we are six years later, sitting down, hearing more about it. And I think what's happening here is extraordinary. I really do.
And you've got some families, if I'm not mistaken, that are driving more than an hour each way to be part of this.
[00:27:27] Speaker B: Yeah, 57 years ago, the school started when seven Baptist churches got together, and they created the school for those families that were members of those churches.
But since then, our school has expanded. Now we have 87. 87 churches represented and 405 students.
And those students come from 39 different cities in the Bay Area.
And like you said, some of them are more than an hour away.
And that's without traffic.
And sometimes Bay Area traffic, you know, can extend that even close to two hours. We had a kid from Manteca, which is in the Central Valley, a couple years ago who drove to our school and through some horrible traffic to be here. And what that tells us is that our school has become a regional Christian high school, right? Not just a neighborhood Christian school, but one where people will, you know, sacrifice, you know, a lot of time to get their. Their kids Here, and. And it is a very special place. I remember, you know, years ago, I. When I was. I lived in Jacksonville, Florida. I was actually the member of a Southern Baptist church there. I played one year for the Jacksonville Jaguars football team. And I remember how everything in Jacksonville was Christian. You know, when you went to the barbershop, you know, it was. They had. They would play. They have Kade Love going on, and our kids were in a dance studio that, you know, it was Christian music that they danced to. And everywhere you went, it felt like you gained credibility for being a Christian. You know, at the church, you know, folks would do business deals with other Christians because they trusted them and they.
That was built into the culture in the South. And then. And then I moved to the San Francisco Bay area and felt like in a lot of ways, I lost credibility, you know, for being a Christian culturally.
And that's when I realized how important it is and how the Christians who are here. And again, God has. His people everywhere are here, and we're actually. It actually costs you something to be a Christian here, you know, and so it's. It's real, you know, yet nominal. Faith is everywhere in the world.
I think it's less so here because it actually costs you something.
[00:29:56] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:29:56] Speaker B: You know, and, you know, I don't know what that means, and as far as, you know, careers and things like that out in the world, but I know socially, you know, people. People think you're silly, but. But every time they spend with our kids, they. They realize, like, wow, something different. There's something different about these kids no matter where we go. We just had our. Our prom, you know, we just had our prom every year after prom, you know, we. We're. We're out in. In the world at a venue somewhere, and every single time, the venue comes back and says, your. Your school's different.
Like, what is it about your kids?
And we can say it's Jesus Christ, right?
And our school is different, and we love the work that we get to do, and we love sending our kids out into the world. Interesting story. Our school, we joined the Chamber of Commerce a couple years ago, and they had an event for new members and veteran members, and I was able to go. And they wanted every institution to introduce themselves and what they do.
So, you know, a few folks went before me. It was the new donut shop guy and the new gym down the street. And I got up and I said the following.
I said, I'm Nick Harris. I represent Berean Christian High School, an institution that's been in this area for 57 years. And I want to say, and I think this is a true statement, that I think we are the only member of the Chamber of commerce that gets excited about losing 25% of our customers every year.
Right. And it took them a second.
It took them a second and they realized. What I meant is we have a graduating class that we lose 25% every year. And we don't call them customers, we call them students.
And in reality, they're image bearers of Christ.
And the work that we get to do transcends our school.
Right. Because these kids are taking the gospel of Jesus Christ and being filled with the Holy Spirit into wherever God takes them in this world to be at it for him.
That's what I get to do for work. I don't know what you guys do for work. That's what I get to do. The looks on their faces, it was awesome. Yeah, it was really awesome.
[00:32:21] Speaker A: Well. And when it's authentic and lived out, it's hard to deny that there's something different.
And that being said, and you and I have talked about this over the years, but I will think about you in the school and what God's doing here. And when I do, I turn the thoughts into prayer. And I've even financially contributed along the way.
[00:32:41] Speaker B: Thank you.
[00:32:42] Speaker A: Because I know it's needed. And that being said, there's going to be a lot of people that listen to this or watch this and will probably initially be surprised to know there's a school like this and someone like you at the helm, which is clearly God's doing.
So how can people help you and help bere in this community? Tell, tell us what you need.
[00:33:05] Speaker B: Well, I mean, we, we exist because of prayer number one. That again, I I the God blesses us in ways that are just miraculous.
Year after year after year, he raises up teachers.
Every year there's a need and we don't settle anymore. Like when we know, like, you know, we have something's not right with, you know, with a hire, we sit on it sometimes until, you know, a week or two before school starts. Because we know and have come to trust that God is going to provide exceedingly, abundantly, more than we could ever ask for or imagine.
Because this is his school and his reputation's on it. And so year after year, he brings us better than we deserve.
You know, it's really, it's really sweet to watch. So, you know, anyone watching out there pray for Berean Christian High School in the belly of the beast, in the San Francisco Bay Area, you know, we've pivoted to what we're calling the next 50 years. You know, even though we're in year 57, you know, we're thinking long term. You know, I thought I told you about that reunion we had. You know, I think of, you know, 50 years from now, when I'm 97 years old, you know, maybe they're going to invite me to come back and address the graduates from the class of 2026, like, you know, and I'm going to ask them the same question. I'm going to ask him, you know, did it make a difference, you know, going to our school? And so we're trying to put the school in a great position for the next 50 years to just be solid.
And we need to refresh and remodel our buildings.
And we're looking at growing, we're looking at adding a few classrooms. And so we're in the midst of a capital campaign to do that very thing. Such as.
[00:35:02] Speaker A: Campaign.
[00:35:03] Speaker B: The campaign is $10 million.
And we've. In just over the course of a year, we're just about halfway there to that. We feel like the wind is at our backs, that the Lord is blessing everything we do. We feel like all we need to do is tell the story about the school, what God has done, what we're doing, and what the future looks like, and the path that he's leading us down. And anyone out there who's asking the Lord to steward his resources in the direction, you know, can. Can look on our website.
It's bereanchristian.com and look on our development page and our fundraising page. And if the Lord leads you, you can make a gift to our school.
[00:35:50] Speaker A: Yeah, And I'll put the link down in the description as well. And it may be that there may be somebody listening on other side of the country even that is inspired and wants to know more. And through that website can contact you and maybe have a conversation or just. And I would say come out here and check it out like I did, because it was much even more exciting and encouraging than I thought it would be. And I've watched this unfold over the years, and I just know that you're a man of integrity.
And I know as people are looking to you, you're just continually looking to the Lord.
And. And I just commend you for it. And I'm grateful.
[00:36:27] Speaker B: I'm flattered that you came to our school now for the third time.
It's always a blessing to see the school from someone else's eyes from a fresh perspective and someone like you who knows about Christian education and has a heart for it.
For you to come to our school and say the things that you've said about really is an encouragement and a blessing.
And yes, anybody, if you could check, my email is on the website as well. And I'd love to show you the, show you around and show you what we're doing.
[00:36:59] Speaker A: Absolutely.
[00:37:00] Speaker B: And if you're here on a Wednesday, I'd love to take you into a chapel to think that, you know, 10 o' clock on Wednesday mornings that we get to worship the Lord, that we get to gather together all in the gym to hear from his Word and then to be launched out back into the classrooms, but ultimately back out into the world for the glory of God.
Like, I couldn't, I couldn't think of a better job and I've played in the NFL.
[00:37:28] Speaker A: That's right.
[00:37:30] Speaker B: Than getting to lead this school.
[00:37:32] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, you're doing a great job. So we will continue to pray for you. And Nick, thank you.
[00:37:37] Speaker B: Thank you so much.
[00:37:38] Speaker A: And to be continued, we'll do it again.
[00:37:39] Speaker B: God bless you.
[00:37:40] Speaker A: You as well.
[00:37:41] Speaker B: Thanks so much.
