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  1. I'm kristen with that busy.
  2. I came to lake country as a student in the fall of 1987.
  3. Um, it's one of the first times I remember making a decision of faith.
  4. I finished sixth grade at a public school and knew I could not go into seventh grade.
  5. I had friends who were students at
  6. Lake Country and had attended Lake Country musicals
  7. for the elementary school and I knew that was where I needed to be.
  8. And I remember coming home and telling my mom it's
  9. time to fill out registration for seventh grade and I,
  10. I can't, I can't go to that public school. And she said, well let's pray about it.
  11. And so she and I continued to pray for months.
  12. Um, and the week before school started, my dad came in and said,
  13. let's let's call that principle.
  14. And suddenly the desire of my heart came true and I came to Lake
  15. Country in seventh grade as a wounded um little girl With very little confidence and
  16. I found friendships that have spanned 40 years almost and I found teachers who
  17. loved me and cared for me and prayed with me and prayed for me.
  18. And it became a place where I have blossomed
  19. and grew late country allowed me those opportunities to
  20. be involved in a way that I might not have had in a much larger public school.
  21. God began to do something in my heart as I went on
  22. my first mission trip as an adult and something changed in me.
  23. I remember coming home.
  24. We have been to England Scotland and Romania and a world
  25. wind 13 day trip and sitting on the plane coming home,
  26. I knew that my life had been changed and that opened
  27. the door for me to begin doing more missions work.
  28. I became the missions coordinator like country and led a total of 27 mission trips
  29. um all over the world
  30. and
  31. getting to have those moments but getting
  32. to experience them with students and watch
  33. students have that aha moment as they understood that God was bigger than America.
  34. Um the God didn't just speak english.
  35. Those were the moments that were so pivotal and and shaping in in my life.
  36. It's funny when I went away to college and I would come home for the weekend,
  37. I really worked hard to always get back to the lake country before
  38. school got out to see my friends who were still there to see teachers
  39. who meant so much to me and uh there was always a sweet
  40. moment of walking in the door and seeing my mom there at her desk
  41. and knowing that
  42. it just made everything right with the world.
  43. If you're thinking about enrolling your kids at LCCS,
  44. um LCCS cannot save your child, LCCS cannot create the perfect environment.
  45. LCCS is not without challenges.
  46. Um kids are kids
  47. and citizen,
  48. but if you're looking for a place for your
  49. child to be surrounded by Godly men and women
  50. who love the Lord first and have a passion
  51. for teaching and instilling that love in your students,
  52. then this is the place for you.
  53. If you want a place where you can become a part of a family to walk alongside you as you
  54. equip your child for what God has called them to do and who God has called them to be.
  55. The LCCS is a place for you.
  56. Okay,
  57. mm hmm.