This last number of months has been a true adventure for Marian and myself as we have had the privilege of exploring this culture and island! We have come to love what it has to offer! But as with all things in life, there are beginnings and there are endings and it is to the latter that we have come.
Here we have had the privilege of meeting so many new friends - Cypriots, Australians, Serbians, Armenians, British, Welsh, German, Russian, Nigerian, Ghanaian, Sri Lankan, … each has touched our lives and made us richer for the experience. As exciting as it is to meet new people whom we quickly classify as friends, there comes a time to say goodbye and that is the difficult juncture at which we find ourselves this week.
Ours has been the privilege to serve colleagues at the academy and to find in them the opportunity to instill confidence, hope and a future! How confirming to see staff, students and parents look with satisfaction on new hope that is placed within the educational environment! Staff have come to see their profession in a new light where the dreams of being valuable and influencing the lives of the youth with whom we work have become a little more of reality! May this journey continue for them as they continue to work here and instill the knowledge which is so important in life today. I am convinced more than ever that the balance needs to be kept between knowledge in the broader sense and knowledge of character in the narrower sense which finds its roots in the unchanging Word of God! It is here that the principles which guide a life of fulfillment are found and what a treasure to be able to deposit these foundational concepts in our students!
So, as we come to the last days, we bid adieux to those we leave in a physical sense - they will remain part of our lives as along as life lasts! But we are not finished, there is more to come, DV, and it is to that which we look as we leave. Where is God going to open another door of service? When he closes one, I believe He opens another for continuing service to the Kingdom of God.
Thank you all for joining us on this journey and we trust that it has been more than just informative, but has allowed you to grow and see that wherever you are, you can still be active and learning and being of serivce to God. Continue to invest in the things which outlast this life because there is a life to come!
David and Marian
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