JESM SDA

The difference between public schools and SDA Church schools is this: Public schools were designed to teach students to be productive and constructive citizens in this life. That’s it! SDA Church schools are God designed to go farther: We prepare students for this life and the one to come by using the Bible as our main textbook: “The word of God is to stand as the highest educating book in our world, and is to be treated with reverential awe. It is our guide book; we shall receive from it the truth. We need to present the Bible as the great lesson book, to place it in the hands of our children and youth that they may know Christ, whom to know aright is life eternal. It is the book to be studied by those of middle age and those who are aged.” Special Testimonies on Education p. 233

Because “children are a heritage of the LORD” (Psalm 127:3) and because parents are instructed to bring up that heritage “in the nurture and admonition of the LORD” (Ephesians 6:4), God has promised to add to us all the things that would fit our children to be productive citizens in this world, as they are fitted for the one to come. “… seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.” Matthew 6:33