Any programs important to Portland
Christian School is spiritual life.
I'm joined right now with the Spiritual
life director, Jacqueline Miles.
How are you doing today?
Good. Thank you.
Thank you so much for being here.
So tell me, why is this type
of programming important to
Portland Christian School? Well,
we love the Lord Jesus,
and he's the most important thing.
And we want him to be a
part of everything we do,
from our academics to our athletics.
We want him to permeate what we do.
And so teaching and training
and equipping our students
to love him and to serve him.
Every year of their life.
That's why we have a spiritual life program
here. And tell me what does that look like?
What does the spiritual life
program look like for students,
teachers, everybody involved? Sure.
So from preschool all the way to seniors,
we have daily Bible instruction and we
also have weekly Chapel services where
students can pray and worship together.
But really what makes it special is
watching the interactions between our
staff and our students and watching
their students faith just come alive
when they know their loved and seen and.
Three or four
years. And Speaking of which,
we have a student with us right now.
Introduce yourself, please.
My name is Lola.
I'm a senior here at Portland.
Awesome. So tell me, you know,
being here all four years, right?
What has that experience been like?
Tell me about how the world that
spiritual life plays in your life
here at Portland Christian School.
Yeah. Portland has a
special place in my heart.
I I've been able to practice here
in a safe place to explore who
I am in Christ and figure out,
you know, how he's designed me.
And through that,
I've figured out that I am going
to do. So I'm joined
with Betty Ann Schreiner.
She is a faculty member who's
led several mission trips here.
Portland Christian School,
which is amazing.
So tell me about that program.
What are some of the countries
that you all been to?
We have been to goodness, Mexico,
Latin in Latin America, Guatemala,
Honduras, Nicaragua, Russia.
So tell me more about the
program. How did it start?
We just had an opportunity that
was put in front of us and
we said sure, let's do that.
So then ask students to sign up
and they did and that started it
and we've been doing it ever since.
That's amazing. And I can what
does the participation levels?
I'm wondering how many students do you
all normally take on some of these trips?
It's different. Some years
it's five or six on one trip, then there
could be a dozen or 15 or something,
which is usually probably the largest.
Um, which is a good group because it's
a good group to get used to each other,
hang out, become family or bonded on that
trip together and support each other.
So that's a good size that we like to do.
It really is. And tell me so I know
that you mentioned several trips
that you have been on, but what is it
usually look like when you all go?
What type of things are you all doing?
OK, that's really hard to say what
because we've done so many things.
We have done construction trips
where we built houses in four days,
which was amazing for the kids.
We have done medical.
Missions where they go support
a medical team, that's there.
We've done teaching things where you
teach English as a second language.
We've done door to door evangelism
or just supporting small,
had a group that went to a city
dump and every day hung out there
and played with little kids.
So they've been a lot of things we've done
and that's life changing experiences
that I know that they'll never forget.
So I could imagine that's part of
the reason you all want to have
this type of programming, right?
Going out of the country in general
is eye opening for students.
But going out of the country as
believers and just putting yourself
in God's hands to what do you
want me to do today is completely
faith opening and opening their
eyes to who God is and the and the
greater world and what it is we're
supposed to be doing in the world.
So it is absolutely life
changing to students that go,
I believe it. So I know that you all
have an array of programs if parents are
wanting to learn more about the programs.
Will offer in just how to enroll?
What's the best place for them
to go to get that information? I
can go to the website and start
the process there and there's all
kinds of information for them.