A good way into college, I can’t help but acknowledge the significant foundation and advantage New Covenant has given me. It is a comparatively rigorous education and is modeled on quite a well-tested, classical tradition. However, my years at New Covenant did something more for me than prepare me for entering college and the workforce, give me the right, Christian answers, or even shield me from pagan, cultural influences – it led me to a personal encounter with the Lord of all things. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; God formed everything by himself and for himself; Scripture is the ultimate authority for all learning; God’s way is the only one that leads to life – each year my teachers and our studies pressed those truths upon my heart more and more until they were inescapable. We weren’t forced to choose it or to believe it or to love it – that never works. But I thank God that my parents sent me to a school where all these things were asserted. And I could not have received a more sure footing – for college or career, for relationships, for life.