Abide Master Plan

How-To (Continued) SECTION 1: PREFACE SECTION 2: REFLECTION QUESTIONS—WHERE ARE WE AND WHERE DO WE WANT TO BE? We know the importance of reflective practice when it comes to improvement. This framework provides reflective questions for stakeholders to consider the spiritual culture of the school, church, and community — on both broad and personal levels. You are invited to reflect and respond to the questions in this document. Share honestly and without hesitation. Your responses will no doubt vary from year-to-year as you continue in your spiritual journey. If you are an educational leader, you are encouraged to meet with every teacher and non-teaching staff member, to enhance your working relationship, to provide support where necessary, to encourage, ask and share about your spiritual walk, and to pray together. This should happen every year as part of your Spiritual Master Plan. If all teachers, leaders and non-teaching staff members humbly and prayerfully submit their lives and work to God every year by abiding in Jesus, the fruit will grow in abundance. SECTION 3: THE SPIRITUAL MASTER PLAN—HOW WILL WE GET THERE? Once you have spent some time reflecting on your current practice on where you are in your personal and professional abiding and where you would like to be, you will be invited to use the Individual Spiritual Master Plan template to summarise your reflections in one essence statement for each of the five areas. Leaders, teachers, and other stakeholders will then share their reflections and collaborate to create a school-wide Spiritual Master Plan (template provided). Over time, you may want to summarise the school’s spiritual journey in a short reflection that celebrates your successes. A place for this is provided at the end of the School Spiritual Master Plan template. RESOURCES: OVERVIEW TABLES, IDEAS, AND SAMPLES In the Resource section of this Spiritual Master Plan Guide, you will find: 1. Three tables: • The first table outlines the heart of this plan with biblical evidence and research • The second table outlines general ways you and your school can abide and bear fruit • The third table provides a list of ideas and resources that will support you in the implementation of these suggestions 2. Resource materials • Here you will find numerous and practical samples of the ideas that were shared in the tables. The purpose of creating a Spiritual Master Plan is to think big-picture; to keep God’s ideal in mind — your personal salvation and that of His children. “To aid the student… in entering into that relation with Christ… should be the teacher’s first effort and his constant aim. The teacher who accepts this aim is in truth a co-worker with Christ, a laborer together with God.” (Ellen White, Education, p. 30) 4