by Mike Orr, Canon for Communications, the Episcopal Church in Colorado

As a communications person in your church, you have an important job. Whether you are a volunteer or a full-time professional on staff, you are charged with communicating the mission of your church. Your job is to inspire and challenge people to grow deeper in their walk with Christ through the communications channels of the church.

As children grow up, they learn different things and encounter new experiences as they move from Kindergarten through College and on. The curriculum of each grade level has been carefully planned to build upon their previous learning and compounds to develop your children into adulthood. It is important that the educational system has a plan in place to grow the math skills of your children from grade to grade. If your First Grader is confronted with Algebra, they will be lost, as they don't have the foundation of Elementary Math to think abstractly in dimensional ways. If your Third Grader is asked to develop an English sonnet of their own, they won't understand the grammatical structure itself that defines what makes a sonnet a sonnet. Our experiences grow upon one another and produce growth.