Mission Moment

Dear Covenant Families, 

The Lord loves The Covenant School; I am convinced of it. When I had the great privilege of exploring our school’s history to celebrate our 30th anniversary, time and again I encountered miraculous instances where the school should have closed. It’s personal to me; my husband’s family helped start a Christian school in Dallas at the same time as Covenant’s founding, but it didn’t make it to its tenth year. Praise God that Covenant did! The Lord sustained our little school through hardship and uncertainty, through lean years and making-do. The early families will tell you how it kept them humble – the absolute desperate need for God to show up to sustain the faculty and educational experiment they were conducting. Eleven years after the school was founded, the Lord saw fit to provide this piece of land for our little school. And after 15 years of sojourning in rented spaces in churches and synagogues around Dallas, having separate campuses for upper and lower grades, the Lord made a way for Covenant to be one school, at home on this former Lambert’s nursery property, where instead of nurturing trees, it’s nurturing children.

The school still has needs, of course it does, but each wave of families has left their mark on our beautiful campus, adding a driveway and a playground and buildings over the years, completing just a little more our slice of heaven on earth.

My prayer is that the Lord uses each of us when we give to sustain Covenant’s mission, because Covenant exists to glorify God by equipping students with the tools necessary to pursue a lifetime of learning so that they may discern, reason and defend truth in service to our Lord, Jesus Christ. We know that this is His school and He has sustained it all along. There isn’t a lot of personal glory in giving to Covenant. Most families do it in very quiet ways, joyful to share what the Lord has entrusted to them and not seeking public recognition. I think the Lord gets the glory when we take up our part in Covenant’s story, and we seek to go deeper in our relationship with the Father by trusting Him with our earthly needs. May we, in our generation, continue to give our gifts to Covenant as to the Lord, with humility knowing it is His school, and gratitude knowing that He is the keeper of the storehouse of heavenly riches.

Non Nobis,

Holly Hook
Director of Development