{"id":3293,"date":"2018-01-09T08:46:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T13:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/school\/?p=3293"},"modified":"2018-01-09T08:46:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T13:46:13","slug":"we-all-want-to-belong-somewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/school\/we-all-want-to-belong-somewhere\/","title":{"rendered":"We all want to belong somewhere&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Community. \u00a0We highly value it here at Faith Christian School. We value community among our staff, among our parents, and among our students.<\/p>\n<p>But there is another type of community we want to foster here at FCS, even though it takes place outside the four walls of our school. The community we want to foster outside our school is the community of being involved in a local church.<\/p>\n<p>We all want to belong somewhere. At FCS, We believe one of those \u201csomewhere\u201d for each of our students and their families should be in a local church. In fact, we value the community of the local church so highly that <em>we ask parents to commit to being involved in a local church when they enroll students at FCS<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>We are grateful to have over 100 different local churches represented in our student body. We believe God is using churches all over our community to share and show the hope of the Gospel revealed in Jesus Christ. And we believe it is vital for each of our students and school families to be deeply connected to a local church.<\/p>\n<p>Below is an article from The Gospel Coalition discussing the urgency of being committed to regular church attendance <strong>and the impact it can have in your family<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/kevin-deyoung\/the-scandal-of-the-semi-churched\/\">https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/kevin-deyoung\/the-scandal-of-the-semi-churched\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community. \u00a0We highly value it here at Faith Christian School. We value community among our staff, among our parents, and among our students. But there is another type of community we want to foster here at FCS, even though it takes place outside the four walls of our school. The community we want to foster&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/school\/we-all-want-to-belong-somewhere\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":3295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>We all want to belong somewhere... - Faith Christian School Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/school\/we-all-want-to-belong-somewhere\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"We all want to belong somewhere... - Faith Christian School Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Community. \u00a0We highly value it here at Faith Christian School. 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