The Future of Lincoln School
In the last few weeks you may have read or heard much about potential school closings and/or consolidations in the Huntsville City School system. Lincoln Elementary has been featured prominently in several of these articles and many have asked questions about how this may affect the work being done at Lincoln. This spring, a committee made a recommendation that Lincoln Elementary School be consolidated with Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary and that a new elementary school be built by 2011. The State department strongly disagreed as they see Lincoln as a role model for inner-city schools success. They feel that higher numbers would mean less success. In reality this is just a recommendation that has been made to the school board. Ultimately, they will make the decision on which schools are consolidated, when and where they will merge, and if new schools will be built. So again, how will this affect the work at Lincoln Village and Lincoln Elementary? The work that many of you are dedicated to being a part of?
Ephesians 3:20 says, “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever!” We know nothing is impossible with God! We are reminded that God is sovereign. He has ordered our days and our steps and his plan is perfect. Whatever the plan may be for Lincoln School, the children who learn there and the teachers who teach there, we know that God is in control. We have seen great and amazing things happen at Lincoln and we are confident that God’s hand is involved. John Stott says, “The power comes from him; the glory must go to him.”
What is our stand? As always, we ask that you bathe the Lincoln Village ministry in prayer. Our desire is that the people of God pray: for protection of the work and those who labor, for the school, for the School Board who will make final decisions, but most importantly for God’s plan to be accomplished. Isaiah 46:11 says, “What I have said, that will I bring about; what I have planned, that will I do.” That is our desire. We ultimately desire that God’s hand would be upon everything that happens at Lincoln and that His plan would be accomplished.