Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

God has been doing great things at CISP long before I arrived. One of those things was, last year, providing a new building. We are now able to be in one building, classrooms aren't in apartments, we don't share most of our space with another school, and we have room for our students. This is the first school year in this new building. Because of the hustle and bustle that comes along with the beginning of a school year, we were not able to officially celebrate the new building until this past Friday, October 18th.

The celebration included music from the secondary choir, a poem for a ninth grade student, words from our director, a speech from the mayor of Prague 2 (the district we are located in), and words from a certain parent about how much she has come to love our school. We invited parents, board members, the mayor, people from the Czech Board of Education, as well as employees from many different embassies. I, personally, met someone from the Indian Embassy. The U.S. Ambassador sent his regards, but was not able to make an appearance. These different people from all around our city were able to come and learn about what CISP is all about. And on top of everything, so many people commented on how great our students are. They were all so well behaved and polite. The elementary sat quietly through the entire ceremony, and the secondary students were making polite conversation with different groups of people before and after the ceremony. Let's just say that it was an especially great day to be a part of CISP.

Our fifth grade greeters.

High School Choir.

Praha (Prague) 2 Mayor... making a few jokes in the process :)

Our director, Mrs. Leslie Johnson (left) and one of our Czech teachers translating (right).

Sixth grade students handing out the programs.

Thanking those who were involved in making this whole thing happen. 

Elementary students eating their cupcakes.

More and more cupcakes for our social time afterward. 

Praises: 

1. The ceremony went well and more people were able to learn about our school and Who (Jesus) and what we are focused on. 
2. Our school was well represented during the ceremony, and people noticed. 
3. It was a long week, but God got us through it and provided for all the little things that we needed to make this event happen. 

Prayer Requests. 

1. Pray that deeper connections will be made with people like the mayor and employees of the embassies so we can one day be used by God to share the love of Christ with them. 
2. Pray that events like this one will make our school more well known and we would be able to get a few more students because of it. 
3. Please pray that, while Friday afternoon was a little chaotic, classes would go well starting right away Monday morning and that God would continue to be glorified in our classrooms (or gyms) :)