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| Moms Debbie Blackburn and Aurelia Moss enjoy a weekly meeting.
Mrs. Moss, our SCPS College Counselor, has one child in Daycare and one in Kindergarten at SCPS. |
With a vision to start a Christian school, in January 1951, George and Harold Deane Akins asked God to provide the $10,000 necessary to start the school. By January 31, 3:30 pm, $8,500 had been pledged. The couple held a prayer meeting attended by several others and the group was on their knees praying when the telephone rang. Still kneeling, George reached over and answered it. On the other line was Waldo Bradley, owner of Bradley Plywood Company, who asked to visit the property where the couple envisioned the school. George left immediately to personally escort Mr. Bradley. During their time together, nothing was said about the needed funding but as Mr. Bradley left, he said, “George, put me down for $1,500 for the new school” – the exact amount needed. Thus, Savannah Christian Preparatory School (SCPS) was born.
From that beginning, our school has always included students, administrators, faculty, staff and families who believe King David’s words written in 500 B.C., “Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart” (Ps. 37:4, RSV) and the Apostle Paul’s instructions in 55 A.D. to “devote yourselves to prayer” (I Cor. 7:5, RSV). Prayer has been and continues to remain an integral part of the student curriculum and life of SCPS at every level.
For example, consider our Moms In Touch groups. Affiliated with Moms In Touch International,
groups consist of two or more moms who meet for one hour each week to pray for their children, schools, teachers, and administrators.
| Moms In Touch (www.MomsInTouch.org)
was founded in 1984 by Fern Nichols when her two oldest children were entering junior high. She knew they would be facing great tests that would undermine their faith. She cried out to the Lord asking Him for protection, clear answers to pressure and good decisions. The burden to intercede for her boys was overwhelming. She asked God to give her another mom who felt the same burden, and who would be willing to pray with her concerning their children and their school. God led her to another mom who shared her burden and soon others were invited for weekly prayer meetings. Today, there are Moms In Touch groups in every state of the United States, and representatives in over 110 foreign countries around the world. Mrs. Nichols is the author of “Every Child Needs A Praying Mom.”
Mom's In Touch purpose is to:
- To stand in the gap for our children through prayer.
- To pray that our children will receive Jesus as Lord and Savior, then stand boldly in their faith.
- To pray for teachers and staff.
- To pray that teachers, administrative staff, and students would come to faith in Jesus Christ.
- To provide support and encouragement to moms who carry heavy burdens for their children.
- To pray that our schools may be directed by Biblical values and high moral standards.
- To be an encouragement and a positive support to our schools.
Find out more about our SCPS
Moms In Touch groups. |
 | Liz Albert and Ruth Ann Yancey |
"Moms In Touch isn’t just for moms,” says Ruth Ann Yancey. “Its for any woman relative of a student — mothers, sisters, grandmothers, aunts.”
Married to SCPS Headmaster Roger Yancey for 36 years, Ruth Ann is committed to encouraging prayer at SCPS. Moms In Touch (Chatham Parkway) meets weekly at her home on campus.
“At our meetings, we gather and pray for our children in school and the school itself. Your child could be in preschool or high school, it doesn’t matter.”
In fact, at a recent gathering, Liz Albert spoke about how Moms In Touch has blessed her and her family throughout the years. Mrs. Albert, active in Moms In Touch for years, has SCPS graduates in the 1988, 1991, 1995 and 1999 classes. Her first grandchild is now in Pre-Kindergarten.
“We [at Moms In Touch] won’t know every student for whom we are praying,” she says. “But in faithful obedience we lift them up in faith and know that God is working in their lives and ‘it availeth much’.
“Yes! We have prayed all kinds of prayers,” adds Debbie Blackburn, who has hosted meetings at her home for several years and has a 2001 graduate as well as a fifth grader. “The friendships and bonds and that level of trust with other moms have really blessed my family’s life.”
Inger Prescott who has three SCPS students — 10th, 9th, and 6th — explains how meetings, which take about an hour, are held. “We are very structured, but there’s freedom in the structure.”
There is a time for praise, confession, thanks, and finally requests, all in an hour. “We pray for our children, other students, teachers—especially those who do not know the Lord—the board, administration, staff members, even our Moms In Touch moms,” Mrs. Prescott notes. “Then we move into happenings at the school…protection during field trips, outings and athletic events, to name a few.”
Mrs. Lucy Brannen, principal of the lower school, has said, “Our children are in a daily battle. The Christian worldview is preeminent to all other beliefs, but Christian students in public school are not allowed to express that. Even in a Christian school, Satan is unbelievably subtle. Stay in your child’s face. Give them an excuse to say no and never give up on your child’s needing direction, no matter their age.”
Mrs. Albert concurs, “Prayer is a vital part of the warfare.”
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