COVID-19: Coronavirus Information
April 27, 2020 Update
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Good morning, Maranatha,
I wish to share with you an announcement that we all have been expecting and yet hoping would not come to pass: We will finish the school year with our campus closed and continuing through final exams on the eLearning format. If a miracle were to happen and we were able to open our campus prior to then, we would do so. However, that does not appear to be a possibility at this point.
All events and activities scheduled for the remainder of the school year are either canceled, postponed, or will be done in a virtual environment that is allowed under the “Safer At Home” Order. I will be reaching out to our senior parents later this week to share our plans for moving forward with Baccalaureate, Graduation, and how we will celebrate our graduating seniors in new and hopefully exciting ways.
Though our campus continues to be closed, our school continues. I was very encouraged by our first official MHS Life event this past week. We enjoyed a time of chapel and encouragement on Minuteman TV with Mr. Parker, followed by our Advisory groups meeting on Zoom. We will continue to develop and implement ways to maintain “school life” as we complete the school year online.
During this time, we continue to improve our campus by:
- Completing the HAVC for the PE/PA Building
- Progressing with the renovation of the AC Building - to be completed this summer
- Making several improvements to the gymnasium to enhance student life
- Beginning to plan for improvements to the Student Center with the funds raised at the Gala
We live in exciting, challenging, and very different times. Take courage and embraced the future that God has for us! Paul has some great words of encouragement for us found in Philippians 3:12-16.
"Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let us, therefore, as many as are perfect, have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you; however, let us keep living by that same standard to which we have attained."
Be strong and courageous!
John Rouse
Head of School
