Sarah`s Graduation
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Sarah`s Graduation
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Sarah`s Graduation
We are so proud of our Sarah! She graduated from Highschool in June of this year. She homeschooled most of her life using A-Beka and some Bob Jones material. Credit goes mostly to Mom who is a great teacher. She believes God has called her to be a missionary and plans on going to Bible college next summer!
We had 40 people show up for the graduation ceremony!
People from two churches and our neighbor friends
Sarah wih the Nunez family
Sarah with various friends from our neighborhood
Sarah and some church friends
Sarah giving speech!
Food and fellowship afterwards
Sarah`s graduation speech -- Dad did not help with speech!
Graduation Speech
I feel so honored to be chosen as the valedictorian(orador da turma?) of my class. Sadly, my classmates couldn't make it here because half or almost all of them live in Florida. First off, I want to thank each and every one of you that came here tonight for my graduation. I would also like to thank all of my video teachers for having so much patience with me as I either kept fast-forwarding or rewinding what they were explaining to me. My mom, in my opinion, is the best teacher anyone could ever have so I give special thanks to her for teaching me throughout most of my school years. I guess my dad also deserves a little credit in helping me too by saying, "Go to Mom, she should be able to help you with that problem." But on a more serious note both my dad and mom really helped me spiritually during my school years and still continue to help me. I couldn't have asked for better parents in my life and I appreciate them very much.
Well, enough about my parents and more about me since I'm the one graduating here! I can say for sure that I actually enjoyed my school years. I started out homeschooling and then went to a Christian school during my sixth and seventh years of school. I then went back to homeschooling with my wonderful mom as teacher once again. Sometimes people would say to me,"Don't you ever get out or go to different places?" The people that said this to me just didn't know how much fun my Christian life really was and still is. My life is full of adventures! I was born in Fortaleza, Ceara as an MK(missionary kid) and stayed there until I was about 3 yrs. old. I then got to experience drab Romania for 2 yrs. which was totally different from colorful Brazil! After we were eventually kicked out of Romania for trying to stay there with tourist visas, we returned to America. Long story short, although we tried to live a normal American life with my dad pastoring a small church, God evidently had other plans for us and put us back in Brazil. This is my life so far up until now.
I also want to give my salvation testimony and my plans for the future. Although my missionary parents had taken me to church ever since I was born, this didn't assure me a place in Heaven. There has to come a day in every person's life when he has to realize that he's a sinner and that he's in need of a personal Savior. I realized all of this when I was 8 yrs. old and on my Grandma's lap right then I asked Jesus to come into my heart. What unexplainable joy flooded my soul then! At 12 yrs of age I surrendered my life to the Lord as a missionary and I don't care where He sends me as long as I'm in His will. Billy Graham, a famous evangelist in the U.S.A. once said, "To know the will of God is the highest of all wisdom." I plan on going to Heartland Baptist Bible College in Oklahoma here in one year and study education and missions. My biggest desire is not to be rich or famous in the world but to know the perfect will of God for my life. Actually, it would be good if every Christian tried to strive for this goal! My prayer every day is "Lord, keep me in your will, so I won't be in your way."
Once again, I thank all of you all for coming here tonight. Thank you so much for your undivided attention.
I feel so honored to be chosen as the valedictorian(orador da turma?) of my class. Sadly, my classmates couldn't make it here because half or almost all of them live in Florida. First off, I want to thank each and every one of you that came here tonight for my graduation. I would also like to thank all of my video teachers for having so much patience with me as I either kept fast-forwarding or rewinding what they were explaining to me. My mom, in my opinion, is the best teacher anyone could ever have so I give special thanks to her for teaching me throughout most of my school years. I guess my dad also deserves a little credit in helping me too by saying, "Go to Mom, she should be able to help you with that problem." But on a more serious note both my dad and mom really helped me spiritually during my school years and still continue to help me. I couldn't have asked for better parents in my life and I appreciate them very much.
Well, enough about my parents and more about me since I'm the one graduating here! I can say for sure that I actually enjoyed my school years. I started out homeschooling and then went to a Christian school during my sixth and seventh years of school. I then went back to homeschooling with my wonderful mom as teacher once again. Sometimes people would say to me,"Don't you ever get out or go to different places?" The people that said this to me just didn't know how much fun my Christian life really was and still is. My life is full of adventures! I was born in Fortaleza, Ceara as an MK(missionary kid) and stayed there until I was about 3 yrs. old. I then got to experience drab Romania for 2 yrs. which was totally different from colorful Brazil! After we were eventually kicked out of Romania for trying to stay there with tourist visas, we returned to America. Long story short, although we tried to live a normal American life with my dad pastoring a small church, God evidently had other plans for us and put us back in Brazil. This is my life so far up until now.
I also want to give my salvation testimony and my plans for the future. Although my missionary parents had taken me to church ever since I was born, this didn't assure me a place in Heaven. There has to come a day in every person's life when he has to realize that he's a sinner and that he's in need of a personal Savior. I realized all of this when I was 8 yrs. old and on my Grandma's lap right then I asked Jesus to come into my heart. What unexplainable joy flooded my soul then! At 12 yrs of age I surrendered my life to the Lord as a missionary and I don't care where He sends me as long as I'm in His will. Billy Graham, a famous evangelist in the U.S.A. once said, "To know the will of God is the highest of all wisdom." I plan on going to Heartland Baptist Bible College in Oklahoma here in one year and study education and missions. My biggest desire is not to be rich or famous in the world but to know the perfect will of God for my life. Actually, it would be good if every Christian tried to strive for this goal! My prayer every day is "Lord, keep me in your will, so I won't be in your way."
Once again, I thank all of you all for coming here tonight. Thank you so much for your undivided attention.