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| Emmanuel (3rd from left) with other students participating in Model United Nations (M.U.N.) |
God has always been watching over my life
My name is Emmanuel, I’m in grade 11, and I’ve been in ICS for 5 years now so I’ve been since middle school. First, I want to share about how God has always been watching over my life. Before I was even born, doctors suggested my parents to abort me because they detected hormonal disorders in me. Since then I've also been through asthma, concussions, fractures, pneumonia, collapsed eye muscle, scabies, and amazingly I am alive and well. God has carried me for my entire life through and today I can do all that I can because of His providence for me. God has been protecting and guiding me all my life and education is no exception.
For all of primary school, I studied at another Christian international school that virtually gave me no academic stimulus. My parents paid the tuition and I went to school every day since that’s the law! But I basically learned everything at home. When I began to reach higher grades, my parents began to be worried about my education and wanted to move me to ICS because of its strong academic program and Christian setting. The waiting list was already very long back then, but my parents prayed and somehow I got in.
My name is Emmanuel, I’m in grade 11, and I’ve been in ICS for 5 years now so I’ve been since middle school. First, I want to share about how God has always been watching over my life. Before I was even born, doctors suggested my parents to abort me because they detected hormonal disorders in me. Since then I've also been through asthma, concussions, fractures, pneumonia, collapsed eye muscle, scabies, and amazingly I am alive and well. God has carried me for my entire life through and today I can do all that I can because of His providence for me. God has been protecting and guiding me all my life and education is no exception.
For all of primary school, I studied at another Christian international school that virtually gave me no academic stimulus. My parents paid the tuition and I went to school every day since that’s the law! But I basically learned everything at home. When I began to reach higher grades, my parents began to be worried about my education and wanted to move me to ICS because of its strong academic program and Christian setting. The waiting list was already very long back then, but my parents prayed and somehow I got in.
ICS lets me ask questions without apprehensions
Through these five years, I can see why God chose to put me in this school. ICS is a community where I can experiment and ask questions without apprehensions. I am naturally cynical and inquisitive, so I like to challenge things before believing them; especially religious topics. If you propose something - PROVE IT! I've always had strong doubts about God growing up but now my faith is firm. The school doesn't just force Christianity upon us, they downplay facts, testimonies, theories, and traditions in every class, especially science class, to allow us students to analyze the truths about God for ourselves. This humanistic approach to comprehending God encourages us student to be critical thinkers, which also explains the academic competitiveness of our school. Furthermore basically everyone tries their best to love each other. I believe that is most important because most schools can brag about building knowledge, but ICS can brag about building friendships and character.
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| Emmanuel playing music for kids during his High School Week-Without-Walls service trip in the Philippines |
ICS facilitates me to reach my goal
As for my future, I want to get into a good university, marry a girl and make her the happiest woman alive, become a doctor, and just heal people. Not only physically, but also spiritually, emotionally, and in whatever way I can, because I see a lot of pain in this world, and I don’t like it. I've obviously experienced some of it myself, and I know it’s my calling from God to be a healing hot spring for him. And yes – ICS facilitates me to reach this goal.
As for my future, I want to get into a good university, marry a girl and make her the happiest woman alive, become a doctor, and just heal people. Not only physically, but also spiritually, emotionally, and in whatever way I can, because I see a lot of pain in this world, and I don’t like it. I've obviously experienced some of it myself, and I know it’s my calling from God to be a healing hot spring for him. And yes – ICS facilitates me to reach this goal.
