0316 Alabaster Newsletter-WEB

Around Town
routes we are able to take on,” said Walters. The
hubs do not purchase and cook the food, but are
given a certain amount of food based on M4A’s
assessments and the hub’s ability to deliver. Once
that food is delivered, volunteers work quickly to
heat and package the meals for safe delivery.
Currently, the Alabaster Senior Center has 19
volunteer Meals on Wheels drivers who rotate
through two separate routes to deliver 16 different
meals, Monday through Friday, every week. They
also have a handful of volunteers who help warm
and package the meals.
Anyone is able to volunteer, Walters said. Potential
volunteers are encouraged to contact the
Alabaster Senior Center to see how they may help
with meal delivery. Anyone wanting to receive
home deliveries, or sign a family member up to
receive them, is encouraged to contact M4A.
Ways to get
INVOLVED:
• Put meals together
• Deliver meals
• Potential volunteers can call Alabaster Senior
Center: 205-663-1307
• M4A’s phone number is 205-670-5770
Apologetics at ECCS
by ECCS Seniors, Alex Herndon and Hannah Turner
26 cityofalabaster.com
“Apologetics is the bridge
between faith and intellect.”
-Bailey Vaughn
ECCS Senior
Grammar. Logic. Rhetoric. As ECCS students we
hear it all the time across the disciplines. In science,
in math, in
history, in literature
over and over again.
The what of the
subject—the “grammar”;
the how of the
subject—the “logic”;
and the why is it important—the
“rhetoric.”
The Trivium
of Grammar, Logic,
and Rhetoric provides
the basis for the model of education at Evangel
Classical Christian School. This model is as old as
the Middle Ages, and it’s one that we have found
works across all subjects and grade levels. Perhaps
in no other subject, however, is our classical education
more important to our future as human beings than in
our Bible classes. We have been learning the grammar of
the Bible—what it says—since we were in kindergarten. We
have been seriously examining how scripture can be applied
to all aspects of life since our seventh grade World View
Class. In 8th and 9th grades, we studied and Old and New
Testaments in depth, making applications of what the scriptures
say to how we should live. In 10th grade we learned
the history of the early church—how the Scriptures we
have today as the Holy Bible came together. In 11th grade,
we learned the doctrines of Christianity—who man is, who
God is, what sin is, and how it can be conquered through
salvation in Christ. Now in our twelfth grade World View
and Apologetics course, we are putting it all together learning
why we should care, why we should defend our faith,
and that we have been building a skill set all along that will
enable us to do that.
Creation. Fall. Redemption. “We didn’t even realize in
7th, 8th, 9th grades, studying Creation, Fall, Redemption
across every subject, or even when we studied Church history
and systematic theology, how it would all come together
this year in apologetics,” says senior Hannah Turner.
The other seniors in the group all nodded in agreement
when she said this, and the discussion turned to how since
they were very young, they have been learning that everything
has a beginning—a Creation, that a conflict always
arises—a Fall, and that every story, whether it is fictional or
true, every work of art, every piece of music, seeks to put it
right—the Redemption. ECCS students are all very familiar
with the term “meta-narrative.” The world meta-narrative
is the greatest story of the universe—the creation and fall
of man, and the redemptive power of the risen Christ, and
that meta-narrative is repeated over and over throughout
history and cultures.
Knowledge. Faith. Apologetics. Senior Bailey Vaughn
said, “Apologetics is the bridge between faith and intellect,”
says senior Bailey Vaughn, echoing our Apologetics teacher
Mr. Keelan Adams. We all understand this. What Mr.
Adams has taught us is that everything we know about the
Bible is useless unless we also have faith, but that knowledge
is essential to being able to defend the Gospel in a
world that is ever increasingly hostile to it. Together, however,
deep and growing knowledge and deep and growing
faith, set the stage for us to all be Christian apologists no
matter what careers we pursue.