The fields around Lustre are full to brimming with harvest-ready crops: wheat, yellow peas, lentils, canola and hay bales are sitting ready to be hauled. Cows are munching on lush summer grasses from all the unusual rain. Tractors and trucks are moving about the fields in a dance of to-and-fro. In Lustre, harvest is a season. Harvest involves the entire family, and often hired workers, to gather in the crops. Although we have the luxury of modern equipment, it takes many hands to get the job done right.

It is that time of year again. Summer break is over and school classes are beginning. Our young children still love the excitement of buying supplies, new clothes, and backpacks. Students make goals for the year and look forward to the activities and extra-curricular events. Each year brings new opportunities, new friends, and new possibilities.

This Sunday, August 21, the LCHS Dorm opens for students. American students come from

all over the country for a new perspective. Our international students come for an English education in an American context. And what a better place than Lustre, Montana! Here where we celebrate family, hard work, Godly principles, and educational excellence. At LCHS students can blossom in a culturally rich environment as they grow to be independent young adults.

So as the farmers wrap up their season, our students are embarking on a new adventure. Each school year builds on the last to create the ground work for success. At LCHS we involve all aspects of life in the learning spectrum: physical, emotional, spiritual and mental. Our goal is to guide our students to maturity as they pursue the courses that will lead them into their adult life. At the very core of those goals is a Christ-centered foundation.

Just as harvest takes many hands, so the Lustre community pitches in to support LCHS and the dorm through financial giving, physical help, prayer, hosting students, planning events, and more. Lustre has a big heart and we are blessed to be a part. We look forward to this coming 2016-2017 school year and pray that God will bring us those students he has prepared for this time and place. “For he is able to do exceedingly, abundantly more that we could ask or think…”

“The chief beauty about time

is that you cannot waste it in advance.

The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,

as perfect, as unspoiled,

as if you had never wasted or misapplied

a single moment in all your life.

You can turn over a new leaf every hour

if you choose.”

― Arnold Bennett