Dr. Mark Hedger

A few years ago, I had the privilege of helping plan the very first Leadership Summit for the Association of Christian Administrators (ACA) in Phoenix. It was an exciting season—vision meetings, speaker calls, schedule drafts, sponsor conversations, prayers over details both big and small. We weren’t just organizing another conference. We were asking the Lord to knit together Christian school administrators from across the country into something deeper than a professional network. We were...

My first year of teaching over thirty years ago was at a school district located in the same town as Whiteman Air Force Base, home of the B-2 Stealth Bomber. I was a young guy from just outside of Kansas City who had barely been out of the state, and suddenly I found myself teaching primary grade level children who had lived all over the world. These were seven and eight-year-olds casually dropping comments like, “When we lived in Germany…” or “When we were in France…” I remember feeling a...