One year, while teaching at the combined French-speaking/French Immersion school, I had a very interesting student in my class. He never did any homework, and he liked to destroy anything and everything, especially the work done by other students. As you can imagine,...
For all practical purposes, it was an ordinary day in the life of a Grade 7 teacher. My classroom was full of 30 French Immersion students, all eagerly working to do their best. Then I heard the page: "Mr. Chaffart, you have a phone call in the office." Puzzled,...
This wasn't anything that could strike terror in my heart more than the news of an upcoming teacher's strike, and when this particular strike was actually illegal, it made me very upset. I didn't feel comfortable striking in the best of times, but there was no way my...
Last week I told the story of how an illegal teacher’s strike led to my principal and his family all coming to know the Lord, as well as opening the door for a Bible club in an elementary public school.Being allowed to have a bible club, however, isn’t quite the same...
On Friday, we saw how God opened the doors for a Bible club in an elementary public school; and how by letting God be in charge, that Bible club went on to draw many to God's kingdom. Unfortunately, however, the principal who had allowed the bible club in the first...
Over the past two devotionals, I have told the story of the Bible club that I was allowed to have in a public elementary school in southern, Ontario, Canada. There is one more lesson involving the Bible club that bears telling...Even after the change in principals,...
It was in the midst of the most glorious days of Bible club at my public elementary school that God began to give me that "heavenly nudge". Something was about to change, and I shouldn't fight it.It all began one day in the car. After leaving my class in the hands of...
