Upper School students welcomed back alumnus Bobby Boggs (’15) representing YWAM (Youth with a Mission) who shared about his ministry experiences since graduating from ACS. After spending time in dark and dangerous Poipet, Cambodia, Boggs returned home to take a staff position with YWAM Ocean City. “We’re trying to help our local communities connect to provide help for places like Atlantic City,” Boggs said. He then introduced fellow YWAM missionaries Nathi and Pholile Maneli from South Africa. Nathi, a pastor in the large South African city of Port Elizabeth, and his wife, Pholile, a professional filmmaker, have a ministry of “redeeming media” in an effort to combat human trafficking. Sharing from Psalm 23 and the story of King David’s early life, the Manelis encouraged students that, “God is after our hearts, not our looks.”
Preschool and kindergarten students learned all about the “attitude gyro” and the “direction indicator” — two important navigation instruments in an airplane cockpit — from today’s chapel speaker and 28-year veteran American Airlines pilot Carl Erlandson, pictured below. Erlandson used the example of the cockpit instruments as the basis of his spiritual lesson, which encouraged the students to respect and obey their parents, teachers, and the Bible. “I need to pay attention to the instruments in my cockpit to fly my plane in the right direction, just like you need to pay attention to your parents, your teachers, and the Bible to guide you to do what is right,” said Erlandson, whose wife, Karan, teaches said the PreK3A class.