Learn about the Kids Saving the Rainforest help raise money to assist us in protecting our rainforests and helping the animals who make the rainforest their home.
Job 12:7-10 But ask the animals, and they will teach you; or birds of the air and they will tell you; or speak to the earth and it will teach you; or let the fish of the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the lord has done this. In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.
God Teaches Humans Through Nature – Romans – 1:19-20 – Isaiah 11:9
The sons of Adam are limbs of each other; Having been created of one essence. When the calamity of time affects one limb; The other limbs cannot remain at rest. If thou hast no sympathy for the troubles of others; Thou art unworthy to be called by the name of a human.
The earth and all things on it should be used responsibly to sustain the human family. However, all are stewards — not owners — over this earth and its bounty and will be accountable before God for what they do with His creations
Our Mission Statement“ To provide an opportunity for ecologically minded individuals to reside within the treetops of a unique rainforest ecosystem while promoting the conservation of species and the natural environment”
New Colossus by Emma Lazarus’ “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
Texans for American Family Education Civil Rights and Liberties
Exerts from Ted Kennedy’s Speech October 3, 1969
“The critics of official prayer in public schools are not “Pharisees”; many of them are both civil libertarians and believers, who think that families should pray more at home with their children, and attend church and synagogue more faithfully.”
“There are four tests which draw that line and define the difference.
First, we must respect the integrity of religion itself.
Second, we must respect the independent judgments of conscience.
Third, in applying religious values, we must respect the integrity of public debate.
Fourth, and finally, we must respect the motives of those who exercise their right to disagree.”
The Leader News wrote an interesting article about a well known friend of Waltrip High School. You may recognize the man as the Head Ram and beloved friend to many Jon Enloe the Waltrip Alumni Association founder and chairman of the board.