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Leading With A Heart For God
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As the Principal of a public elementary school, Zac Bauermaster’s job is to inspire and empower his teachers, support staff, families, and—most importantly— the next generation every single day.
God has given us all gifts, talents and abilities. Zac feels it’s up to him to make sure his staff and teachers use their gifts to bring out the best in their students.
Zac’s approach to being a Principal was really shaped when he and his wife walked their oldest daughter to the bus stop for her first day of kindergarten.
“Her backpack was bigger than she was. I cried walking home with my wife, and I remember thinking, ‘we are sending the school our very best; we need our school to give her their very best.’” In order to do this in his elementary school, it’s his calling to create an encouraging school environment where adults want to work, kids are excited to learn, and families trust and are proud to send their children....
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A Complete Surrender
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Rock bottom was the place I called home at the age of 25.
I was well loved and well taught as a child. But by 19, I was birthing the beautiful, blonde-headed boy I would come to find as my temporary saving grace. Yet, I couldn’t seem to see past my own insecurities.
Instead of celebrating when 21 came around, I was fighting off an abusive husband who’d turn to aggression, force, and violence to control me. I mistook this as love.
As I turned 23, I had brought another life into the world with curls that even Shirley Temple would revere. As precious lives hung in the balance to be stewarded as gifts, the lies in my ears whispered, “undeserving.” There I was, in the prime of my twenties, with life pressing in around me as if its walls had a heartbeat and a desire to suffocate me. I chose hopelessness.
At 24, I was divorced, estranged from family, and barely....
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