By LIZZIE BOWEN | Workers Author

PELHAM – Hope Christian College celebrated its class of 2023 within the thirty third annual commencement ceremony on Thursday, Could 18.

The ceremony was held at Church of the Highlands Riverchase with many excited graduates in attendance.

Pastor Dan Atchison opened the ceremony with a prayer for the commencement ceremony and the scholars of their upcoming endeavors.

“Lord, what a privilege it’s to face in Your home,” Atchison. “You didn’t have to save lots of us, however You probably did. Thanks for Who you’re. You maintain the best place in our lives. My prayer tonight is that on this milestone second when these college students step throughout this stage, that Your Hand of safety can be upon them.”

Rev. Atchison and his spouse Connie Atchison partook within the Presentation of Management to college students current. The recipients had been:

-Courtney Shirah

-Skylin Boyd

-Lydia Holsomback

-Zachary Fogelgren

The Testimony and Affect Awards had been offered to:

-Jackson Exhibits

-Kayla Martin

-Victoria Miller

-Samaria Batten

“Yearly, the senior class has a theme,” Atchison stated. “This 12 months’s theme has been ‘anchor.’”

Atchison then shared the Scripture Hebrews 6:19: “This hope we now have as an anchor of the soul, a hope each certain and steadfast.”

Atchison additionally shared Psalm 112:7: “They may haven’t any worry of dangerous information; their hearts are steadfast trusting within the Lord.”

He commented additional on why this theme of “anchor” was essential to the graduating class of 2023.

“An anchor is one thing that gives steadfastness,” Atchison stated. “Whenever you consider anchor, you often image the heavy object that’s tied to a ship by a sequence or a rope. It retains that boat safe as a result of it’s hooked up to the physique. In Scripture, the time period anchor is used metaphorically to symbolize God, our religion and Jesus Christ. That retains us steadfast. It provides us hope throughout life’s challenges.”

The Dedication to Service award was offered to:

-Kimber Quinn

-Charles Hawthorne

-Emma Story

-Joshua Kelly

Class Secretary Kayla Martin as current to share her testimony with these in attendance and communicate on what Hope Christian College has meant to her.

“We’ve all waited for at the present time to come back,” Martin stated. “And we’re lastly right here. We might not all come from the identical background or have the identical story, however we do have one factor in frequent. In lower than an hour, 122 of us will formally be highschool graduates.”

Martin shared her story of residing with sickness and well being points which finally lead her to homeschooling.

“My faculty profession has been removed from simple and has not turned out something like I assumed it might,” Martin stated. “As a result of varied well being points, I’ve confronted many challenges and struggles all through the years. The whole lot I’ve been by means of has taught me to depend on God and has performed an enormous half in turning me into the particular person I’m right now.”

Salutatorians at Hope Christian College had been:

-Camden Gregory Harper

-William Edward Foster

-John David Baize

-Stephen Thomas Caudle

Valedictorians had been as listed under:

-Jensen Ezekiel Fallin

-Angelica Pleasure Vercher

-Jessica Elizabeth Fleischmann

-Jonathan Lance Kelly

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