What goes around, comes around for KingsWay School

KingsWay School is celebrating its 30th anniversary this month (HM September 1) and its founder, Graham Braddock sent in his reflections on how things have turned full circle:

“In 1985 I had a sense that we should start a Christian school. The leaders of the Methodist Church in Red Beach took the vision under their wing and offered the church manse as a temporary school building. This enabled KingsWay School to get started.

We prayed, worked hard, God provided, and the school began with 10 students aged from five to seven years.
In 1990 KingsWay shifted to its own site in Jelas Rd.

Since that time the school has grown steadily and now has a junior and senior campus and a roll of 1200. The experience gained over the years has resulted in the KingsWay Trust being able to be responsible for similar schools in greater Auckland.   

This year, the local group (now named Gateway Church) that provided KingsWay School with its first home, itself came ‘home’ to KingsWay’s senior campus and now holds Sunday shared meals and meetings in the staffroom.

In that sense, the relationship between the school and church has come full circle and Gateway Church feels very privileged to now be under KingsWay’s roof.”