Barnhart School

Barnhart School

Founded in 1959, Barnhart is a CAIS accredited K-8 school founded by The Santa Anita Church. While not a religious educational school per se, students recognize and enhance their spirituality through daily chapel, and in the focus given to values, morals, and ethics. Many of the world’s major religions are represented in the student body. Originally dubbed The Santa Anita Church Day School, the school delivers an unparalleled education in an atmosphere of respect and love that encourages independence and self-responsibility. Each child is challenged to his or her maximum potential, with a heavy emphasis on self-discipline and self-direction within a guided framework. Every experience offers lessons not just in the rigorous curriculum of reading, writing, mathematics, science, music, drama, and art, but of the natural world, the inner world of the self, and the world of one’s relationships with others.

The Barnhart School helps each child to develop a healthy, wholesome, and positive self-concept based on real achievement, as well as relationships with peers and with adults that prepare the child for the various social roles that will be encountered throughout life.

The Barnhart School
240 West Colorado Blvd.
Arcadia, CA 91007
Phone: 626-446-5588
Web: http://www.barnhartschool.org

September 2023 Theme – Returning Home
As we walk this journey in life, we can, at times, be tossed and turned by conditions and circumstances. We can, occasionally, get thrown off course and lose our way. We can, now and again, forget who we are. Has anything like that ever happened to you? If it has, then this month will serve you in a profound way as we Return Home, home to the Source of All Good. September 3 – Returning Home to the ChangelessThis Sunday, we build our foundation for handling change—any kind of change, whether it’s the type of change that causes us to say “Thank Goodness” or “Goodness, No!” Using Jesus’ analogy of the man who built his house on solid rock, we return home to the ever-present, unchanging Power of God. September 10 – Returning Home to PeaceIn this Sunday’s world, there is a lot of talk about peace. Actually, there is a lot of talk about the absence of peace and the turmoil that surrounds us. These conversations are often accompanied by blame of corporations, countries, governments, or rebel factions for being the cause. But is that true? As spiritual people, we know intellectually that peace begins with us, but do we actually live that it our hearts? This Sunday, we return home to Peace with some powerful ideas and practices that will live long past today’s service. September 17 – Returning Home in FaithWe could all benefit by returning home in faith, couldn’t we? The real question is: faith in WHAT? We all have a lot of faith, but in what do we have faith? Often times, especially in challenging times, our faith in misplaced. This Sunday, we return home to a faith in the beneficence of God, in the Unity of all life and in the integrity of the Universe. Come this Sunday and test your faith! September 24 – Returning Home to Truth (Rev. Gina)We round out our month of Returning Home by returning home to Truth, the Spiritual Truth that when we keep our eyes lifted to Spirit we can create miracles, we can attain lofty goals and dreams and we can create day-to-day lives that simply work better! This Month’s AffirmationToday I return home to the Divine that I am as I see beyond appearances and see only God in all situations. I return home to the knowing that God is the Source of all my Good. Today, I return home to Truth.
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