God Answered Our Prayer About Tuition Funds

This summer I started the “SVA Parent Village” Facebook group to support and uplift our Shenandoah Valley Academy (SVA) students, parents, faculty and staff, and recently shared the following experience of how God’s tender care and leading  provided the way for my twin sons to attend SVA.

Story by Melissa Reinoehl

Our family regularly spends time remembering how God has answered our prayers and strengthened us to get through situations, shown us a way or helped us learn and grow. After our two boys, Joshua and Matthew, graduated from eighth grade, we spent a lot of family time in prayer deciding whether we could afford to send them to SVA. We wanted our boys to attend, but the expense was daunting.

One evening I asked my husband how much extra money it would take every year for our boys to attend. After crunching the numbers, he gave me a figure. In worship that night, I specifically shared the number with the whole family, and we continued to pray God would show us a way forward.

The next day, my husband called me, almost in shock, and said his boss had given him an unexpected raise. I asked him how much, and it was the exact amount, to the dollar, we needed to send the boys to SVA. We felt so overwhelmed and thankful in this immediate answer to prayer.

Thinking about it still makes me go weak in the knees. We hear of God answering prayers for missionaries in times past, but somehow, many get the impression that God won’t work in the lives of ordinary Christians. But, He is still working and the impossible becomes possible when we ask God to work in our lives.

We feel humbled and amazed at how God worked out the details. God’s tender care and leading in this process is something our family will remember for the rest of our lives, a story my boys will likely relay one day to their own children. We serve an awesome God who is interested in every detail of our lives and provides the means for us to follow His will for our family.

If you are interested in your child attending Shenandoah Valley Academy, know that you can pray and ask for God’s leading. “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus” (Phil. 4:6-7).

Feature Photo: Melissa Reinoehl