B-I-O-S

By Staci Fletcher

“Where do you teach and where do your children attend school?” “Bios Christian Academy.” I say. I am greeted with a blank stare. “What did you say?” Once again I reply, “Bios Christian Academy. B-I-O-S.” “Oh… what kind of name is Bios?” I answer, “It means “life”. A perfect name for what our school represents… LIFE.” I think many who attend Bios have probably encountered this same type of dialogue from those unfamiliar with the school or even the term Bios. Did you know that the program that gives life to the computers you work on everyday is called BIOS (basic input/output system)? You may be more familiar with this by the phrase “booting up your computer.” The BIOS software has a number of different roles, but its most important role is to load the operating system. When you turn on your computer and the microprocessor tries to execute its first instruction, it has to get that instruction from somewhere. The BIOS provides those instructions. Without those instructions, nothing comes to life. BIOS.

I love this analogy and how it relates to our own school. The name of our school speaks volumes about us. As the BIOS language for a computer provides the instructions for bringing a computer life, I believe our school provides the instructions for bringing your children to life. In a computer, BIOS provides instructions for multiple pieces of hardware to work together for one specific purpose which is to improve your technological quality of life. At the school, Bios, we provide specific instructions to each unique student so they may be able to work together with the talents God has gifted in them for one specific purpose and that is to bring Glory to God with their lives. Thus, Bios works with your child under the guidance of their Creator in bringing him/her to life. My prayer would be that this in turn improves the quality of every facet of a person’s life who comes in contact with a Bios student because of the life they have in them, the life of Jesus Christ.

You see; the name of our school actually speaks volumes about who we are and what we represent in our community. So when you get the blank stare after sharing with someone the name of our school, be sure that you not only restate it and spell it, B-I-O-S, but also take the opportunity to share the life changing meaning behind it. “Bios means LIFE.” Subsequent articles I will be posting will continue to build on this theme of BIOS. Each month I will focus on a different set of instructions the school provides the students which intricately work together in supporting families, along with their Creator for bringing children to LIFE.

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6