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🌿 Peace: Calm in the Chaos

This month at TCC, we’re focusing on peace, the next attribute in our Fruit of the Spirit journey.

Biblical peace doesn’t mean everything around us is quiet, easy, or going according to plan. It means we can remain steady because our trust is rooted in God.

Philippians 4:6-7 reminds us not to be anxious, but to bring everything to God in prayer and promises that His peace will guard our hearts and minds.

For our students, peace can look like pausing before reacting, listening instead of escalating, trusting God with what they cannot control, and choosing to bring calm into a difficult moment.

Peace trusts. Peace listens. Peace doesn’t add to the chaos.

Our prayer is that TCC students learn not only how to find peace in Christ, but how to carry that peace into their classrooms, friendships, families, and everyday lives.

**One Fruit. Nine Attributes. Growing Together.**

Talk about taking learning beyond the classroom! 🐄💰

Neil Turner’s Dirt to Dinner students toured the OKC Stockyards for a firsthand look at cattle being bought and sold—and the role the livestock industry plays in getting beef from the producer to the consumer.

Earlier this semester, students learned the auction process with a candy auction in class. This time, they watched the real thing in action—an auction where an incredible $15 MILLION changed hands!

From candy bids to cattle sales, this was an unforgettable look at agriculture, economics, and the beef supply chain in the real world. That’s learning that sticks!

How would YOU describe TCC?

This month, we focused on joy - a fruit of the Spirit that goes deeper than happiness.

Joy can rise from the beautiful, ordinary gifts God gives us, but it can also remain with us in difficult seasons. It is the steady confidence that God is still at work, even when life does not feel easy. As James 1:2-4 reminds us, trials can shape and mature us, and our trust in God allows joy to exist even alongside disappointment, uncertainty, and hardship.

And that kind of joy leads us to October's focus and into our next Fruit of the Spirit: peace.

Peace is more than the absence of conflict. It is the calm assurance that God is in control. Jesus told His disciples that they would face trouble, but they could still have peace because He had overcome the world.

Philippians 4:6–7 reminds us to bring our worries to God and trust Him with what we cannot control. As we do, His peace begins to guard our hearts and minds.

But peace is not only something we experience - it is something we help create. Romans 14:19 encourages us to “pursue the things that produce peace and the building up of one another.”

This month, we want to encourage our TCC students to become peacemakers: choosing calm over chaos, reconciliation over conflict, and words that build others up.

Joy reminds us that God is at work. Peace helps us rest in that truth.