Legacy Legends: Jan Taylor

                    “SACS is more than a school…SACS is a body of Christ.” This is one thing Jan Taylor, San Antonio Christian School’s (SACS) Administrative Assistant to the Superintendent, has noticed during her thirty-four years at SACS. She believes SACS does more than prepare; it ministers. It has ministered to her family and has impacted them in many ways.

                    Taylor has had four children come through SACS. Her children are Zachary (38), Marie (37), and Kelly (34) and Kristen Taylor (34), whom are twins. They each started in kindergarten and stayed through their senior year, a total of 13 years each. The Taylor family has been with SACS from nearly the very beginning of the school since their graduating years were 1995, 1996, and 1998. After speaking of how SACS was like a community, Taylor says, “It’s been the kids friendships. It was their social.” Taylor says her children have maintained their friendships through SACS. One of Taylor’s daughters even married a fellow SACS grad that graduated in 1997. Taylor thinks SACS was and still is an important part of her children’s lives. She says, “I believe it was a very defining part of their growing up,” and she believes the things they learned at school reflect on how they now raise their children. Her children not only went to school everyday, but also went to their instrumental community.  

                    When Taylor came to San Antonio, she wanted to put her children in a private school, and SACS was one of the first and most common one she heard about. Taylor says, “I never even considered any other Christian school in town. SACS was the only one I thought of.” Taylor believes God opened the doors and allowed all four of her children to go through. After six years of having her children in SACS, she got her first job at the school as a Home Economics teacher. When asked why she wanted to work at SACS, she simply replied, “Because they [her children] were here.” She worked at the school, not only so her kids could go there, but also so she may be more involved in their lives. Between her Home Economics job and her current one, she has also been a Junior Varsity (JV) volleyball coach and has even been on the custodial staff. She worked wherever she was needed. At the school, Taylor knows she is there to serve, and her children were there to learn and have a strong Christian foundation built into them. Also, while at the school, she has gained many friends that have always been right there with her to encourage her in her walk with Christ. By working there, Taylor says, “I was able to plug into the ministry of SACS.” She says SACS is not a private school, but a tight-knit ministry that helps construct young Christian lives, and Taylor fit perfectly into it.

                    Because she has been at SACS for so long, Taylor has been able to notice things most likely many others have not. When speaking of the foundation, she compares the school to a house. Much like a house, the school has had many repairs or changes throughout the years, but the foundation stays the same.  “There’s been changes, there’s been good times, there’s been bad times, but the foundation of Christ being preeminent at this school has held firm,” says Taylor. SACS’s foundation is to minster to each other and all those who come their way to build on the Body of Christ. That is what SACS will always be, a Body of Christ. Because of this, Taylor believes SACS has been such a blessing in her family’s lives with its support. She also believes its strong spiritual environment that branches off its foundation has been a positive influence that is always ministering to her and her family. She says, “SACS teaches faith, truth, integrity… there’s loving discipline.” This Body of Christ may teach all the academics and fine arts, but most importantly, it ministers.

                    Through Taylor, it is easy to see how SACS is more than a school. It is not only a place to go to for eight hours to merely grow in the knowledge of math, science, and the many other classes it offers. SACS is a powerful social community. It is a constructing tight-knit ministry. And most importantly, San Antonio Christian Schools is a Body of Christ. 

Reported and Written by Rebecca James, SACS High School freshman