How’s Mr Roberts?

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August 2006

How’s Mr Roberts?

LCGS 160th Birthday was cause for great celebration as Scott Sargent explains.

When the chaplain of Launceston Church Grammar School, Scott Sargent, meets old scholars who want to get married in the school chapel they nearly always ask 'How is Mr Roberts going?' or 'Is Mr Roberts still around?'

Mr Roberts is an institution at Grammar, having taught at the school for over thirty years. It seems everyone in Launceston knows him. And yet Ted (Mr Roberts) has been at Grammar for less than twenty percent of the school’s history.

In June of this year, Launceston Church Grammar celebrated its 160th birthday. The school was founded by the Anglican Church to promote the mission of the Church and to provide a place of excellent education. Its old scholars have gone on to be politicians, judges, governors, doctors, lawyers, musicians and test batsmen. But more importantly, generations of students have been exposed to the gospel hope and the opportunity of relationship with God through Jesus Christ.

Many of today’s students display a spiritual hunger and inquisitiveness and in recent years a significant number have become committed Christians. The chaplain’s prayer is that students leaving the school in this generation would one day come back to the school asking less often 'How is Mr Roberts going?' or 'Is Mr Roberts still around?', and more often "How is Jesus going at Grammar' or 'Is Jesus at the centre of the schools life, ministry and chapel preaching?'

Happy LCGS students approved of the special cakes celebrating the 160th birthday of their school.

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		How’s Mr Roberts? LCGS 160th Birthday was cause for great celebration as Scott Sargent explains. When the chaplain of Launceston Church Grammar School, Scott Sargent, meets old scholars who want to get married in the school chapel they nearly always ask 'How is Mr Roberts going?' or 'Is Mr Roberts still around?' Mr Roberts is an institution at Grammar, having taught at the school for over thirty years. It seems everyone in Launceston knows him. And yet Ted (Mr Roberts) has been at Grammar for less than twenty percent of the school’s history. In June of this year, Launceston Church Grammar celebrated its 160th birthday. The school was founded by the Anglican Church to promote the mission of the Church and to provide a place of excellent education. Its old scholars have gone on to be politicians, judges, governors, doctors, lawyers, musicians and test batsmen. But more importantly, generations of students have been exposed to the gospel hope and the opportunity of relationship with God through Jesus Christ. Many of today’s students display a spiritual hunger and inquisitiveness and in recent years a significant number have become committed Christians. The chaplain’s prayer is that students leaving the school in this generation would one day come back to the school asking less often 'How is Mr Roberts going?' or 'Is Mr Roberts still around?', and more often "How is Jesus going at Grammar' or 'Is Jesus at the centre of the schools life, ministry and chapel preaching?'		Happy LCGS students approved of the special cakes celebrating the 160th birthday of their school.