Mrs. Jane Foerster

Band Teacher

• Hometown: Prairie Village, KS
• Joined the BCS staff in 1993
• Education: BA – Music, University of Missouri
  Masters – Music Education, Kent State University

Mrs. Foerster has worked with BCS students in various roles in our music department since 1993. Currently, Jane is involved in the Sunday Chapel services at the Congregational Home where she plays piano for worship. She has also led worship events through Elmbrook Church and Spring Creek Church. She has 5 grandchildren and enjoys gardening, cooking, and of course, being involved in music - singing and playing piano.

She says, “I enjoy being able to teach music in ways that will encourage students to sing and play for their Lord, and to understand and appreciate the wide variety of music in God’s world. Being a Christian music educator means that I recognize God as the supreme Creator. He, in turn, gifted man with abilities to create and re-create. For these abilities, I am thankful. My job is to present a variety of music that shows God’s creativity, diversity and His desire for man to express emotion.

Another aspect of being a Christian music educator is to help students identify their God-given musical abilities; to help cultivate them; to help students learn to use their gifts in service to God. Service to God is not limited to “church.” Christians, by the mere fact of being Christian, take the name of Jesus with them everywhere they go. They take Jesus to a high school band practice, to a music lesson at the music store, to playing in a combo with kids in their neighborhood or being part of a worship service on Sunday morning. My job is to help students recognize that their abilities are gifts from God and due homage to Him should be given."

Her life verse is 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, which says: “But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”  Jane says these verses "remind me that I am nothing on my own. Only through total dependence on Jesus can I be strong. My prayer is that my students will learn total dependence on Jesus — that their abilities; their performances; their lives; must be one of total reliance on God.”