The NEWSLETTER of Grace Point Baptist Church

Grace Point Baptist’s Samuel Holland, son of Marlene and Wayne Holland, was recently notified by the ACT testing service that he had achieved a perfect composite score of 36. That places him in a group of fewer than one-tenth of one percent, — or one of only 781 out of more than 1.66 mil-lion— of students to achieve this mark.

Samuel did not expect to get a perfect score although he had averaged a 34 on practice tests in a fall ACT workshop taught by SCA instructor, Mrs. Ruth Terry.

He said, "In order to get a composite score of 36, one must get a 36 in the Reading, English, and Sci-ence sections and only in the Math section can a student miss one problem."

Samuel is a junior at Summit Christian Academy in Lee’s Summit where he has attended since preschool from age 3. He plays bas-soon and saxophone in the school band. He runs cross country in the fall and has competed in debate. He is on the tech crew for the school plays. Samuel’s other interests include listening to and making music on his ukulele.

At Grace Point, Samuel on his ukulele joins Matt Jackson on acoustic guitar to accompany the choir during Sunday morning service. He was in R.A.s and all youth groups over the years, and he is now is in the Alpha Youth Group. He is on the Audio-Visual Committee and helps in the sound booth here at church.

While Samuel is part of a very elite group of students, he doesn’t know yet how the ACT perfect score will impact him. He would like to go into computer programming and systems admin-istration.

"I would like to develop software for nonprofits that would be helpful to the community and free of charge. I want to make a positive impact," he said.

Samuel has already written some software in his free time and looks forward to using his skills to make a difference in the world for Christ.