Announcements 12/9/16
Special Today: Combo Burrito
Special Monday: Sloppy Joes
Special Monday: Sloppy Joes
DAILY ANNOUNCEMENTS
FRIDAY
DECEMBER 9, 2016
ALL SCHOOL
Lunch Today: Combo Burrito
Lunch Monday: Sloppy Joes
HIGH SCHOOL
If you missed the HS Swim & Dive informational meeting and wish to join, please e-mail Coach Blank ASAP at: blanks@flhsemail.org (1/6)
The Navy SEALs are returning to Faith on January 23rd. This mental toughness exercise is open to ALL high school students. New this year - girls are invited and encouraged to participate. Sign up with Coach Cheney.
Any high school girl interested in playing lacrosse there will be a meeting December 13th at 6pm in the library. The player and a parent should plan on attending. (12/13)
CHRISTMAS WINTER CLOTHING DRIVE FOR EDITH AND LOYD KATZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL! They are in need of ANY old winter clothing such as jackets, scarves, and gloves. Contact Lizzy Tuls at: et8612@flhsemail.org or 702-401-8026 or you can drop off donations at the front office.
Time to get your UGLY on!
Monday, Dec 12th is wear your ugly Christmas sweater to school day!
There will be competitions during all lunches - Maybe yours will be the ugliest? You may wear free dress bottoms, spirit day bottoms, or uniform bottoms if you have an ugly sweater on!
CINDERELLA AUDITIONS ARE COMING. Please visit the Cinderella moodle page-- password is cinderella17 - one word, all lower case-- to find all the information needed. Please sign up for audition times in advance.
All forms (cast and tech) need to be filled out in advance and either brought or turned in by the last day of auditions. If you have any questions please contact Mr Elliott ASAP.
This semester's last Spanish tutoring date will be Tuesday, Dec. 13 in Mrs. Grant's room. There is no tutoring the week of final exams.
High School and Middle School Sign Language Club starts January 12th at 3:30 to 4:30 in room 404. We will meet every Thursday. (1/12)
In cooperation with Princeton Review, Faith Lutheran is offering Princeton Review's Ultimate SAT course on campus, which includes 30 hours of instruction and 4 full-length diagnostic practice exams on Saturday mornings at 9:00. This course is valued at $1099, but Faith students can take it for only $599. The next available course is an SAT class which starts with a practice test on Jan. 28 and runs mostly Monday and Wednesday evenings from 6:30 to 9:00 PM through March 8 leading up to the March 11 SAT. Exact dates for the classes are listed below. To sign up please fill out the form at this link by Jan.17 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDJYTEl5VFF0UGR4Q3diUzFTUWF2RXc6MQ. The total $599 for the class will be added to your tuition bill once the class has begun. Contact Mr. Buikema at buikemad@flhsemail.org or 804-4400 for more information.
Spring 2017 – SAT
1/28 Test 1
1/31 Class 1
2/2 Class 2
2/6 Class 3
2/8 Class 4
2/11 Test 2
2/13 Class 5
2/15 Class 6
2/21 Class 7
2/22 Class 8
2/25 Test 3
2/27 Class 9
3/1 Class 10
3/4 Test 4
3/6 Class 11
3/8 Class 12
SHH Friday, December 9th in Sra. Grant's room! Food and beverages will be provided.
Attention 8th-11th graders! Would you like to visit the amazing Inca ruins of Machu Picchu? Sail to an island on Lake Titicaca, the world's highest navigable lake? Explore Lima, the historic capital of Peru? Or walk the streets of Cuzco, the ancient capital of the Incas? Then join Ms. Gieseke and Mr. Crowder on a trip to Peru during spring break 2018 (March 29-April 7, 2018). We know it is a long way off, but start thinking about it NOW. If you have any questions or need further information, please talk to or email Ms. Gieseke or Mr. Crowder. Stay tuned for more information! (6/25)
"Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God." In Philippians 4:6, God calls us to pray to Him about anything and everything in all situations. A new prayer group is starting up to do just that. The group will meet twice a week on Mondays and Fridays in room 112 at 7am, and the sole purpose of the group will be to pray for this school and those in it, this city, this country, and this world. If you are in need of prayer, whether you are a faculty member or a student, you are welcome to come on Monday mornings starting on September 12 and the members of the group will pray for you in person. If you want to request prayer, but not in person, you can send emails to request@flhsemail.org. If you are interested in joining the group and praying for everything under the sun, please contact Hannah Hines by email (hh8604@flhsemail.org) for more information or to confirm your intent to join. The first informational meeting for the members will be sometime next week. More information on that meeting to come. 6/2
MIDDLE SCHOOL
CHRISTMAS WINTER CLOTHING DRIVE FOR EDITH AND LOYD KATZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL! They are in need of ANY old winter clothing such as jackets, scarves, and gloves. Contact Lizzy Tuls at: et8612@flhsemail.org or 702-401-8026 or you can drop off donations at the front office.
Time to get your UGLY on!
Monday, Dec 12th is wear your ugly Christmas sweater to school day!
There will be competitions during all lunches - Maybe yours will be the ugliest? You may wear free dress bottoms, spirit day bottoms, or uniform bottoms if you have an ugly sweater on!
CINDERELLA AUDITIONS ARE COMING. Please visit the Cinderella moodle page-- password is cinderella17 - one word, all lower case-- to find all the information needed. Please sign up for audition times in advance.
All forms (cast and tech) need to be filled out in advance and either brought or turned in by the last day of auditions. If you have any questions please contact Mr Elliott ASAP.
This semester's last Spanish tutoring date will be Tuesday, Dec. 13 in Mrs. Grant's room. There is no tutoring the week of final exams.
High School and Middle School Sign Language Club starts January 12th at 3:30 to 4:30 in room 404. We will meet every Thursday. (1/12)
WINTER SPORTS TEAMS PLEASE MEET AT 9:35 IN THE SPORTS LOBBY THIS FRIDAY SO THAT YOU CAN RUN THROUGH THE ARCH!!
SWIM TEAM
7/8 BOYS BASKETBALL TEAM
7/8 GIRLS BASKETBALL TEAM
WRESTLING TEAM
ATTENTION MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS!!!!
WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A BLAST ON FRIDAY CELEBRATING OUR WINTER SPORTS TEAMS.
WEAR A SANTA HAT AND YOU WILL GET YOUR NAME IN TO WIN A PRIZE FRIDAY AT LUNCH!!!!
ATTENTION ALL 6-8 GRADE GIRLS: MS Girls Lacrosse interest meeting is Dec. 8th at 3:30 in Room 501. Tryouts will be Jan. 13 and 14, more information to come at the meeting. Questions see Mr. Frederick (frederickc@flhsemail.org)
Boys Lacrosse: Every Thursday 3:30 - 4:30 there will be preseason conditioning at Village Green Park. This is a perfect time for boys interested in the sport to workout without having to commit.
ATTENTION ALL 6-8 GRADE BOYS: MS Lacrosse tryouts are Dec. 16th 12:30-2:30 and Dec. 17th 10:00-12:00. Please have your register my athlete certification printed out and with you at the first day of tryouts. If there are any questions please contact Cy Frederick (frederickc@flhsemail.org) or Coach Mike Hoffmann (mwhoff08@gmail.com). Thank you and hope to see you out there! (12/16)
Attention 6TH GRADE Basketball Players and Parents: We offer 6th grade A and B teams.Please Note the following Try-Out Dates (You must have a CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION from RegisterMyathlete.com to try-out, this replaces our Crusader Card).Please realize all try-outs have the potential of extending to 6 p.m.
BOYS 6: Dec. 12, 14, 15 from 3:30-5:30 p.m. (Student Center)
"Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God." In Philippians 4:6, God calls us to pray to Him about anything and everything in all situations. A new prayer group is starting up to do just that. The group will meet twice a week on Mondays and Fridays in room 112 at 7am, and the sole purpose of the group will be to pray for this school and those in it, this city, this country, and this world. If you are in need of prayer, whether you are a faculty member or a student, you are welcome to come on Monday mornings starting on September 12 and the members of the group will pray for you in person. If you want to request prayer, but not in person, you can send emails to request@flhsemail.org. If you are interested in joining the group and praying for everything under the sun, please contact Hannah Hines by email (hh8604@flhsemail.org) for more information or to confirm your intent to join. The first informational meeting for the members will be sometime next week. More information on that meeting to come. 6/2
Attention 8th-11th graders! Would you like to visit the amazing Inca ruins of Machu Picchu? Sail to an island on Lake Titicaca, the world's highest navigable lake? Explore Lima, the historic capital of Peru? Or walk the streets of Cuzco, the ancient capital of the Incas? Then join Ms. Gieseke and Mr. Crowder on a trip to Peru during spring break 2018 (March 29-April 7, 2018). We know it is a long way off, but start thinking about it NOW. The first informational meeting is Thursday, September 15th, at 6:30 p.m. in the library. If you have any questions or need further information, please talk to or email Ms. Gieseke or Mr. Crowder. Stay tuned for more information! (6/25)
DEVOTIONAL
Always Loved
READ
Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us (v.4).
In spite of my many fatherly mess-ups (and lately I feel as if I’ve had more than a few), my deepest hope for my two sons is that they will know I love them, and that my love comes from God. If you want to prod me to tears, get me to talk about my hopes for my sons. There are few places where I could feel more anxiety than when I consider the uncertain future: Will they grow up to be good men? Will they follow truth and life? But what I do know, without doubt, is that I love my boys fiercely—that I have always done so and will always love them.
Our good Father loves us fiercely, and His love wholly embraces us. “Even before he made the world,” Paul tells us, “God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes” (Ephesians 1:4). Before we even existed, God set us apart—insistent on loving us. Consider this: There’s never been a moment of your life when you haven’t been the object of God’s love.
Before we breathed our first breath, before we ever accomplished anything, before we’d achieved something we could claim as success, before we advanced in our vocation or made our parents proud, before we crafted a life . . . God determined to love us. “God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. . . . It gave him great pleasure” (v.5).
Of course, God knows the depths of our human waywardness. So even knowing how we’d blunder, how we’d mess up close relationships, how we’d cave to addictions—He loved us. He knew in advance about how we’d become callous or greedy or selfish, how our hearts would grow cold, and how much we’d make an absolute mess of things.
But God loves us still. —Winn Collier
MORE
Read John 15:16. How do these words from Jesus add another dimension to Paul’s words in Ephesians?
NEXT
When have you felt unwanted or estranged? How might you consider Jesus’ words (“I chose you”) this week and meditate on how deeply Jesus has embraced you and loved you?
