Announcements 9/9/16
Special Today: Chili Verde Burrito
Lunch Monday: Pork Rib Patty Sandwich
Lunch Monday: Pork Rib Patty Sandwich
DAILY ANNOUNCEMENTS
Friday
September 9, 2016
ALL SCHOOL
Lunch Today: Chili Verde Burrito
Lunch Monday: Pork Rib Patty Sandwich
HIGH SCHOOL
Are you interested in international politics? Ever wonder about world issues? There is still time to do something about it by joining Model United Nations today. Just come to any practice, every Thursday, 7:00-8:30 pm, in the Library, or email us at modelun@flhsemail.org to learn more. Find out how you can make a difference. We hope to see you there! (9/22)
Attention HS Wrestlers!!! Wrestling practice will start on Wednesday, September 14th at 2:55 PM in the HS Wrestling Room. Registration for the team can be completed(including uploading of your physical forms) on registermyathlete.com
Please return your registration receipt to Coach Jeffries.
Go Crusaders!!! (9/14)
Attention baseball players, we will have a fall workout information meeting on September 9th at 3:00 at the baseball field (9/9)
MAKE-UP PICTURE DAY!!!!
If you missed getting your picture taken at the Crusader Connect, please remember that makeup picture day is Wednesday, September 21. PLEASE listen to the announcements that day telling you what time to go to the student activity center to get yours done! If you need an order form, they are at the front desk. (9/20)
Are you interested in assisting startup companies in 3rd world countries? Then join Microbank, where you will lend 0% interest loans to nearly all parts of the globe. Meetings are in Room 122 every Thursday at lunch. (9/22)
Support your September Charity of the Month!
This month’s charity is JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation). JDRF works to raise funds for type 1 diabetes research, so that a cure can be found!
Please help support our fundraising efforts by participating in these upcoming activities:
- 1. Donuts-We will be selling Krispy Kreme donuts every Friday morning in the amphitheater for $1, so stop by and get a morning snack!
- 1. “Dress for T1D” Day- Support JDRF by donating $5 and students/faculty can wear blue for the day
2.Restaurants- Stop by restaurants such as Roccos (on 9/14) and Canes (on 9/22) and mention that you are with Faith, and they have agreed to give back a percentage to support JDRF! We will keep you updated through social media, daily announcements, etc for other important info! Thanks for helping us turn type one into type none! With your help, you can help us reach our $10,000 goal! (9/30)
If you missed the meeting and are interested in participating in the Nevada State Mock Trial Competition please, please speak to Ms. Uy ASAP. ALL FORMS ARE DUE BY SEPTEMBER 16, 2016 @3PM
~ Help Faith Gather Hope & Share Love ~
Join us in northern LA as we serve at The Gathering, Hope of the Valley Mission, Children's Hunger Fund, & Casa Esperanza. We will depart after school on Wednesday, Oct 26 and return to Faith on Sunday, Oct 30th. Be the hands and feet of Jesus and have fun serving alongside your classmates with the added benefit of completing all of your Community Crusade service hours in one trip. See Mr. Heupel in Portable 55 or email at heupelt@flhsemail.org for more information. (10/5)
SERVICE HOURS OPPORTUNITY:
PigsForTheKids.org is looking for volunteers to help with their event on Saturday, September 17th from 2:00-6:00pm and 5:30-10:00pm. More information and volunteer sign ups can be found on their website: PigsForTheKids.org (9/16)
SERVICE HOURS OPPORTUNITY:
Nevada Child Seekers - Sept. 17th – Police Vs Firefighters Game
Nevada Child Seekers volunteers will arrive one hour before the start of the event and check in at the Nevada Child Seekers booth. Volunteers will help set up booth, greet attendees and help coordinate the game and prizes at our booth. Please fill out the form below to volunteer.
SERVICE HOURS OPPORTUNITY:
Nevada Child Seekers - Oct 1st – Nascar – Kids Zone
Nevada Child Seekers volunteers will arrive two hours before the start of the Show and Shine event at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Volunteers need to check in at the Nevada Child Seekers booth. Volunteers will help set up booth, greet attendees and help coordinate the game and prizes at our booth.
Please use the link below to sign up:
SERVICE HOURS OPPORTUNITY:
THE DOUGLAS J. GREEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION needs volunteers to help tape, pack boxes and organize food for their annual “United We Stand” care packages for deployed service members. The event is Sunday, September 11 at 12:00pm. For more information contact Suni at 702-845-9171 (9/9)
SERVICE HOURS OPPORTUNITY:
First Good Shepard Fall Carnival
Sunday, October 23 from 9-4 pm (Does not need to be the entire time, whatever you can do)
Contact: Hilda Washington (702)429-2690 Or First Good Shepard School
Wear Faith Polo. Helping with Set up, take down, and running activities. (10/21)
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)
"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
All School Testing Day October 12
October 12 will be a minimum day and all students in grades 6-11 will be taking standardized tests on campus. All seniors have the day off that day. 6th and 7th graders will be taking the ACT Aspire Exam, which is a pre-ACT written specifically for each grade level, and they will be excused at approximately 2:00PM. Students in grades 8-11 will be taking the PSAT written specifically for their grade level. Juniors taking the PSAT are eligible for a National Merit Scholar designation if they score in the top 2% nationally on the exam. All other grade levels of that exam are simply practice for the junior year. 8th graders will be excused at approximately 11:45AM and 9th-11th grade will be excused at approximately 11:15AM. Please use the normal after school designated pick-up areas. Students should get a good night's sleep the night before, have a good breakfast that morning and come prepared with #2 pencils, a 4-function calculator, water and a healthy snack to eat during the break. Please contact Dan Buikema at buikemad@flhsemail.org with any questions or concerns. (10/11)
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 starts with a practice test on Oct. 15 and runs mostly Monday and Wednesday evenings from 6:30 to 9:00 PM through Nov. 30 leading up to the December 3 SAT. Exact dates for the class are listed below. To sign up please fill out the form at this link by October 5 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. (10/5)
Fall 2016 – SAT
10/15 Test 1
10/17 Class 1
10/19 Class 2
10/24 Class 3
10/26 Class 4
10/29 Test 2
11/1 Class 5
11/2 Class 6
11/7 Class 7
11/9 Class 8
11/12 Test 3
11/14 Class 9
11/16 Class 10
11/19 Test 4
11/28 Class 11
11/30 Class 12
MIDDLE SCHOOL
Mark Your Calendars
Middle School Mock Trial - April 1 - All Day - Mrs. Uy (uyj@flhsemail.org)
Middle School Model United Nations - May 6 - All Day - Mr. Tonniges (tonnigesj@flhsemail.org)
Information meeting(s) will be held in January 2017. Check student announcements after Christmas for details and fee information
MAKE-UP PICTURE DAY!!!!
If you missed getting your picture taken at the Crusader Connect, please remember that makeup picture day is Wednesday, September 21. PLEASE listen to the announcements that day telling you what time to go to the student activity center to get yours done! If you need an order form, they are at the front desk. (9/20)
"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
Support your September Charity of the Month!
This month’s charity is JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation). JDRF works to raise funds for type 1 diabetes research, so that a cure can be found!
Please help support our fundraising efforts by participating in these upcoming activities:
2.Donuts-We will be selling Krispy Kreme donuts every Friday morning in the amphitheater for $1, so stop by and get a morning snack!
3.“Dress for T1D” Day- Support JDRF by donating $5 and students/faculty can wear blue for the day
4.Restaurants- Stop by restaurants such as Roccos (on 9/14) and Canes (on 9/22) and mention that you are with Faith, and they have agreed to give back a percentage to support JDRF!
We will keep you updated through social media, daily announcements, etc for other important info! Thanks for helping us turn type one into type none! With your help, you can help us reach our $10,000 goal!
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)
STUDENT COUNCIL IS SPONSORING CRUSADER DAY AT MS FOOTBALL GAME SATURDAY!
Come support our football team this Saturday night at 6pm. All students and teachers will receive a raffle ticket for attending and may win fabulous prizes. Let's cheer on our Crusader Football team as well as support our cheer and dance teams.
Daily Devotional
Blood and Worship
READ:
With his own blood— not the blood of goats and calves—he entered the Most Holy Place once for all time and secured our redemption forever (v.12).
The meat section of my grocery store is clean and pleasant. Festive music plays as I select refrigerated trays of pork, beef, and chicken. Each package is shrink-wrapped in clear plastic, with only an occasional smudge of blood. But no matter how much the store tries to conceal it, its meat section is built on death.
The same is true of Christian worship. We gather in pleasant buildings to worship God with joyful songs. And it’s okay to be in clean surroundings and sing music that reflects our joy in Jesus. But we can forget that even our worship is built on death. Our praise is only possible because of the death of our Savior.
Every Old Testament Israelite would have known this immediately. No one could worship God without sacrificing a lamb, goat, calf, bull, or bird (Exodus 24:4-8). The temple priests would begin and end each day by killing a lamb, plus two more on the Sabbath. More would be sacrificed by those who came to confess their sin. During Passover in Jesus’ day, thousands of lambs would have been sacrificed at the temple in just a few hours. Imagine the bleating and the blood! The worship truly ran red.
We no longer sacrifice lambs because the Lamb of God has been sacrificed once for all. To ritually kill an animal today would be to deny that Jesus has come. But our worship is no less built on blood. Jesus “has appeared at the end of the age to remove sin by his own death as a sacrifice” (Hebrews 9:26).
We gather together and sing because Jesus’ death has made us clean. So we join the praise of heaven: “Worthy is the Lamb who was slaughtered” (Revelation 5:12), for His “blood has ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation” (v.9). —Mike Wittmer
MORE:
Read Exodus 12:1-13 to learn how Old Testament sacrifices pointed ahead to the salvation Jesus brought.
NEXT:
What does the cost of your salvation mean to you? What can you do to better remember it?
