Announcements 12/21/16
THURSDAY: CHRISTMAS BREAK BEGINS!!!!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR! SEE YOU IN 2017!
DAILY ANNOUNCEMENTS
WEDNESDAY
DECEMBER 21, 2016
ALL SCHOOL
THURSDAY: CHRISTMAS BREAK BEGINS!!!!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR! SEE YOU IN 2017!
HIGH SCHOOL
Put your God-given talents, gifts and abilities to use in service to the Baton Rouge community! Because of the August 2016 flooding, there is a big need for gutting, treating, and restoring homes that were damaged, and we need your help to get people back in their homes! Look out for an informational meeting when you get back from Christmas Break!
Contact Miss A. McDaniel or Mrs. Buuck if you have any questions.
Interested in Shreddin' the Nar? Hitting the slopes?
If you are still interested in joining the Faith Lutheran Snowboard Ski Club, please email Mr. Carmichael at flsnowboardskiclub@gmail.com for the 2016-2017 permission slips and any additional questions. He can also be reached at 832.494.7588. The completed permission slips and other documentation is due by December 24th! The club’s first trip - to Brian Head Resort - is taking place on January 14th. (12/21)
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.
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
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
Interested in Shreddin' the Nar? Hitting the slopes?
If you are still interested in joining the Faith Lutheran Snowboard Ski Club, please email Mr. Carmichael at flsnowboardskiclub@gmail.com for the 2016-2017 permission slips and any additional questions. He can also be reached at 832.494.7588. The completed permission slips and other documentation is due by December 24th! The club’s first trip - to Brian Head Resort - is taking place on January 14th. (12/21)
"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
What You Have
READ
Jesus said, “You feed them.” “But we have only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered. “Or are you expecting us to go and buy enough food for this whole crowd?” (vv.13-14).
You can’t get blood from a rock.” That saying, used sometimes in my part of the world, means that we can’t get from another person or situation what simply isn’t there. For example, I might say, “I can’t get blood from a rock” when I’m trying to collect a debt from someone who doesn’t have the money to repay me. Trying to acquire cash from someone who isn’t capable of providing it is impossible.
The disciples once thought Jesus was trying to “get blood from a rock.”
When He told His disciples to feed a crowd of 5,000 men
(along with the women and children who were there with them), the disciples’ response was, “We have only five loaves of bread and two fish. . . . Are you expecting us to go buy enough food for this whole crowd?” (Luke 9:13). In other words, their response was, “Jesus, what on earth are You thinking?” Of course, the Savior knew exactly what He was asking. He wanted them to trust that God would use what they had to provide for others and for the situation. God would multiply what they had—it wasn’t about what they didn’t have.
Jesus used the five loaves and two fish, the little the disciples could muster up, to feed over 5,000 people! (v.17).
When we come to Christ, God takes us as we are—our personalities, experiences, skills, wisdom, abilities, disabilities, work, all of our circumstances including our failures—and uses them for His glory (Colossians 3:23). When we offer Him our “five loaves and two fish” in life, He uses who we are and what we possess to nourish others. How it happens, we can’t explain. But He does it.
Use what you have! God will multiply it. —Marlena Graves
MORE
Read Exodus 4:3, 14:16, and 17:5. How did God use Moses’ ordinary staff to work wonders?
NEXT
Pray to God and ask Him to use what you have right where you are. How does God’s multiplication of our humble efforts reveal His great power?
