Announcements 1/5/17
Lunch Today: Pasta w/Meat Sauce
Lunch Friday: Philly Cheese Steak
Lunch Friday: Philly Cheese Steak
DAILY ANNOUNCEMENTS
THURSDAY
JANUARY 5, 2107
ALL SCHOOL
LUNCH TODAY: PASTA W/MEAT SAUCE
LUNCH FRIDAY: PHILLY CHEESE STEAK
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.
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. (1/17)
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
Any 7th or 8th Middle School Girls' Basketball player that did not pick up their Gear Order can do so with Coach Schwartz in the Girls' PE Office. Please try to do this as soon as you can--by today or tomorrow.
Any 6-8th grade parents who have issues with the Gear Order should email Coach Schwartz: schwartzl@flhsemail.org
"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
Income vs. Investment
1 Timothy 6:6-19 Yet true godliness with contentment is itself great wealth (v.6).
And what do you do, Susan?” I asked over dinner. “Oh, not much,” she said. Approaching the question differently, I asked Susan what she’d done that week. Her answer made me feel exhausted!
That week Susan had helped lead her church’s women’s ministry, touching several hundred lives. She’d spent two days helping a friend recover from surgery. She’d mentored two young women; cooked, cleaned, and cared for her family; and was now offering hospitality to me. I told Susan she was doing a lot with her life. “I don’t always feel so,” she replied, “because I’m not bringing in an income.”
In a culture like ours, it’s easy to value people by their paychecks: The higher the income, we think, the more significant they must be. But this can leave the low-paid, the unemployed, fulltime parents or volunteers, and people like Susan feeling devalued. Something is wrong with the popular way we measure a person’s significance.
The apostle Paul knew the importance of money (1 Timothy 5:18), but he placed it secondary to other forms of “wealth”— like godliness (6:6). He warned that money could destroy godliness (vv.7-9) and advised those with lots of money to use it in a godly way (vv.18-19). To Paul, money ranked lower than faith, love, and generosity (vv.11,18)—the very things Susan was evidencing in her life. She may not have been earning an income, but Susan was “rich in good works.”
What if we valued our lives another way: not by our incomes, but by our investments—by how much love, time, and assistance we gave to others? Those earning much would remember what wealth is for, while those earning little would rediscover God’s economy: that in His eyes, helping a friend after surgery or looking after one’s family is the work of millionaires. —Sheridan Voysey
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Read Matthew 6:19-20 and consider how God views real treasure.
Are you prone to value yourself or others primarily by income? How will you be “rich in good works” today?
