Announcements 4/18/17
SPECIAL TODAY: TAQUITOS
SPECIAL WEDNESDAY: SLOPPY JOES
SPECIAL WEDNESDAY: SLOPPY JOES
DAILY ANNOUNCEMENTS
TUESDAY
APRIL 18, 2017
ALL SCHOOL
LUNCH TODAY: TAQUITOS
LUNCH WEDNESDAY: SLOPPY JOES
HIGH SCHOOL
COMMUNITY SERVICE HOURS OPPORTUNITY:
The Nevada affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure is looking for Race Volunteers for the upcoming race at the Fremont Street Experience Saturday, May 6, 2017. There are multiple areas where help is needed including set up, tear down, registration, kid’s area, and sponsor booths. There are Race Day Volunteer Orientations on Saturday, April 29th from 10am - 12pm OR Monday, May 1 from 6pm – 8pm. Please email volunteers@komennevada.orgwith questions. Register to volunteer at
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COMMUNITY SERVICE HOURS OPPORTUNITY:
Summer Meet Up & Eat Up Program (July 3rd – August 11th)— Boys Town Nevada in partnership with Three Square Food Bank will provide lunch over the summer break to the youth served by our Care Coordination Schools program. Volunteers are needed to welcome the youth, distribute lunch, assist with monitoring the youth and clean-up. Schedule: Monday - Friday 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Available Spots: 3-6 volunteers needed daily. Please contact Christine Cisneros at 702.724.8413 for information and to sign up.
In an effort to encourage strong values of philanthropy and community involvement among our student body, the Faith Lutheran HS Student Leadership Team (SLT) along with the MS Student Council will select 5 charities per academic year that will receive school-wide support. Each charity will be assigned a month (Sept, Oct, Nov/Dec, Jan/Feb, Mar/Apr & May) where the Faith Family will be encouraged to contribute to fundraising or collection efforts solicited for that month’s charity.
High school students who would like to submit an application for consideration to support a charitable organization during the 2017-18 academic year, please contact Mrs. Buuck for an application at buuckj@flhsemail.org. Applications can also be found outside of Mrs. Buuck's Office (Office of Student Life) in the aux gym near room 501. All applications for consideration must be submitted to the Office of Student Life no later than May 12, 2017. (5/12)
MASTERACT is BACK this summer with “Walk the Plank”! Faith Lutheran’s Summer Theatre Camp will be July 10-15, 2017. Open registration to all 6-12 graders. Cost is $400 and there is only room for 100 students. To enroll, please visit www.faithlutheranlv.org/masteract or email ErikBall123@gmail.com
COMMUNITY SERVICE HOURS OPPORTUNITY:
MOUNTAIN VIEW LUTHERAN CHURCH is having a community service day on May 7, 2017. There are several different opportunities to serve throughout the community. Please visit the link to view the opportunities and to sign up:
"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 dojust 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
THROW BACK SPRING SPORTS ASSEMBLY THIS FRIDAY APRIL 21!
DRESS LIKE THE 60s ON FRIDAY!!
ENJOY 60s MUSIC AT LUNCH!!
IF YOU ARE ON A SPRING SPORTS TEAM, MEET IN THE LOBBY OF THE GYMS FRIDAY AT 9:25! WE WANT TO HONOR YOU!!!
Calling All Middle School Artists! The 2nd Annual Juried Middle School Art Show is coming up in May. You can apply to be in it by dropping off your original (not copied) art work for consideration. Entries need to have a label with your full name, grade, and contact information on the back. See Ms. Gilman for details. She will be accepting entries after Spring Break.
MASTERACT is BACK this summer with “Walk the Plank”! Faith Lutheran’s Summer Theatre Camp will be July 10-15, 2017. Open registration to all 6-12 graders. Cost is $400 and there is only room for 100 students. To enroll, please visit www.faithlutheranlv.org/masteract or email ErikBall123@gmail.com
"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
DEVOTIONAL
Beauty of Diversity
READ
Select seven men who are well respected and are full of the Spirit and wisdom. We will give them this responsibility (v.3).
Watch a video of the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show in 1964, and you’ll be struck by the charm and grace with which they performed. It’s easy to assume that the four musicians were simply born with the skills they displayed. But in his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell argues that what made the Beatles a hit with fans was lots of hard work. Before that celebrated performance, the band had done nearly 1,200 shows—practice that prepared them for greatness.
The early church worked hard to protect and encourage diversity, leading to some great results. Already on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:7-12), the believers in Jesus enjoyed differences in language, geography, socioeconomic class, and race. The diversity—a work of the Holy Spirit—can be clearly seen throughout the book of Acts.
But unity amid diversity doesn’t come easily. In Acts 6, when a conflict arises about how the widows of different cultural backgrounds were being treated, the apostles didn’t sit on their hands and wait to see if things would work themselves out. No, they did nothing less than create a completely new level of leadership for the church, filling it with seven respected men “full of the Spirit and wisdom” (vv.2-4). In Acts 15, “the apostles and elders met together”—the Council of Jerusalem—to make sure that Gentile Christians were not discouraged in their faith (v.6). Diversity might have been a gift of the Spirit, but they worked hard to cultivate that gift.
We all want diversity in our churches and in our relationships, for it reflects how God loves all people and calls us to form a new family—the body of Christ. But I have to remind myself regularly that even though diversity is a gift of God to be celebrated, it’s also one to be cultivated. May the Holy Spirit help us do that well. —Peter Chin
MORE
Read Acts 8:26-40 to see another example of how the Holy Spirit worked through a leader to grow diversity in the early church.
NEXT
Do your relationships reflect the beautiful diversity of the early church? What can you do to promote and protect diversity among believers in Jesus today?
