Announcements 9/28/17
LUNCH TODAY: BEEF RAVIOLI W/MARINARA
LUNCH FRIDAY: FILLET O'FISH SANDWICH
LUNCH FRIDAY: FILLET O'FISH SANDWICH
DAILY ANNOUNCEMENTS
THURSDAY
SEPTEMBER 28,2017
ALL SCHOOL
LUNCH TODAY: BEEF RAVIOLI W/MARINARA
LUNCH FRIDAY: FILLET O’FISH SANDWICH
HIGH SCHOOL
Photography Club - Interest Meeting next week Thursday, 10/5 in Room 105 during HS lunch. Any high school student is welcome. No prior photography experience required. Email Mrs. Buchholz with any questions at buchholzb@flhsemail.org (10/5)
SHIELD NEWS:
THE SHIELD is gearing up for SPIRIT WEEK! Come check out our NEW Adult Sweatshirt Onesie PJ, seen in our store window. Only 36 pieces in stock…get one before they’re gone! Your favorite Crusader Plaid PJ Pants are now available in Youth, Ladies and Men's sizes…limited quantities, so get one before they’re gone! (9/29)
All HS STUDENTS: Japanese Society Meeting Thursday (September 28th) during Lunch in Room 104!
Anyone interested in Japanese culture and/or language should come to the informational meeting on Thursday at lunch or Thursday after school (if you can't come to the lunch meeting). We'll be brainstorming ideas and meeting times for the group! Email Ms. Gatewood (gatewoodl@flhsemail.org) for info or if you can't make the meeting. :) (9/28)
Mexico Mission Trip!!!
This trip is open to all current 8th grade through 10th grade students.
Trip Dates: January 12 through 18
Information Meeting: October 18th 5:30pm in Room 502
or Julie Buuck buuckj@flhsemail.org
Estimated Cost:$500-$600 (10/15)
COMMUNITY CRUSADER SERVICE HOURS OPPORTUNITY:
The Boys & Girls Club of Southern Nevada is looking for volunteers for Thursday, October 5th from 5pm – 9pm and Saturday, October 7th from 10am – 2pm.
Volunteers are needed for Boys Night Out and Girls Day an event that pairs local boys and girls club kids with members in the community for fun activities and refreshments.
Volunteers are needed for the following:·
Running a game
Managing trash pickup
Monitoring food tables and helping with cleanup
Hand out t-shirts/raffle tickets
Game/activity liaison
Refreshments will be provided to volunteers. If interested, please contact Jennifer Ramieh at (702) 253-2808 or jramieh@bgcsnv.org. (10/6)
2017-2018 Middle School & High School DECA Participants
Faith Lutheran's Business & Entrepreneurship Academy will be hosting its’ In-House DECA Competition on Saturday, October 14th, 8:00 am - 12:00 pm in the Student Center. This program is required for ALL (returning and new) Faith Lutheran High DECA participants. Students who wish to participate further in any Local, State, National, or International DECA competition this year must be a part of the In-House DECA Competition. To register, one parent needs to log on to Crusader Connect and fill out the "Form to Review". (10/13)
COMMUNITY CRUSADER SERVICE HOURS OPPORTUNITY:
Calling all Faith Lutheran Volunteers!
Mountain View Lutheran School needs your help for our annual Harvest Festival on Saturday, October 14th.
If you are able to help out anytime from 8am till 6pm, please email or call Michelle Rossmann or Samantha Linares
COMMUNITY CRUSADER SERVICE HOURS OPPORTUNITY:
Miracle League needs your help! Come be a baseball buddy for a special needs player. You don't need to have any prior knowledge of baseball, just a desire to have fun and help. For more information and to sign up check http://miracleleaguelasvegas.com/. Go to "volunteer" and then "online buddy sign up".
The dates for fall are
9/30, 10/7, 10/14, 10/21, 10/28, 11/4, 11/11
COMMUNITY CRUSADER SERVICE HOURS OPPORTUNITY:
Betsy Rhodes Elementary School
Halloween Howl
October 13th 5-8pm
each volunteer will get a meal ticket that night
Email: Kelly Nolan to sign up
nolzlv@yahoo.com (10/12)
COMMUNITY CRUSADER SERVICE HOUR OPPORTUNITY:
First Good Shepard is having their 60th School Anniversary Carnival
Sunday Oct 15 from 11-3 is the Carnival
Times needed are 10am-4pm (whatever you are able to help with)
MIDDLE SCHOOL
SHIELD NEWS:
THE SHIELD is gearing up for SPIRIT WEEK! Come check out our NEW Adult Sweatshirt Onesie PJ, seen in our store window. Only 36 pieces in stock…get one before they’re gone! Your favorite Crusader Plaid PJ Pants are now available in Youth, Ladies and Men's sizes…limited quantities, so get one before they’re gone! (9/29)
Calling all softball girls.... Optional October Work-out Thursdays
If you are interested and available to work-out at our softball in field on Thursdays in October, see Coach Rood in the girl’s locker room to sign up.
Card Trick Club!
Do you like doing card tricks? Do you want to learn how to amaze your friends? Join the card trick club! We will meet on Wednesdays from 3:20-4:00 in Room 220. Our first meeting will be October 4th. No experience necessary! Just bring a deck of cards and be ready to meet some new people! See Mrs. Burns with any questions.
FLMS 6th-8th Grade Girls' Basketball Tune Up Sessions:
Sat. Sept. 30, Oct. 21 and Nov. 4 Aux. Gym 9-10:30 a.m.
Sat. Oct. 7, Student Center Gym 9-10:30 a.m.
COST: $50 for all four sessions
Run by Coaches Joel Arnold (HS) and Lisa Schwartz (MS)
Sign up on Crusader Connect or at session. (10/6)
Mexico Mission Trip!!!
This trip is open to all current 8th grade through 10th grade students.
Trip Dates: January 12 through 18
Information Meeting: October 18th 5:30pm in Room 502
or Julie Buuck buuckj@flhsemail.org
Estimated Cost: $500-$600 (10/15)
**Attention Middle School Boys**
Preseason basketball tune-up sessions will be offered on Saturdays starting September 30, in the Aux Gym. Check Crusader Connect for sign up forms and prices. Email Coach Stelzer, stelzerw@flhsemail.org, Cy Frederick frederickc@flhsemail.org or Nikki Driscoll, nikki.driscoll@flhsemail.org with questions. (9/29)
**Attention Middle School Girls**
Preseason basketball tune-up sessions will be offered on Saturdays starting September 30, in the Aux Gym. Check Crusader Connect for sign up forms and prices. Email Coach Schwartz, schwartzl@flhsemail.org , Cy Frederick, frederickc@flhsemail.org or Nikki Driscoll, nikki.driscoll@flhsemail.org with questions. (9/29)
ATTENTION ALL MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRLS
Want to play the fastest game on two feet? Girls lacrosse meeting Thursday, Sept. 28th at 3:30 pm in Room 503. Meet the high school coaches and hear plans for the upcoming spring season. All experience levels welcome. If unable to attend, please email flhslaxmom@gmail.com. (9/28)
DEVOTIONAL
A Prayer for When Getting What You Wanted Wasn’t Enough
By Betsy St. Amant Haddox
“Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations.” – Deuteronomy 7:9
As a young woman, I believed that getting married was the ultimate fairy tale. Cinderella found her Prince, and all was well. Happily ever after, right? Then I got married, and I figured, no, happiness was actually found in cementing marriage with children. After all, there’s always a sequel to the Disney movie. Then I reckoned, surely happiness lay in getting a novel published and accomplishing a longtime dream.
One daughter, fourteen novels and one divorce later, I found myself still unhappy, still achy and longing. But I chalked it up to the fact that I’d been abandoned by my ex and I simply needed to replace my happily ever after with a new one. I needed Prince Charming to slip that glass high-heel on my freshly pedicured toes. Then I’d have what I wanted.
Four bad relationships later, I realized glass slippers were really hard to walk in (plus, I could never figure out that trademark loose-tendril-Princess-bun) Prince Charming didn’t exist.
Well, I was right—and wrong. It turns out there is a Prince, but I’d confused His identity with ones in fleshly form.
Something God has been teaching me (the hard way!) is that there is no dream that is deeply fulfilling outside of Him. As a woman who has now walked through divorce, multiple relationships, engagement and re-marriage, He is showing me—daily—that while there is happiness and blessings, it's all empty without Him in first place. The moment He slides out of order in my priority line up, nothing satisfies anymore.
When we seek after God first, the rest falls into place. Much like Cinderella’s step-sisters squeezing their toes into a shoe not meant for them—when we quit trying to force our relationships, jobs and circumstances to validate and define us, we can rest in the embrace of the true Prince.
It’s not always easy. It’s a daily fight, but the victory is already ours in Christ.
Now go live like it.
