Announcements 11/17/17

LUNCH TODAY: CHICKEN BURRITO
NEXT WEEK: THANKSGIVING BREAK!!!!! HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

DAILY ANNOUNCEMENTS

FRIDAY

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

ALL SCHOOL

LUNCH TODAY: CHICKEN BURRITO

NEXT WEEK: THANKSGIVING BREAK!!!!!! HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

HIGH SCHOOL

HS PHOTO CLUBMeeting TODAY (Friday) during HS Lunch in Room 105.

COMMUNITY CRUSADER SERVICE HOURS OPPORTUNITY:

Faith Community Lutheran Church needs student volunteers to help with their Women's Christmas Tea. Opportunities to serve on Saturday, December 2nd or Sunday, Dec 3rd. If you are in need of service hours, please contact Kimberly Arkens arkensmt@gmail.com to find out about the various ways you can help.

If you have misplaced an item, be sure to check the lost and found!All items will be transported to the Thrift Store at the end of school THIS FRIDAY, NOV. 17!!!!

Calling all girls lacrosse players at all skill levels -Fall Ball practices will start after Thanksgiving and will be every Tuesday and Thursday from 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm on the Faith Soccer Fields. Please email flhslaxmom@gmail.com for the complete schedule or check the girls’ lacrosse athletic pages. (11/28)

DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT THAT YOU WANT TO SHOW OFF?

Then come audition for the talent show! Auditions will be on Tuesday, November 27th from 3-5:30pm in the Student Leadership Room.

To sign up for auditions email Pierce Taylor at pt8769@flhsemail.org or Bailey Friel at bf0221@flhsemail.org.

Not interested in trying out? Come support your friends in the CPAC on December 6th from 5-7pm.

You won't want to miss this!

Used skateboards and skateboard decks needed! A Faith AP art student is creating a series of paintings on skateboard decks and is in need of used ones to paint. If you have one to donate, please drop in off in room 104 for Kayla Kujaczinski. Decks can be any size and in any condition. (12/21)

Interested in going to LA for a mission trip?!There will be a group leaving in March to Los Angeles California from 3/6/18- 3/10/18. information for this mission trip can be found with Mr. Heupel in room 55. There will be an informational meeting about the LA mission trip in the library at 5:30 in Thursday, November 30. Parents and students are welcome to attend. (11/30)

COMMUNITY CRUSADER SERVICE HOURS OPPORTUNITY:

Nevada Youth Network is looking for a few volunteers to assist at Marble Manor (912 Gerson Avenue, LV, NV 89106) each Wednesday from 5:30pm - 7:00pm. Volunteers will help students with their homework and play games in their community room.
If you have interest, please sign up at www.uwsn.org/individual-volunteers - Marble Manor Homework Helpers. For additional information, please feel free to contact Celina Pena, Nevada Youth Network Volunteer Program Manager at 702-672-9845 or nevadayouthnetwork@gmail.com. (11/17)

Auditions for new members of the Faith Conservatory of the Fine Arts 2018-2019 are coming up in January for all current 8^th-11^th graders.

Music: Instrumental and Vocal: Saturday, January 27^th, from 9:00-12:00.

Theatre: Performance and Technical: Saturday, January 20^th, from 10:00-4:00

Dance: Saturday, January 20^th, from 9:30-11:30

Visual Arts: Portfolios Due: Tuesday, January 16^th

Interviews: Monday & Tuesday, January 22^nd-23^rd

Sign up for a time slot outside of Ms. Emily Slater’s (the Dean of Fine Arts) office in the CPAC or email her at SlaterE@FLHSemail.org for more information.

PRINCETON REVIEW ACT CLASS

In cooperation with Princeton Review, Faith Lutheran is offering Princeton Review's Ultimate ACT course on campus, which includes 25 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 Dec. 9 and runs mostly Monday and Wednesday evenings from 6:30 to 8:30 PM through Feb. 7 leading up to the February ACT. Exact dates for the classes are listed below. To sign up please fill out the form at this link by Nov. 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.

Winter ACT - 2018

12/9 Test 1

12/11 Class 1

12/13 Class 2

1/8 Class 3

1/10 Class 4

1/13 Test 2

1/16 Class 5

1/17 Class 6

1/22 Class 7

1/24 Class 8

1/27 Test 3

1/29 Class 9

1/31 Class 10

2/3 Test 4

2/5 Class 11

2/7 Class 12 (11/17)

MIDDLE SCHOOL

LION KING IS COMING-- ARE YOU READY? Auditions for the MS production of Lion King will happen in Mid-December. The directors will be hosting a clinic for movement (dance and puppets!) for the show. There will be two offerings of this fun and preparatory class. They will be Saturday Dec 2 and Saturday 16 from 1-6p. The cost is $50. Not interested in auditioning but still want to learn about these things? That is totally OK. You may only sign up for one of the two session, as each will cap at 30 students. (Please note - partaking in the event does NOT guarantee casting in The Lion King Jr., nor does not enrolling hurt your chances. Directors also reserve the right to cancel with full refund if not enough people enroll. Students involved with Ozma cannot sign up for the first weekend, as they should be all about Ozma.) Please email Mr. Elliott or Mrs. Wheat for more details. Signups should occur through the business office to put the charge on your account.

Hakuna Matata.

If you have misplaced an item, be sure to check the lost and found!All items will be transported to the Thrift Store at the end of school THIS FRIDAY, NOV. 17!!!!

Auditions for new members of the Faith Conservatory of the Fine Arts 2018-2019 are coming up in January for all current 8^th-11^th graders.

Music: Instrumental and Vocal: Saturday, January 27^th, from 9:00-12:00.

Theatre: Performance and Technical: Saturday, January 20^th, from 10:00-4:00

Dance: Saturday, January 20^th, from 9:30-11:30

Visual Arts: Portfolios Due: Tuesday, January 16^th

Interviews: Monday & Tuesday, January 22^nd-23^rd

Sign up for a time slot outside of Ms. Emily Slater’s (the Dean of Fine Arts) office in the CPAC or email her at SlaterE@FLHSemail.org for more information.

DEVOTIONAL

A Prayer to Catch Your Breath

By Max Lucado

“Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and so that the slave born in your household and the foreigner living among you may be refreshed.” Exodus 23:12 (NIV)

God designed time for rest to be taken daily and weekly. He told Moses and the Israelites, “Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and so that the slave born in your household and the foreigner living among you may be refreshed” (Exodus 23:12).

This was not a suggestion, recommendation or piece of practical advice. This was a command: Rest! Once a week let the system reboot. Once a week, let the entire household slow down. The Israelite who violated this law paid for the sin with his or her life.

Today the “death penalty” is still in effect, but it gradually comes from overwork, stress and anxiety.

The Bible doesn’t see rest as a sign of weakness or laziness, but as a mark of reverence. To observe a Sabbath day of rest is to announce, “God knows what I need more than I do. If He says to rest, I will rest.” And, as we do, our bodies and minds are refreshed.

Never has rest been more important. We move at too fast a pace and our adrenaline spigots seldom shut off. Racing for late-night flights and adding early-morning meetings, we’re stretched beyond our limits. High adrenaline output depletes the brain’s natural tranquilizers and sets the stage for high anxiety. Many of us learned to associate relaxation with irresponsibility, so we might need some rewiring.

These are some tips I’ve learned to try:

· Don’t overdo it.Understand your limits. If you think you have no limits, then you have more than most people.

· Once you reach your limits, stop. Don’t work until you drop. Find a pace of life that works for you, and stick to it.

· Maintain regular breaks during the day. Naps are biblical.

· Give your mind a rest from technology. Turn off, unplug, detach from social media, news and all the tech toys that deplete energy.

· Learn to relax. To relax is to disengage and let go. An hour or daylong Sabbath is not the time to catch up with work. It is a time to entrust my work to God. After all, He worked for six days and then rested. The world didn’t fall apart. It won’t for me either.

God promised to supply the Hebrews with manna each day. But He told them to collect only one day’s supply at a time. Those who disobeyed and collected enough for two days found themselves with rotten manna. The only exception was the day prior to the Sabbath. On Friday, they could gather twice as much. Otherwise, God gave them what they needed, in their time of need.

Doesn’t each day have its share of challenges? Some of them repeat themselves over time; others are one-day specials.

I’ve learned the key to tranquility and true rest is to face today’s problems and no more, to treat each day like a self-contained unit. Here are today’s problems. Meet them with God’s strength. But I don’t have to start tackling tomorrow’s problems until tomorrow. I don’t have tomorrow’s strength yet. I simply have enough for today. And I can’t cross a bridge until I reach it.

So what to do?

Find a parking place for tomorrow’s problems. When they surface, write them down, and mentally drive them into a parking garage and leave them there.

Don’t over-stress your coping skills. Emotional energy is finite. Give yourself permission to say, “I will solve this tomorrow. By sunrise I will be replenished physically and mentally. Every day is a fresh start, so I will start fresh in the morning.”

Shut the gate on yesterday, and don’t touch the gate on tomorrow.

You no longer have yesterday. You do not yet have tomorrow. You only have today. Live in it!

Dear Lord, break me of the need to be busy pursuing a sense of self-worth. Make me secure in who You are and who You’ve made me to be, and as a result, teach me what it means to truly rest. Help me catch my breath. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

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