Announcements 11/9/18
NOVEMBER 9, 2018
ALL SCHOOL
LUNCH TODAY: MEATBALL SUBS
MONDAY: VETERAN’S DAY – NO SCHOOL
LUNCH TUESDAY: WINGS
DAILY ANNOUNCEMENTS
FRIDAY
NOVEMBER 9, 2018
ALL SCHOOL
LUNCH TODAY: MEATBALL SUBS
MONDAY: VETERAN’S DAY – NO SCHOOL
LUNCH TUESDAY: WINGS
HIGH SCHOOL
The African American Celebration meeting will be cancelled for this Friday 11/9
COMMUNITY CRUSADER SERVICE HOURS OPPORTUNITY:
Faith Community Women's Christmas Tea is looking for help the following days:
Saturday, Dec 1 from 9:00-noon or longer (guys and gals)
Sunday, Dec 2 from 3:30 - 6:30 for butler duty (guys only - white dress shirt and dark pants)
Sunday, Dec 2 from 6:45 - 9:00 clean up and put away tables and decorations (guys and gals)
Contact Amy Michaelson 702-755-8869 or michaelson_family@msn.com
butlers, contact no later than Nov 25th (11/25).
Girls' Soccer players- equipment check-in will be Thursday, 11/15, after school at 2:45pm in Rm 500.
Online Health Sign-up for High School Students
If you are in need of completing your high school health credit, the Spring 1 session of online Health begins January 14. If you would like to be enrolled in this class, you must fill out the form at this link by Friday January 4 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?fromEmail=true&formkey=dEJZNUFJWENFaTBlYW83cHBnNzdxcmc6MQ. You will be charged an extra $350 on your tuition bill for this class if you are not enrolled in a study hall, early dismissal or late arrival for the 2018-2019 school year. If you took Health in 8th grade here at Faith or have taken Health at Las Vegas Day School, Adelson, Cornerstone, Alexander Dawson or The Meadows in 7th or 8th grade, your high school Health requirement is already complete and you do not need this class. I’m sorry but CCSD middle school Health is not cleared to count for high school credit by the state. Contact Dan Buikema at buikemad@flhsemail.org if you have any questions. (1/4)
Due to an overwhelming response, we have completed our registration early and have filled all the spots for the Baja Bound Mexico mission team - January 2019!! All Glory to God!
COMMUNITY CRUSADER SERVICE HOURS EVENT:
Alicia Renee' Foundation is hosting a fundraising event at Craig Ranch Park in North Las Vegas on November 10, 2018. The event is from 8 am - 3 pm. We will need volunteers to work the booths. The Alicia Renee' foundation helps assist parents who have lost a child at birth. To sign up, contact Lisa at lisa@aliciareneefoundation.org. (11/9)
SAT & ACT Class
In cooperation with Princeton Review, Faith Lutheran is offering Princeton Review's Ultimate combined ACT & SAT 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 January 26 and will run mostly Monday and Wednesday evenings from 6:30 to 8:30 PM, concluding just before the March SAT and April ACT. The following class will begin with a practice test on April 6 and will run mostly Monday and Wednesday evenings from 6:30 to 8:00 PM, concluding just before the June SAT and June ACT. Exact dates for the classes are listed below. To sign up please fill out the form at this link by January 11 for the Winter class or by March 22 for the Spring class. REGISTER 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 with questions.
Winter SAT/ACT 2019
1/26 Test 1
1/28 Class 1
1/30 Class 2
2/4 Class 3
2/6 Class 4
2/9 Test 2
2/11 Class 5
2/13 Class 6
2/19 Class 7
2/20 Class 8
2/23 Test 3
2/25 Class 9
2/27 Class 10
3/2 Test 4
3/4 Class 11
3/6 Class 12
Spring SAT/ACT 2019
4/6 Test 1
4/8 Class 1
4/10 Class 2
4/23 Class 3
4/24 Class 4
4/27 Test 2
4/29 Class 5
5/1 Class 6
5/13 Class 7
5/15 Class 8
5/18 Test 3
5/20 Class 9
5/22 Class 10
5/25 Test 4
5/28 Class 11
5/29 Class 12
(3/22)
All boys trying out for basketball must turn in their Register My Athlete Certificate of Completion to Coach Walter or Coach Cattau by Friday, November 9th. Tryouts are Saturday, November 10th. Freshmen and Sophomores are from 8:30 - 10am, and Juniors and seniors are from 10am - 12pm. (11/9)
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN PLAYING COLLEGE ATHLETICS, KEEP READING...
IF YOU ARE PARTICIPATING IN HIGH SCHOOL / CLUB SPORTS AND ARE INTERESTED IN PLAYING IN COLLEGE, THEN MAKE SURE YOU ATTEND THE COLLEGE SPORTS RECRUITING SEMINAR on TUESDAY NOVEMBER 13, 2018, 7:00 PM FAITH LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL. THE SEMINAR WILL BE CONDUCTED BY ATHLETIC QUEST® A GROUP OF CURRENT AND FORMER COLLEGE COACHES. COME TO LEARN MORE, ASK QUESTIONS AND FIND OUT WHAT YOU MAY NEED TO DO. BRING YOUR PARENTS. LEARN ABOUT COLLEGE RECRUITING FROM COLLEGE COACHES!
Any student who has been studying an AP Course through Independent Study and would like to take an AP Exam should make an appointment with Mrs. Washington to register for the exam. The deadline for registration is November 9th.
MIDDLE SCHOOL
The African American Celebration meeting will be cancelled for this Friday 11/9
Hey, middle schoolers!Are you interested in practicing card tricks with your friends? Do you want to hang out on Wednesdays after school to do that? If so, send Mrs. Burns an email at burnsc@flhsemail.org. The card trick club didn't start back up yet this year, but it can if there is interest!
Due to an overwhelming response, we have completed our registration early and have filled all the spots for the Baja Bound Mexico mission team - January 2019!! All Glory to God!
All Middle School Girls Interested in Basketball Cheer
An informational meeting for 6th, 7th and 8th grade girls who would like to try out for basketball cheer will be held on Wednesday, November 14th at 3:20 in Room 503, in the Aux Gym. Tryouts will be Monday and Tuesday, November 26th and 27th in the new area of the Student Center. Contact Coach Frederick with any questions, frederickc@flhsemail.org. (11/14)
6th Grade Boys Basketball
An informational meeting for 6th grade boys who would like to try out for basketball will be held on Wednesday, November 14th at 6:00 pm in Room 502 in the Aux Gym. Tryouts will run December 10th – 14th from 5:30 -7:00 pm in the Student Center. Contact Coach Frederick with any questions. frederickc@flhsemil.org (11/14)
DEVOTIONAL
Daily Lectionary: Jeremiah 20:1-18; Matthew 24:29-51
For when I spoke, I cried out; I shouted, “Violence and plunder!” Because the word of the LORD was made to me a reproach and a derision daily. (Jeremiah 20:8)
In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. Wait a minute. Isn’t the Word of God supposed to be a good thing? Isn’t it supposed to bring comfort and joy and peace and happiness and all that? It didn’t to Jeremiah. When he preached it, he got in big trouble. He was nearly killed several times. The Word of God got Jeremiah into a lot of trouble!
The Word of God is like that. To those outside the Church, the Word is silly, foolish. It’s so dumb that people want to kill Christians just to shut them up.
But to us, the people of God, the Word of God IS a great comfort and joy. It does bring peace and gladness. But that’s not because we can use it to show up the world and bring shame to others. It brings comfort because it makes a promise. The Bible promises that for Jesus’ sake, all your sins are forgiven and you are going to have everlasting life.
When Jesus died on the cross, He died for all people. He even died for the people who hated Him and who hate His people. Even the people who hate you.
The Word’s promise is that you have eternal life even beyond this one. There is indeed a time of suffering in which the Lord is teaching you that you can’t trust in yourself, only in Jesus. The time will come when the Lord will come back, the dead will be raised and all things will be put right.
Until that day, we don’t know whether God’s Word will convert some people or not. We don’t know if the enemies of the Gospel will become Christians. The Holy Spirit can certainly accomplish that through His Word.
But it is in His Word whereby we have true comfort. For in that Word we have the Good News that saves us from all things. This is the Good News of Jesus. It is the Good News Jeremiah looked for and hoped in but that now, for us, has come to pass and we know it’s all worked out in the Name + of Jesus. Amen.
Yet even though I suffer The world’s unpleasantness, And thought the days grow rougher And bring me great distress, That day of bliss divine, Which knows no end or measure, And Christ, who is my pleasure, Forever shall be mine. (From God Can Nothing Move Me, LSB 713:6)
