Ready
for Your Test?
During the coming weeks, the children in third
through eighth grades will be taking the Terra Nova tests, the standardized
tests we administer every year so we can get a picture of how well the students
are learning. Some students look forward to these tests others don’t really
like them. I think that one reason some students don’t care for these tests is
because you can’t really study for them. You don’t know what the material is
going to be that you are being tested on so you don’t know how to prepare.
I don’t know how you feel about tests, I look
at a test as a challenge and I try to approach them with confidence and with a
positive attitude. I want to do my best.
Our Bible verse today talks about a testing
that all of us will undergo. In James chapter 1:2-4, we read, “Consider it pure
joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that
the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its
work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.”
We know the testing is coming in our lives. We
also know that this testing is for our good, meant to strengthen us, not to
destroy us or drive us to despair. God wants us to turn to him in this time of
trial and depend on him more and more. He will build our faith and strengthen
us through this testing. He wants us to be mature in our faith and he wants to
give us everything that we need in our struggle against the trials and
temptations we face every day. Above all, we know that God is with us in these
times of struggle and will help us overcome.
Our children will also be going through these
trials and testing. In the classroom, your children are learning God’s Word so
that they will be able to stand against the temptations they face. Their faith
will be strengthened and they will grow in their maturity and they will be
fully equipped for battle.
Chapel Services
Chapel will be led by Pastor Robbert.
Coffee selection
this week will be a Kaladi Brothers coffee.
Library Trip
The fifth through eighth graders will be going to the
library this week. They should have their reports done and will be given
another assignment.
Basketball Practice
Basketball
practice will begin this week. We will be practicing at the Mosley Center on
the Alaska Pacific University campus. Players should wear shorts and t-shirts
and court shoes not worn outside. We will be taking the students over from
school in the van. We will practice from 4:00 until 5:30 p.m. They can be
picked up at the gym at 5:30. We will bring those not picked up at the gym back
to school by 5:45.
Pick Up- Drop
Off
Please be aware of children, your own
and others, when dropping off and picking up before and after school. Be aware
of traffic flow in the parking lot. Please enter
the lot from the East entry and leave
by the West exit. If you wish to just drop off your child, please drop them
off at the CHURCH entrance and have them walk back to the school entrance in
order to keep the corner clear, or park in the lot and walk your children in,
especially if you have little ones. Please also maintain control of your
children in the lot, and BUCKLE LITTLE ONES IN before you drive away. Let’s all
work together to avoid accidents and keep our children safe!
Junior Choir
Junior Choir will be lending their
voices in worship at Shepherd of the Hills on October 16th. Choir members should be at Shepherd by 10:10
in their white and black attire.
Central African
Medical Mission (CAMM)
Are you looking for a way to serve our
Lord? Teethsavers, a non-profit
Christian organization, is teaming up with the Central Africa Medical Mission to
provide toothbrushes and toothpaste for all children seen by the Malawi
clinic. Over 60,000 patients receive
medical care at the clinic in Malawi every year. If you would like to help, please bring soft
child-sized toothbrushes to Faith and leave them in the collection boxes
located in the church and school entry ways by Sunday, October 23rd. For more information, please call Joy
Bromaghin at 336-6186.
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