Tuesday, December 8, 2009, Day 4

Tuesday, December 8, 2009 DAY 4

STAFF SUPERVISION	Nov. 30– Dec. 11	Dec. 14 – Dec. 18
Grade 6-7 Lockers	Mrs. S. McDowell	Mr. T. Taves
Grade 8 Lockers	Mr. R. Rempel	Ms. E. Berard
Grade 9 Lockers	Mr. M. Opalko	Mr. S. Warkentine
HS Cafeteria	Ms. L. Hall	Mrs. A. Neufeld

STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES

Grade 11 Students who have not yet signed up for their Career Cruising session is asked to do so ASAP. The sign up sheet is by Mrs. Herr's office door. Time slots are available in the afternoons only. FOR YOUR APPOINTMENT, REPORT TO ROOM 7202 IN THE MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT SERVICES OFFICE.

GENERAL STUDENT/PARENT INFORMATION

IMPROV TEAM: We will meet today (Tuesday) and tomorrow in the drama room at 3:30pm. Remember there is an improv workshop during Wednesday's practice, do your best to be there!

LIBRARY NEWS

The library is holding books for the following students:

Ashley Pidwerbesky

Natalie Pesun

Breyden McIntosh

Students who ordered books at the book fair may come to the library to pick up your purchases.

BOOK FAIR VOLUNTEERS: See Mrs. Mason to pick up a thank you gift.

Emily Macdonald - please come to the library to get your $25 prize.

SCHOOL TRIPS

ATTENTION GRADES 10 & 11: For anyone interested in the Spring Break 2011 England Tour, now is the time to take advantage of discount savings. The good news is that if you enroll by December 15, you receive $50 off the Program Fee for the tour. Even more good news is that, despite prices being subject to change in the New Year, anyone who enrolls by March 31, 2010 will still enjoy the 2009 price, thanks to those that have already enrolled! For more information, please see Mr. Buhler in Room 5208.

All students in Grade 10-12 in 2011 are invited to attend an information meeting re: the EUROPEAN STUDY TOUR in 2011. Our education will begin in England and continue into France, Switzerland and Germany. Students must be enrolled in a language to participate. For more details see contact Mrs. Rew. The meeting will take place on Monday Dec. 14 at noon in room 5201.

MUSIC

Concert Band String Bass, Euphonium, and Tuba Sectional today, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 3:20 pm. Horn and Trombone are next Thursday, December 17, 3:20 pm.

SPORTS

4 on 4 Playoffs This Week: Lakers vs. Sixers Dec. 8.

Cafeteria Lunch Specials for Dec. 7 – Dec. 11 Week # 1

Monday…

Tuesday… Hot Turkey sandwich with fires or salad

Wednesday…Mexican beef soft taco served with salad

Thursday…Perogies and sour cream with smokie

Friday… Chicken Quesadilla with sour cream, salsa & tossed salad

Specials ($4.35)

Devotional Day 4, Tuesday, Dec 8, 2009

Back to Basics

1 Corinthians 13:8-13 ~ 8 Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever! 9 Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! 10 But when full understanding comes, these partial things will become useless. 11 When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. 12 Now we see things imperfectly as in a cloudy mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely. 13 Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.

Hope never stands alone. It is part of faith, and it goes with love. All three are centered in God. You can have faith, and you can have love. But they do not stand apart from hope.

We come to real hope the same way we come to real faith and real love, when we come back to our basic need, which is God himself. That’s when peripheral things are pushed aside – perhaps at a funeral, at the loss of a job, in a hospital bed. It isn’t a matter of grasping at straws or hoping against hope. Quite the opposite, it’s a coming back to what only God can give. A mother whose baby is struggling for breath isn’t thinking about her hair appointment. A young man with his legs pinned under a wrecked car isn’t thinking about missing the start of a movie. When life becomes more real, so does hope.

Hope, like love and faith, goes deep. Some reject the necessity of hope and try to skip along through life on the surface until eventually they break through. When they do, they either drown in despair or turn to grab for the hope they’ve so long pretended didn’t matter. When we get to the basics, only three things matter – faith in God, the love of God, and hope given by God.

Prayer:

Dear God – Help us not to reject your hope. It is through this hope that many of us follow you and come to enjoy a friendship like no other, a friendship with you Father. Thank you for allowing us, your creation, to also be your family.

In Jesus’ Name, Amen

by Roger C. Palms, Bible Readings on Hope, 1987.