Monday, April 12th, 2010 Day 5
Monday, April 12th, 2010 Day 5
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STAFF SUPERVISION |
April 12 – April 23 |
April 26 - May 7 |
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Grade 6-7 Lockers |
Ms. L. Dowbenko |
Mrs. S. McDowell |
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Grade 8 Lockers |
Mr. R. Rempel |
Ms. E. Berard |
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Grade 9 Lockers |
Mr. M. Opalko |
Mr. S. Warkentine |
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HS Cafeteria |
Ms. R. Zimmermann |
Ms. L. Hall |
UNIVERSITY & COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP/AWARD INFORMATION
Upcoming Scholarship Deadlines:
MTS Pursue Your Calling - $1,000 for college or university bound students planning a career in Business, Engineering, Computer Science or Technology; summer employment opportunities. Deadline: April 23, 2010.
See Mrs. Herr for more information or the bulletin board by her office.
GENERAL STUDENT NEWS
Job Opportunity: A downtown church is looking for a caretaker - responsibilities include cleaning, security and event set-ups required for 10-15 hrs. per week. If interested, see Mrs. Herr or the posting on the bulletin board by her office. Applications are being accepted until April 26.
MUSIC
The Grade 6 and Grade 7 Bands are doing their most important performance of the school year tomorrow Tuesday morning at the MBA Level 1 Festival at NKMB Church. Good luck, band students as you represent MBCI at this event!
Grade 6 Band - Tuesday morning, get straight on the bus for the Festival at 8:25 am when it arrives, in your complete uniform and with all your stuff. Bus will leave at 8:30 am.
Grade 7 Band - Tuesday morning, be in the band room in your complete uniform and with all your stuff ready to rehearse at the first bell at 8:00 am. We will load the van and board the bus at 8:25 am. Bus will leave at 8:30 am.
Senior Jazz Band: You will rehearse at lunch today using the CB folding stands you would be in front of for SJB.
Junior Vocal Jazz: The girls meet today at lunch in the choir room.
SPORTS
MBCI Golf Team: All golfers from grades 9-12 are asked to contact Mr. Plett about their interest in being part of MBCI's Golf Team. There is a KPAC Golf League this year and all participating schools in KPAC will be involved in match play matches against teams from other schools once a week starting in May. An Evaluation Day is planned for April 28 where all golfers from the participating KPAC schools will be in a stroke play event to determine their school's tier placing.
All Grade 10 and 11 girls interested in playing volleyball for the Varsity girls team next year please meet in Mr. Plett's classroom (5202) at 12:00 noon today.
All grade 10-12 basketball players please meet with Mr. O and Mr. Goossen Monday, April 12, at lunch in Mr. Opalko's room (#5107).
A tryout/practice for boys and girls Varsity Soccer Teams will take place on Wednesday, April 14 and Thursday April 15 at 4:00 pm at the field North East (across Brazier) of MBCI. If you need to contact coaches please call #995-3018 (Michelle) or #999-7502 (Andrew) or #295-1403 (Kaitlin). GO HAWKS!!!
Gr. 9 Badminton: Practices this week today @ 3:30 in the Red Gym and Wednesday @ 5:30 in the Blue Gym.
Cafeteria Lunch Specials For This Week
Monday… Beef and bean burrito with soup or wedges
Tuesday… Greek gyro in a pita with Tzatziki sauce & a choice of Greek salad or baked potato wedges
Wednesday… B.B.Q. chicken, sweet potato fries & coleslaw
Thursday…..Quesadilla with soup or onion rings
Friday….Spaghetti & Meat sauce with Garden Salad
Specials ($4.35)
Devotional Day 5, Monday, April 12, 2010
Regardless
Galatians 3:26-28 ~ 26 For you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 And all who have been united with Christ in baptism have put on Christ, like putting on new clothes. 28 There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Most North Americans and Europeans picture Jesus looking something like a youngish Harrison Ford – brown hair, brown eyes, handsome. Oh yeah – and he’s also white. Caucasian. Tanned, most likely, but definitely white.
That’s a racist myth – a falsehood spread by people and movements for centuries. The Ku Klux Klan, for example, preaches the supremacy of white Protestants over blacks and Jews, among others. They think that Jesus was white like them, so he must be on their side. In the early days of Hitler’s Nazi movement, Jesus’ death was used to incite the masses against Jews. The Nazis expounded white Aryan supremacy, also assuming that Jesus was white, so he must support their cause.
This racist myth persists today. People still characterize Jesus as an Anglo-Saxon Savior, painting him with pink and peach tones and ascribing to him the complexion, class, and customs of their Anglo-Saxon imaginations. But Jesus was neither white nor middle class. In all probability, Jesus was far darker in complexion than the average Caucasian. As a Jew, his swarthy Middle Eastern heritage was probably accentuated when he stood beside Pilate, a fair-skinned Roman.
Even though Jesus possessed specific racial characteristics, he is bigger than barriers of race and color. He was a Jew, yet he spoke freely and respectfully to a Samaritan woman (John 4:4-30). As a Jew, custom prohibited him from entering the home of a Gentile – a non-Jew. Yet when a Roman army officer asked for help for his servant who lay sick at home, Jesus went to the home and healed him (Luke 7:2-10). When he was hounded by a Canaanite woman – Canaanites were historic enemies of the Jewish people – Jesus commended her faith and healed her daughter (Matthew 15:21-28). He was a victim of racial prejudice too. On one trip through Samaria, he was rejected because the Samaritans knew he was Jewish (Luke 9:53).
Jesus lived in a society that determined people’s rights, privileges, and status by their race (Jew or Gentile), class (slave or free), and gender (male or female). As Paul points out in Galatians 3:26-28, Jesus turned those prejudices upside down. As Jesus’ followers, we have the chance to be like him – not in matching his skin color or racial characteristics, but in accepting and loving people regardless of sex, class, or race.
Prayer: Dear God – Help us to overcome prejudices of sex, class, or race. You love each of us equally with all of our unique attributes. Help us to love as you do.
In Jesus’ Name, Amen
by Josh McDowell, Youth Devotions 2, 2003.