On Your Calendar!

☻Mon. Dec. 4

             ☻Girl’s Basketball 2:30-5:00 p.m. 

                 Pick-up at Arthur Street Gym

☺Tues. Dec. 5

             ☺Snacks available for 50¢

             ☺12:15-2:00 Tone Chimes tour

                 (Laurel Mall and assisted living                  home)

             ☺Boy’s Basketball 2:30-4:25 p.m.

                 Pick-up at Arthur Street Gym

             ☺7:00 p.m. Term Paper mtg. for                  5th and 6th grade parents

☻Wed. Dec. 6

             ☻chapel at 8:10 The third graders                  will recite a poem. All are wel-                 come 

             ☻Girl’s Basketball 2:30-5:00 p.m. 

                 Pick-up at Arthur Street Gym

☺Thurs. Dec. 7

             ☺Scrip orders due

             ☺Girl’s Chamber Choir practice                  2:30-3:15 p.m.

             ☺Home Game in Basketball—                 details are coming

☻Fri. Dec. 8

             ☻Boy’s Basketball 2:30-5:00 p.m.

                 Pick-up at Arthur Street Gym

Ways We Communicate Our Disgust

             Knit eyebrows.

             Shake of the head with a frown of disapproval.

             “What part of no, don’t you understand?!”

             Sighs of exasperation.

             “I told you a hundred times to bring home your books!”

             (with great reasoning tone of voice) “You need to be responsible with your work or you’ll grow up to be a slovenly worker.

             Arm-crossed stance.

             “I can’t believe you did that again!”

 

(As parents who have seen a world that is falling apart and have feared for our children, we communicate those fears, concerns, and worry in ways that are destructive.  It is a worldview problem.  We are not believing that the love of Christ wins!  We are overwhelmed with life and not believing that there is a King who will come and make it all right.  We have lost our vision of Jesus Christ using humans - US! - in the process of redemption of this fallen world.  We misunderstand the importance of communicating that hope to our children.  We have mingled our church attendance with worshiping at the altar of our culture’s idols.  These continue to speak faulty worldviews to us and the deadly spiral continues.  We have satisfied our pleasures in ways that satisfy for only a moment.  We have conveyed a gospel of hopelessness by making ourselves out to be better than others and all that they need to do is ‘get their act together!’  

             Solution: Focus on Jesus Christ and His love for a lost and broken world.  Fall on Him and repent of fears.  Find Him sufficient for just today. (Tomorrow will worry about itself.)

Information Corner

● Help!  A 12:00-12:30 position of watching the high school lunchroom on Wednesdays needs to be filled.  Also from 2:20-2:35 on Tuesdays and Fridays we need a car monitor after school.  If you can help, call the school office.

● School Closings— listen on all major TV stations or radio for Immanuel Christian School.

● Some people actually fall asleep in the dentist’s chair!  If you wake up before you have to “open wide,”  ask him if he’d like to take out an ad in our yearbook.  $30.00 gets him advertising to about 80 families in the Hazleton area.