“And the turtles, of course …all the turtles are free as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.”
7/8th Bible - Answer the question, Where did Jesus go during the 3 days he was in the tomb?
5/6th Eng/Lit/Etymol
serv, vari, eas, and fin — Define and be prepared to take a cumulative quiz Tuesday on these words and all the root words we have learned up to this point.
7/8 Eng/Lit/Etymol
tropos, philia, phobos, syn, serv, vari, eas, and fin — Define and be prepared to take a cumulative quiz Tuesday on these words and all the root words we have learned up to this point.
OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD - Sunday November 11th
7th and 8th graders and parents this is one of the five super opportunities for preparing for our Baja Mission trip. You will recall at our meeting that we want to serve in at least two service projects before the mission trip. Well this is one great opportunity to fulfill one of those requirements.
This is also our H2O project. We will get the opportunity to welcome guests, to help with logistics, wear our logo shirts, represent the school, serve others, contribute to the building of the Kingdom, and ministering to others thru OCC.
More service projects coming:
* Where: Bright Hope International, 2060
Stonington Ave, Hoffman Estates, IL 60169,
224-520-6100 ext.6110
The group I work with meets every 4th Monday of the month. Give me a call if you you can’t make it on this date, and I will try and arrange another Monday.
WILLOW CREEK FOOD PANTRY — TBA (January 12 - 8:30 - 10:30 am)
Note: Willow Creek Food pantry is located in the same building as the Bright Hope Ministry. The groups I work with meet every Saturday and Sunday morning from 8:30 to 10:30 and I do believe there is another shift that starts later around 11:00 or so. I will need to confirm, but if you can’t make the date I will be glad to arrange another time.
The cover reads: The true story of a remarkable woman’s south of the border adventures and miraculous faith in God. Charla’s Children by Charla Pereau is not the most eloquently written book I’ve ever read, but the beauty of this book is not just words, but the true life adventures of a woman who discovered she had a great big God in her, and this God had a huge adventure for her. When you read this you can be thinking about the adventure you have started this year. Each one of you is taking a step toward a God adventure. Each one of you is writing a story about something you can’t stand. Something God has put on your heart, because He can’t stand it either. Charla couldn’t bare to see these lost, hurting, starving, homeless, hopeless, abused, and exploited children, and she and God did something about it. You are going to get to experience her adventure first hand, but even before that you can start living your own God adventure as you write your stories!
NOTE: I have only one copy of this book in the library, and I believe Mrs. Sullivan has a copy. You can order the book from the FFHM website www.ffhm.org
Peter, President of the board of FFHM, spoke at our last chapel, and the following is a short quiz given in many of our NCA classes:
Chapel Questions for 10/25/07 with Peter from FFHM
1. Where was our speaker from this week?
A: FFHM or Foundation for His Ministry
2. Where is FFHM located?
A: In Mexico; In Baja, Mexico; Baja California; Michoacan; Oaxca
3. What is unique about the border crossing into Mexico that the 7/8th graders will pass through to get to Mexico?
A: It is the busiest border crossing in all of North America
4. What is a Migrant Farmer?
A: A person who leaves his home to migrate wherever there is farm work
5. What do many of the Migrant Farmers live in?
A: Card board boxes
6. There was a round rock with a hole in the middle of it in front of their Mission building. Do you remember what it was called?
A: Millstone
7. What did Jesus say if someone hurt one of his little children.
A: He said it would be better if a person tied a millstone around their neck and be thrown into the sea than hurt one of his children.
8. How do they raise funds for operating the Mission?
A: They don’t. Or They pray daily for God to meet all their needs.
9. What is central to FFHM, and the mission would fail if this was not done?
A: Prayer
10. Name three ministries of the FFHM.
A: There are many: Orphanage, School, Medical Center, Bible College, Special Needs ministry, Migrant Camp Evangelism, Day Care Center, Orchard and more
11. True or False – The little children don’t have to do any work or chores?
A: False
12. What did a poor girl sitting in the speaker’s lap for an hour watching the Jesus film do to him?
A: It changed the Speaker’s life forever.
13. Why didn’t the wheel chairs work in the camps?
A: The thin tires on the wheel chair wouldn’t go in the sand and mud of the camps.
14. What did the Special Needs ministry do to overcome this problem?
A: They replaced the tires with mountain bike tires.
15. What was the meal the FFHM ministers gave to the children in the camps?
A: Peanut butter and milk
16. True or False – This might be their only meal of the day.
A: True
17. True or False — Children live in the dumps where people throw their trash near the Mission.
A: True
18. What is the sign over the door of the Mission building?
A: You’ll never be the same!
I’ve had some concerned parents ask about the examples I gave in the Reading Journal Grading Rubric. Please don’t be concerned, because I’m not expecting the students to journal like myself, but I want them to have something to shoot at. I don’t want to set the bar too low. I am grading them on the agreed upon number of items in each rubric category, and I am grading them on their grade level skills. In other words I’m not expecting a 5th grader to journal at a High School level.
Thanks for your concerns, and please email me any other questions you may have.
If I could have only one book besides the Bible — This would be the book. C.S. Lewis is pure genuis when it comes to making sense of Christianity. If you believe that Christianity is only for the uneducated and simple minded this book is for you. I believe each chapter is a challenge to your intellect and your spirit. I have much more to say.
Study and be prepared for list of new root words below. Also be prepared for quiz over God’s World News — Professor Wordbrain, Defineline, and Top stories.
deli, ques, part, studi, photos, graph, tele, metron
Write out a mission statement using Biblical reference in changing your world.
e.g. Luke passage on — a person’s worth is not measured by his possessions — I hate the greediness of this world, and how greed causes people to abuse others and to exploit others just for the almighty dollar. My desire is to eliminate greed in all its ugliness wherever it may be; starting first in my own life and working outward to my family, my school, my church, my local government and finally the world. I want to help people to see they will be much richer if they worship God and not money.
Continue reading and journaling.
Study and be prepared for list of new root words.
deli, ques, part, studi
Write out a mission statement using Biblical reference in changing your world.
e.g. Luke passage on — a person’s worth is not measured by his possessions — I hate the greediness of this world, and how greed causes people to abuse others and to exploit others just for the almighty dollar. My desire is to eliminate greed in all its ugliness wherever it may be; starting first in my own life and working outward to my family, my school, my church, my local government and finally the world. I want to help people to see they will be much richer if they worship God and not money.
Continue reading and journaling.
Praying back God’s word is the most powerful prayer you can pray!
This morning I prayed a prayer for all of you from Eph. 3:14-21. I would like you to on occasion pray this for your classmates as I prayed it for you. Substitute the “you” in the passage with your classmates names.
This time I will pray it using the Message paraphrase:
My response is to get down on my knees before the Father, this magnificent Father who parcels out all heaven and earth. I ask him to strengthen (you) — Alex, David, Felicia, Brie, Morgan, Tyler, Grace, Krista, Linde, Faith, Britt, Ari, Jenna R, Evan, JC, Kelly, Jon, and Geddy by his Spirit — not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength — that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in. And I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love, Alex, David, Felicia, Brie, Morgan, Tyler, Grace, Krista, Linde, Faith, Britt, Ari, Jenna R, Evan, JC, Kelly, Jon, and Geddy will be able to to take in with all Christians the extravagant dimensions of Christ’s love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights! Live full lives, full in the fullness of God.
God can do anything, you know — far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us.
Glory to God in the Church!
Glory to God in the Messiah, in Jesus!
Glory down all the generations!
Glory through all millennia! Oh, Yes!
After reflecting on the story I read from Ann Kiemel’s book I’m Out to Change My World, I would like you to add onto your answer to the question below.
Now that we have established that faith, trust and believe is one in the same, and that what makes you a Christian is Jesus, and that is accomplished only by you allowing Him to come into your life by repenting of your sins and asking for his forgiveness and believing, trusting and having faith that He died for you and rose from the dead so that He can come inside you and make you a Christian, now that we have established all that; we need to answer the following question:
If Jesus, God, the Holy Spirit is living in you; WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
What are the implications of the God of the universe living inside of you?
This is your home work for Wednesday, October 24, 2007. God speed.
