Announcements 9/15/23
LUNCH TODAY: Pasta Bowl & Bread Stick, Chicken Tenders, Pizza, Crispy Chicken sandwich
LUNCH Monday: Orange Chicken w/rice or noodles, chicken tenders, Pizza, Buffalo chicken sandwich & fries
DAILY ANNOUNCEMENTS
September 15, 2023
LUNCH TODAY: Pasta Bowl & Bread Stick, Chicken Tenders, Pizza, Crispy Chicken sandwich
LUNCH Monday: Orange Chicken w/rice or noodles, chicken tenders, Pizza, Buffalo chicken sandwich & fries
Concessions will be serving some sandwiches and wraps
after school.
HIGH SCHOOL ANNOUNCEMENTS
Communities in Schools is seeking assistance with some invitation assembly for an upcoming event. We have several hundred sneaker-shaped invitations with grommets that need to be "laced" with actual shoelaces and stuffed in envelopes for an upcoming event to benefit children in our community. Despite being very last minute, we could use help from 4 pm - 6 pm on Friday, 9/15, as well as Saturday 9/16 from 9 am - 12 pm and 1 pm - 4 pm. If you are interested in helping and getting service hours, please email Dalisa Cooper at marketing@cisnevada.org. (9/15)
HS Girls interested in playing basketball....If you are interested in
trying out for basketball this year, please connect with Coach Karner
either in person or through email (karnerj@flhsemail.org) ASAP. She will
have the information you will need.(9/30)
trying out for basketball this year, please connect with Coach Karner
either in person or through email (karnerj@flhsemail.org) ASAP. She will
have the information you will need.(9/30)
Faith Lutheran High School Student Council is excited to present Homecoming: Down the Rabbit Hole! Homecoming Week will include fun dress up days (stay tuned for details!), a Powderpuff competition, the grade vs grade Lip Sync Competition, a football game, King and Queen Coronation, and of course a Homecoming Dance :)
· Please click here to purchase your tickets for the Homecoming Dance on Saturday, September 30. Tickets do go up incrementally, so don't delay!
*Anyone wanting tickets after 9/26 would need special approval. These tickets will also be more expensive.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to Mrs. Klemm (klemmj@flhsemail.org) or Mrs. Buuck (buuckj@flhsemail.org).
Get excited 
Get your tickets today!
PLEASE NOTE: Photos of ID Badges’s or Crusader Connect contact pages will no longer be accepted for entrance to after school events or Seniors, leaving for lunch. If you do not have an ID badge, please visit IT in the library to have a temporary one made or to have a copy of your existing ID created. Per the CCSD, Middle and High School students may not bring guests to after school events hosted by Faith Lutheran who are not enrolled in Faith Lutheran per district regulation 5135.4. (This is a district-wide policy that we are following.) Additionally, Middle school students attending high school events cannot attend without their parents. (9/29)
Military & First Responders Appreciation Event
The event is Saturday 10/21 at Craig Ranch Regional Park, N. Las Vegas
Looking for Student volunteers (water booth, set up, registration table, drive golf carts & etc) Please contact John Wulf at 702.210.8837.
Grief in Common will begin running on Tuesday, September 12th. This group is open to any student who is working through loss. We meet every Tuesday from 8am-845am. Please contact Mrs. Burns (burnsc@flhsemail.org) if you are interested in joining.
Israel 2024! Students, we will be having an informational meeting for you and your parents on Wednesday, September 20th, and Thursday, September 21st, at 7:00 p.m., in portable 67. You
only have to come to one of the meetings. The deadline for trip registration is November 1st. For more details about this trip go to registernow.ittworld.com (Tour Code: Chapman24) then click on the link in the upper right-hand (Trip Brochure). This will give you tons of information about the trip itinerary, dates, price, allow you to register, and so forth. Also, feel free to contact Dr. Chapman at darius.chapman@flhsemail.org if you have specific questions. (9/21)
The National Art Honor Society will have its next meeting on Monday September 11th during lunch in room 103. Bring your lunch if you plan to attend. High School students may join through the end of September. (9/30)
Tuesdays with Taylor - The Eras Bible Study
Come join Miss Becky for a Taylor Swift themed Bible Study. We will meet in portable 66 every Tuesday morning from 8am-8:30am. Breakfast snacks will be provided! Questions? Email becky.chaplin@faithlasvegas.org (12/31)
Are you interested in traveling internationally with Faith Lutheran over Spring Break or Summer 2024? As the new school year has begun, we are in full swing for trip sign-ups for this year's two international ACIS trips. If you are interested in either or both trips, follow the Registration Links below. Each link will take you to the itinerary, dates, prices, insurance, and much more. Our Spring Break Trip is a Tour of Japan and will be led by Mr. Klenz. Our Summer Trip is to France and Switzerland and will be led by Ms. Gieseke. Students can sign up for one or both trips. As soon as you complete your registration and pay your deposit- your price will be locked in and your place secured. Information meetings for both trips will begin in late October/November. Any questions or concerns you may have can be directed to Mr. Klenz and Ms. Gieseke. Alex Klenz- Spring Break Trip (Tour of Japan)- alex.klenz@flhsemail.org Greta Gieseke- Summer (France + Switzerland)- giesekeg@flhsemail.org
Faith Lutheran is hosting the first Red Cross Blood Drive of the year on Thursday, September 21, 2023.
Drive Details:
Site: Faith Lutheran Middle School & High School
Address: 2015 S Hualapai Way, Las Vegas, NV, 89117
Room Name: Class Room - Leadership Room 502
Date: Thur Sep 21, 2023
Time: 02:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Click here to make an appointment
Site: Faith Lutheran Middle School & High School
Address: 2015 S Hualapai Way, Las Vegas, NV, 89117
Room Name: Class Room - Leadership Room 502
Date: Thur Sep 21, 2023
Time: 02:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Click here to make an appointment
If you need additional information or have questions, please contact Mrs. Grant at grantk@flhsemail.org. (9/22)
HS SPORTS
IMPORTANT INFORMATION/REMINDERS
REGISTERING FOR SPORTS IN AKTIVATE
(Formerly Register My Athlete)
**2023/2024 Aktivate Registration will open on 4/1/23 **
Aktivate: If you are planning on participating in High School Sports, please complete your Aktivate registration for the
2023/2024 school year ASAP. www.aktivate.com
--ALL athletes must be registered for sports in Aktivate.
--To start your registration, please log in and click on start/complete registration for the 2023/2024
school year.
--Aktivate instructions & physical forms can be found on: Crusader Connect Resources Page under MS/HS Sports Resources. Aktivate Instructions/NIAA NEW Physical Forms to be used effective 4/1/23
NEW NIAA PHYSICAL FORMS INFORMATION effective 4/1/23
A new physical required every 12 months.
--The new Pre-Participation form consists of three pages, HEALTH HISTORY FORM, PHYSICAL EXAMINATION FORM & MEDICAL ELIGIBILITY FORM
--Pages 1 and 2, the Health History Form & Physical Examination Form must remain on file with the student’s medical provider. DO NOT upload these forms into Aktivate or turn them into Faith Lutheran.
**Parents are required to upload page 3, Medical Eligibility Form to Aktivate for approval.**
--Physicals EXPIRE 12 months from the date of previous physical.
--If your athlete’s physical expires before or during their season, they will not be allowed to try out for a team. Example: Your child is trying out for a fall sport, your previously completed physical was done on
11/10/22. The physical is expired as of 11/10/23. It will not be valid for the 2023/2024 Fall season since it expires during the Fall season. A new physical must be obtained before the season in order for your athlete to tryout for
their Fall sport.
HS Sport Season Schedule 2023/2024
Fall: Football - 7/30/23 - 11/20/23
Fall: Non-Football Sports - 8/5/23 - 11/20/23
Winter: 11/13/23 - 2/23/24
Spring: 2/19/24 - 5/21/24
TRANSFER STUDENTS
(For 9th (mid-year transfers), new 10TH, 11TH & 12TH grade transfers)
If you are transferring from out of state or from another school you MUST complete your transfer in Aktivate ASAP. DO NOT WAIT. The approval process for transfer students can take weeks or months to get completed & approved. This could affect your athlete participating in their season. If you have any questions, please contact Cindy Sideco – HS Athletic Administrative Assistant. cindy.sideco@flhsemail.org or 702-804-4425
MIDDLE SCHOOL ANNOUNCEMENTS
Butterfly Garden Club: Clay Workshops
Come create clay pieces to add to the garden's totem poles. Please RSVP for this so enough supplies will be available for you to enjoy.
DATES: Wed Sept 27 and Wed October 4th
Where: Room 316
Time: 3:15 to 5:00
Advisors: Mrs. September Wilson & Bridget Laswell; Science Teachers
NOTE: Regular meetings will resume in November (due to Coach Wilson's volleyball season)(9/29)
MS Swim Team: Did you miss the Informational Meeting? <= Click on the link ASAP and look for the deadlines. (9/20)
Mid-Level Future Business Leaders of America will have their first Introductory Meeting with Ice Cream on Tuesday, September 19th at 3:30 p.m. in Room 503. Come join us to learn leadership, teamwork and entrepreneurial skills. We will be competing this year in Reno, Nevada in April 2024. Any questions email cheryl.burns@flhsemail.org. (9/19)
Dear Parent or Student, ORDER BY 12/31/2023
Yearbook Recognition Ads are the perfect way to commemorate achievements and celebrate milestones for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students. To purchase your ad online, follow the instructions listed on the flyer. Jostens is responsible for our
school's yearbook ad sales. Please do not contact or send materials to the school. Please also consider our school's ad content guidelines below during the creation of your ad online. All orders must be placed by 12/31/2023. You may click on this link: Jostens Student Ad. You will be asked to create an account. Be sure to create your ad in the Middle School Yearbook. Yearbook PDA flyer 23-24.pdf
PLEASE NOTE: Photos of ID Badges’s or Crusader Connect contact pages will no longer be accepted for entrance to after school events or Seniors, leaving for lunch. If you do not have an ID badge, please visit IT in the library to have a temporary one made or to have a copy of your existing ID created. Per the CCSD, Middle and High School students may not bring guests to after school events hosted by Faith Lutheran who are not enrolled in Faith Lutheran per district regulation 5135.4. (This is a district-wide policy that we are following.) Additionally, Middle school students attending high school events cannot attend without their parents. (9/29)
Grief in Common will begin running on Tuesday, September 12th. This group is open to any student who is working through loss. We meet every Tuesday from 8am-845am. Please contact Mrs. Burns (burnsc@flhsemail.org) if you are interested in joining.
VEX Robotics club We will have our first meeting for the Middle School VEX Robotics club on Friday, Sept. 15th. I will introduce myself and Mr. Kober (HS Robotics Teacher) as well as address meeting times, expectations, and goals during the meeting.
When: 3:15pm - 3:45pm
Where: Room 310
IT'S COMING!! IT'S COMING! FINALLY IT'S ALMOST HERE!!!
Auditions for the MS play THE GRIMM'S BROTHERS SPECATACULARATHON are coming Sept 19 and 20. Please email Mr Elliott for a copy of the script, audition do’s and don'ts, how to get a spot, character descriptions, sides, etc. (or stop by Portable 58 to chat)
TECH AUDITION FORMS CAN BE FOUND IN THE THEATER HALLWAY THE WEEK OF AUDITIONS -- Tech is for both MS and HS students
Email Ms Amy Cruz-Ortiz with questions. (9/20)
Play Details
Two narrators and several actors attempt to combine all 209 stories ranging from classics like Snow White, Cinderella, and Hansel and Gretel to more bizarre, obscure stories like Faithful Johannes. This is a wild, free-form comedy with lots of madcap fun.
LEGO Club is starting up again and is looking for new members. We meet in room 502 in the AUX Gym every Tuesday from 3:30-4:30pm starting on Tuesday August 29. If you enjoy digging through bins of random LEGO pieces and using your imagination to create whatever you can come up with, this club is for you!(9/30)
7th and 8th Grade Working Lunch
7th and 8th grade working lunch will begin the month of September starting on the 6th and will continue every Monday and Wednesday. This is a time to work on school work or study for a test, etc.
If you would like to attend a working lunch, you must fill out this form the morning of and bring your own lunch. Students will come to room 501 with their lunch and will stay the entire lunch period. Working lunch is limited to 25 students.
Attention all 7th and 8th graders!
Let's go to California over President's Day weekend!
A trip to Southern California is planned for Wednesday, February 14th to Sunday the 18th. The cost is only $1200/student which includes everything but your lunches and spending money. The click below for info. See Ms Beyer or Mrs. Grant for more information. Southern Cal Trip and itinerary There will be a parent meeting for all who are interested on Monday, Sept. 25 at 5:30 p.m. in room 224. If you are interested but cannot attend this meeting, please contact Ms. Beyer or Mrs. Grant at Anna.Beyer@flhsemail.org or grank@flhsemail.org, respectively.
DO YOU WANT TO TRAVEL INTERNATIONALLY WITH FAITH LUTHERAN? Our Summer Trip (May 28-June 5) will be to France and Switzerland( only current 8th grade) with Ms. Gieseke. Follow these links to register early, and lock in the lowest possible price. If you have questions about the trip, please giesekeg@flhsemail.org. We look forward to traveling with you next year!
Link for France/Switzerland (itinerary, dates, prices, registration)
Faith Lutheran is hosting the first Red Cross Blood Drive of the year on Thursday, September 21, 2023.
Drive Details:
Site: Faith Lutheran Middle School & High School
Address: 2015 S Hualapai Way, Las Vegas, NV, 89117
Room Name: Class Room - Leadership Room 502
Date: Thur Sep 21, 2023
Time: 02:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Click here to make an appointment
Site: Faith Lutheran Middle School & High School
Address: 2015 S Hualapai Way, Las Vegas, NV, 89117
Room Name: Class Room - Leadership Room 502
Date: Thur Sep 21, 2023
Time: 02:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Click here to make an appointment
If you need additional information or have questions, please contact Mrs. Grant at grantk@flhsemail.org. (9/22)
DEVOTIONS
September 15, 2023
Today’s Reading: 2 Corinthians 6:1-18
Daily Lectionary: 1 Kings 11:1-26, 2 Corinthians 6:1-18
Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation (2 Corinthians 6:2)
In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. “Do not receive the grace of God in vain,” which means to receive God’s grace to no purpose, for emptiness, or as if it were worthless. Paul’s exhortation to the Corinthians is based on this fact: whatever their problems, whatever their sins, whatever their conflicts, they have received the grace of God. God has not kept it from them. Paul is citing a promise given to the people of Israel through the prophet Isaiah, that God would restore them after their exile. He would send a servant as a light for both Israel and the nations (Gentiles) (Isaiah 49:6, 8).
To receive God’s grace in vain would be to plaster it as an excuse over our sin and rejection of God’s will. This is what Solomon did in 1 Kings 11, when he made room for the idols of the nations, which came into Israel through his many wives and concubines. And Paul touches on the same point in 2 Corinthians 6:14-18, when he emphasizes that every baptized Christian has been set aside, taken out of the kingdom of this world’s darkness, and put into Christ’s kingdom of light.
The actions of the Corinthians often show that they are more closely tied to the world than to Christ. Of course, we are no different. We, too, are often conformed to the ways of the world, rather than transformed by the renewal of our minds in Christ.
This is where Luther’s morning and evening prayers can be so helpful for the daily living of our life in Christ: in the morning, remind yourself with the sign of Christ’s holy cross that you are baptized, no matter what happens today; thankful that the Lord has kept us this past night, we pray that He would keep us today from all sin and evil. Then, when we come to the end of the day, we give thanks that He has brought us through the day; we ask Christ’s forgiveness for what we have done wrong, and we make the sign of Christ’s cross to remind ourselves that no matter what happened today, we belong to Jesus.
Every single day is the favorable time when God calls us back to our baptism; every day is the day of salvation. Today is the day that God hears you cry out for His mercy. Today He helps you with His grace. Today He makes His dwelling with you, so that you are the temple of the living God! Today; and tomorrow when it is called today, and every day after that, until we see the salvation that is ours in Christ. In the Name + of Jesus. Amen.
Today Your mercy calls us To wash away our sin./However great our trespass, Whatever we have been, However long from mercy Our hearts have turned away, Your precious blood can was us/And make us clean today” (LSB 915:1).
– Pastor Timothy Winterstein is pastor at Faith Lutheran Church, East Wenatchee, Washington.
