Jeremy May, Pastor Sunday Services: 8:30, 11:00 Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Church: 580-762-1111 www.flcspc.com
David Birnbaum, Principal School: 580-762-9950 website: flcspc.com On-line pay: http://flspc.org/resources.html E-mail: lutheransecretary@yahoo.com Child Care: 580-762-1124 FastDirect: fastdir.com/flcspc
Sola Gratia, Sola Fide,
Sola Scriptura
January 30, 2019
CARDINAL CHATTER 2/23
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FLC&S New Member Class begins, 9:45 a.m. FLS @ Pawhuska Chess Club Moves to FIRST & THIRD WEDNESDAY’S, ECE BASEMENT FLC&S Valentine Salad Luncheon, 11-1; Tickets are $8 for adults and $3 for pre-school. Tickets available in the offices.
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The Cross & the Crescent, 9-4, FLC Fellowship Hall (lunch provided) Last day to bring BoxTops for class contest FLS Auction (in conjunction with reunion) FLS Alumni Reunion; Watch for more details. Preparation meeting to be held TODAY!, January 16 from 2:00-3:00
2-PAYMENT TUITION REMINDER: If you opted to pay your tuition for the year in two payments, the second half payment is due on or before January 31 in order to get the discount. If you want to switch to a monthly plan for the second semester, please contact the office and let us know. CHESS CLUB CHANGES! Effective next week, February 6, Chess Club will be moved to the FIRST AND THIRD WEDNESDAY of each month, from 4 to 5 p.m. in the basement of the Early Childhood Building. We invite you to come and bring a friend! The club is open to all students in Ponca City, grades 1st through 12th. All levels of experience are welcome! The club is in need of additional adults who can play to pair up with children in attendance. BECOME A FLC&S MEMBER!: First Lutheran Church and School will host a new member information class beginning on Sunday, February 3, during the Sunday School hour (9:45 t0 10:45 a.m.) We will discuss the basic doctrine of the Christian faith and specific practices of First Lutheran. Please join us. If you have any questions, call Janet Goll for more information. BAND: Effective Monday, January 28, Band class will begin meeting at First Lutheran School on Monday’s and Tuesday’s from 4:15 – 5:15. On Wednesday’s and Thursday’s it will continue meeting at St. Mary’s. Please contact the school office if you have questions, or if you would like to sign your 5th grade or older student up for band! BOXTOPS CONTEST: Save those BOXTOPS! The class who submits the most will win a pizza party; just bring your boxtops into your homeroom teacher. You have until March 15 to help your class win. Good Luck! Attached to this Chatter is a list of current products with Box Tops! The product list can be found here: www.boxtops4education.com/earn/participating-products PASTOR NORDEEN BENNAI: will be presenting an informative workshop on "THE CROSS AND THE CRESCENT". This will be a study of the differences between Christianity and Islam, and how we can reach out, IN LOVE, to the other children of Abraham by sharing the Gospel of Christ with them. This Workshop will be held on SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2019, from 9 am-4 pm in the FELLOWSHIP HALL. Lunch will be served and will even feature some Moroccan food! You are encouraged to BRING A FRIEND. Please MARK YOUR CALENDAR and PLAN TO JOIN US for this special time of LEARNING, FOOD, and FELLOWSHIP. TAX STATEMENT: If you would like a printout of your payments to First Lutheran during 2018 for tax purposes, you can print them off yourself by logging into your FastDirect account, click on “Finance” on the top, then click on “tax report” on the left. Now click on the button that says “2007”, change it to the calendar year that you need, -1-
and then click “tax year printout”. It will bring up a printable page complete with our tax i.d. number. (This report includes school-related expenses only; summer daycare tax statements must be requested from Ms. Heidi in Daycare.). If you have problems, you can call the office and we can print statements for you as well. Not all payments to FLS are tax deductible, and you should contact a tax advisor to find out what can be written off, and what cannot. NEXT GENERATION COORDINATOR: First Lutheran Church will soon hire a Next Generation Coordinator. It is a part-time, 25 hours per week, position. The NexGen Coordinator will work with an activist advisory board to maintain and create new ministry among Jr. Hi. and High School Youth (FLY) and among millennials. If you are interested in this job, please contact the school office (580-762-9950) or come by to pick up an application. Our board would love to interview and talk over your ideas and ours. Requirements: Should be a member of First Lutheran or would consider membership. Be versed in Lutheran teaching and adhere to our confessions and practices. Would be willing to attend conferences and workshops for continued education. Need good rapport with next generation. ADDITIONAL SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITY: THANKS to a Ponca Business that wanted a large tax break, we received a donation through the Oklahoma Opportunity Scholarship program (www.osfkids.org) and we can share it with our school families. Participating donors and sponsors are eligible for state tax income credits and charitable contribution deductions when taxpayers itemize their deductions. Under Oklahoma’s program, a tax credit of 50 percent is offered for donations to Scholarship Granting Organizations (SGOs) such as OSF, and a 75 percent tax credit for equal pledge amounts for two consecutive years. Credits are capped at $100,000 for qualified business entities, $2,000 for taxpayers filing a joint tax return and $1,000 for individual tax filers. Donations to OSF can be earmarked for First Lutheran, keeping dollars local. Tuition Financial Assistance - Do you fall under these Adjusted Gross Income? 2018-2019 INCOME ELIGIBILITY GUIDELINES Family size 2 $91,353; Family size 3 $115,329; Family size 4 $139,305 (For each additional family member, add $23,976) Then complete the half page application from our school office and return it with the first two pages of your federal income tax return. Upon approval the credit will be applied to upcoming tuition payments. PRINCIPAL – Mr. Birnbaum: Humor: What did the big furry hat say to the warm woolly scarf? A: "You hang around while I go on ahead." Wow. January is already ending and February is a short month. Watch for re-enrollment papers next Wednesday before we open it up to the public on March 1st. Hope to see you at Freddy's this Wednesday night. PRE-SCHOOL – Mrs. Colvin: I hope you are all having a great week! We are learning all about penguins and the letter S! PRE-KINDERGARTEN – Mrs. Kelly: Happy 101st day of school! We had a great day celebrating our 100th day of school yesterday! Thank you for sending trail mix items and cans for the food pantry! We collected over 100 food items! We are over $80.00 in chapel offering for New Life Trails! Mrs. Spears is planning to bring some animals to visit us in the next few weeks! Field Trip permission slips and money are due back to me on Friday. Show and Tell is on Friday. Our Valentine party will be on Thursday, February 14th. Look for the note in folders today for more information. We will be out of school on February 15th and 18th. Our Bible Words this week are, God says, "Be Still and know that I am God." Psalm 46:10 We are learning about Peru and the missionaries serving there. We are finishing with the letter cluster L, K, and V. Have a Blessed Week! PRE-KINDERGARTEN – Mrs. Heitman: Our chapel offering this quarter is going to help the New Life Trails Ministry. This ministry uses animal therapy for anyone from young children to veterans. It's a great little ministry right here in Ponca! They're working to add restrooms for the public at their current facility, and we would like to help them reach their goal! We're still focusing on letters L, K, & U. Continue working at home with your child to enhance their learning of letters and letter sounds! Our class will be going to see Stephen Fite, a children's musician, in concert at the -2-
Poncan Theater on March 7th. Permission slips were sent home last week. Please return those by this Friday, February 1st. Our Bible words this week are "[Jesus said] I am the light of the world" John 9:5. We continue learning how to let our light shine for Him! KINDERGARTEN – Mrs. Miller: Yesterday was the 100th day of school! We had a special snack and we counted a bunch of things to 100! This Friday will be show and tell. We will have a special show and tell. Please have your child count out 100 small items of something small, then put them in a baggie (with your child's name on it) and send it to school on Friday for show and tell. It can be anything like bits of cereal, marshmallows, toothpicks, m & m's, ribbons, screws, beads, pennies, buttons, etc. Today for fun we watched Disney's 101 Dalmatians, the movie. You can ask your child about it! Have a sensational week! FIRST GRADE – Mrs. Birnbaum: We had fun celebrating our 100th day of school yesterday! Thank you for the canned food for our Church Pantry. We will let you know how many we counted! Memory verse for Friday is 1 Timothy 1:15 - Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Book orders are due to me or online tomorrow (Jan. 31). Also, January Reading Logs are due by Friday for the Pizza Hut Certificate. February Reading Logs will be sent home tomorrow. We have a few birthdays coming up next week. Happy birthday to Savannah on the 4th and to Elizabeth on the 5th! SECOND GRADE – Mrs. Powell: We're taking a video tour of Peru this week. Ask your child what we've learned. We're getting ready to Jump for Heart, February 13. Start looking for sponsors for your child's efforts. Extra packets are available in the office. This week each second grader may choose 7 spelling words to study. Let me know if you have questions. Fourth Commandment and meaning are due on Thursday. Practice at home. Our Valentine's party will be at 2:30 on the 14th. You're invited! I know that Mrs. Muchmore will keep you posted about things we need for our party. Our thoughts and prayers are with Mrs. Erickson as her mother passed away on Saturday. Blessings! THIRD GRADE – Mrs. Steichen: This week we are traveling around Peru. So far we have learned about llamas, Machu Picchu, the jungles, and met some new friends along the way. We can't wait to see where the rest of the week takes us. This week: Memory - Apostles Creed, Article One, due by Friday. Spelling Test over words for The Man Who Invented the Basketball; test on Friday. Book Reports: Information came on Monday about our next project. Students need to have their books chosen by Friday. Please let me know if you have any questions. Valentine's Day: We will be making bags in class for everyone to put their Valentine's in. If you send treats or cards, please make sure everyone gets one. We will have a part on Thursday, February 14th at 2:30 p.m. Heart Challenge: Please join us on Wednesday, February 13th for our heart challenge. It will be at 8:30 a.m. Please have donation envelopes turned in by that morning. We are challenging everyone to get at least $20 in donations. If you need an extra envelope stop by the office. Have a wonderful week!! FOURTH GRADE – Mrs. Sibley: Stay warm in this cold weather, a winter coat is a must these days! We are really going into new material that requires time to think, process, and respond to more complex questions. It is really necessary to be organized, study and practice for what being asked of us. I am seeing amazing progress to make AR Goals early! Many have found that without nightly reading at home, it can be difficult to make our AR goal. Continue practicing the multiplication table; we are now doing long division & exponents that require exceptional math fluency. Help the kids to be patient with these specific and detailed processes. FIFTH GRADE – Mrs. Schatte: After a short week last week due to Monday off and a field trip Friday, this week promises to be full. We have a regular reading and spelling unit. We took three tests last week so the only tests are Friday and they are reading and spelling. I so enjoyed our field trip on Friday! Exploration Place was amazing, and God gifted us with the beautiful snow. And ice skating was fun! The kids were well-behaved, and I enjoyed visiting with parents. Thanks again, parents, for making this trip possible. Blessings!
MIDDLE SCHOOL Wednesday’s, 3:30 – 4:30, MathCounts & Friday’s during study hall Wednesday’s, 5:30 – 7:00, Youth night in the gym! (details below) 2/12 8th Grade families only—Po-Hi Course Fair, 4-7:00 p.m., Po-Hi Commons 2/25 8th Grade families – Private Assembly for First Lutheran, St. Mary’s, & PCCA, 6:00 p.m., Po-Hi Assembly Center VARSITY ATHLETES: As our basketball/cheer season comes to an end, we'd like to take an opportunity to worship with one another! Winter Jam 2019 is coming to Wichita on February 8th, and we'd love to join together with our fellow middle school VARSITY athletes in this night of worship. We will leave right after school on the 8th, stop for -3-
dinner in Wichita, and head to the concert. The cost for this evening will be $25 per athlete (dinner and concert included). If you're interested in attending, cheerleaders can contact Jennifer Heitman and basketball players can contact Amanda Cain. 8th Grade students & parents:
Two dates for 8th grade parents for two different reasons at Ponca High Schools. 1. Tues, Feb 12 is the Po-Hi Course Fair in the Upper Commons. This event will be held from 4-7. Students and their parents/guardians are encouraged to attend to obtain information about course offerings at the high school. On this evening, the counselors will be hosting 2 informational sessions in the Howell Auditorium. The first session is at 5:00. The second session is at 6:00. We will be presenting basic information about upcoming enrollment, graduation requirements, etc. 2. Monday, Feb 25, 6:00 pm in the Po-Hi Assembly Center will be a private assembly for First Lutheran, St. Mary's, & PCCA families to ask questions and get additional help & information. Mark Your Calendars.
"FLY" NIGHT TONIGHT! in the gym! Middle school through high school students are welcome to join us for some fun and fellowship! We will meet each Wednesday evening from 5:30-7 in the FLS gym. Parents are invited to join our 5:30 Bible study during this time. Hope to see you all there, and bring a friend or two!! Mrs. Harbeson: Hello, Everyone! I hope you are all doing well! We have a lot of activities going on at First Lutheran! Monday night was 8th grade night for our basketball players and cheerleader. Thank you Raecyn Fisher, Bryant Rice, Titus Vickery, Jonathan Vickery, and Caroline Gates for your hard work and dedication to our school. We send you many blessings! We also have a few returning and new student council members for the second semester. Our 6th grade representatives are Reed Jackson, Brynn Vincent, and Rachel Lawson. 7th grade reps are Kaylie Thomas, Kylie Flowers, and Gia Patel. 8th grade stuco representatives are Jonathan Vickery and Bryant Rice. I look forward to working with our group this semester as we plan some fun events to finish up the school year. Finally, if you can believe it, midquarter is a week from today! That's right! Next Wednesday will mark the half-way mark of the 3rd quarter. I encourage everyone to fight the winter slumps and work hard to achieve your academic goals! That's all for now, please keep Ms. Connie in your prayers as her mother passed away last weekend. We love you, Connie, and may God give you peace and comfort. Mrs. Hanson: This Thursday all students have the opportunity to serve the community by serving dinner at the Friendship Feast at 1st Christian Church. If your student is willing/able to help, please send a note to school addressed to me letting me know. The more volunteers the better. Thanks in advance! Continuing on in content, each class is moving smoothly through and will soon be ready to test, probably next week. Mousetrap cars need to be 50% completed by Thursday. 50%, to me, means the car is finished and functions, but is not complete because it is not as perfect as it could be and is being adjusted, tweeked, to make it the fastest, or go the longest, or boomerang more accurately. Ms. Pacey: I am proud of all of our 8th grade athletes! 7th grade PreAlgebra has a test this Friday. They have a packet to review everything we have been working on this chapter. Course 2 (6th and 7th grade) took their test yesterday, and they can make corrections until Friday. Wish our MathCounts team good luck! Mr. Covert: We’re almost done with January! I hope that everyone is going well and staying healthy with all the bugs going around right now. Classes are going to continue where we left off. 8th grade is wrapping up the Civil War this week, and then we’ll start working on the US expanding to the west. As for 7th grade, we’re going to be starting in on South America with a chapter on Brazil. In 6th grade, this week is the end of our unit on Rome, and we’ll start talking about the spread of Christianity in the days of the early church on through the Middle Ages. -4-
7th grade parents, our DC fundraiser is this weekend, Thursday-Sunday. A FastDirect message was sent with a link to the sign up sheet on Monday evening. The money earned will be split among the families who work the tournament, so if you need to fundraise for our trip, sign up! I pray that God continues to bless our school family as we move through this school year and into the month of February. Blessings on your week!
First Lutheran Church & School—Growing up into Jesus, Reaching out with Jesus, Walking together in Jesus
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