Family Group Friday: Our 8th and 7th grade leaders helped us talk about Jesus as the Good Shepherd and we as his sheep. We went over our verse together from Ps. 23:1, and talked about how the Shepherd takes care of us from Psalm 23. Then we played some shepherd/sheep games, and had some extra fun together. We ended by singing and talking about the words from the song “Lead On, Good Shepherd,” sung by Patrick Mayberry, - ” Step by step, day by day / Lead me on, Lord I pray. Road gets dark, walk by faith / Lead on, Good Shepherd.” (And yes, if you wonder by the pictures – it was pajama day).
Family Group Thanksgiving: FCS celebrated Thanksgiving family group style today. We are so grateful for the wonderful food, staff, facilities, students, and good times together! We thank God that we can take time to give him the glory in all things!
God is Provider Chapel: Today we talked about how God provides for our needs. Matthew 6:33 tells us “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” And because our Almighty, powerful, strong, protector, faithful God Provider, stronger than a lion, is there for us, we can be thankful! Many classes shared things they were thankful for, and our Middle School Dance team danced to “Perfectly Loved” by Rachel Lampa. We can also look forward to the end times, when the Lion of Judah, who is the lamb that was slain, is victorious. That’s a lot to be thankful for!
Buddy Friday: lots of fun activities going on with our buddies! Some read Christmas stories and started our Christmas gift for our parents. Some were practicing our habits of living using play-doh. Others were playing games with each other. It is great to see these relationships blossom and kids showing love and grace to one another.
The Middle School Adventure Club hiked a portion of the Dragon Trail for our October Adventure. We experienced beautiful views and fall colors on this scenic hike!
Family Group Friday: God is Grace! Our 8th and 7th graders led our family groups this time, using The Gospel of Grace in 5 Colors story and booklet. It was exciting to hear students talk about grace - about the darkness of sin and that Jesus died for us! Ask your child what the colors black, red, white, gold, and green stand for from the booklet.
SEED Days: October 12 and 13. Students Equipped to be Excited Disciples. At Friday’s SEED chapel Caleb and Kindra Stanton told us about how God moved in their lives to bring them to Fremont and use their talents for God’s glory here. They also lead us in worship together. We are hearing how things don’t always go according to our plans, but God’s plans are good, and he can work out good things in our lives when we follow him.
SEED Days: October 12 and 13. Students Equipped to be Excited Disciples. Thursday’s SEED chapel was an object lesson from Kyle Mullin about clean water and then how our lives need to be cleaned by God’s forgiveness. We were also able to worship together led by some of our moms: Jenna Louis, Lauren Sherman, and Megan Gardenour. It is great to praise our God, learn from his word, and see God move during our worship time together.
Harvest Parade 2023
FCS is inviting pastors to join us for chapel and a tour on Friday, October 6. Invite your pastors - we would love to meet them and have the kids meet them too! We appreciate our pastors!
Buddy Joy 2: it was great to spend time with our buddies this morning, and to hear the joyful sounds in our building and outside on our grounds of kids having a great time with each other. A great way to show God's love!
Buddy Joy 1: it was great to spend time with our buddies this morning, and to hear the joyful sounds in our building and outside on our grounds of kids having a great time with each other. A great way to show God's love!
God Is Love: Family Group Day. We met our mixed grades family groups today, where we will spend time growing in relationships and doing activities together. It warmed my heart to walk around and hear the groups talk about God’s love, and what God does for us, and how we don’t have to be afraid because God loves us, we are made in his image, he is strong and powerful, and more! The students drew pictures of how we can spread God’s love, and we put them on a heart to remind us of God’s love.
God is Love! That was our theme of September’s chapel today. We are learning some of the attributes of God, and overall, we are starting how God is love. So much love! We sang our theme song “This is our God,” which talks about how he loves us. We also met our school buddies today, and we spread some of God’s love in getting to know them a little for the first time.
Our verse for September is I John 4:16 “And so we know the love that God has for us, and we trust that love. God is love.” Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God lives in Him.” Will you join us in memorizing it this month?
1st Day Chapel: the school met together today in our first All School Chapel for this school year. We had a chance to praise God together, hear about our new theme, and meet our new teachers and students. We also had our 8th grade pledge to help out and be models for the Kindergartners. We are thankful for the parents and community members who gathered to pray for us. May this be a great year with God – to see God Move!
The FCS Staff gathered on the playground after the Open House tonight for a prayer circle. We are excited for this year, and so glad we can talk to God about this year, our school, our classrooms, our students, our families, and each other. As we seek to See God Move and “Be Still and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10a), we join in doing God’s work: to Glorify Him in educating and nurturing our students to impact the world for Christ.
Last All School Chapel – praising God for another year together! For God’s leading and faithfulness in nurturing and educating students! For Evidence of God all around us – through the good and the hard times. For students and families and teachers and staff who seek to follow God in daily Christian education – teaching for transformation! Today we prayed over our students and especially our 8th graders – may we continue to walk with God and show the Evidence of the Spirit!
Family Group Field Day: was Friday, May 26. It was a beautiful morning for outdoor activities. The Family Groups went around to different stations, and did many different activities together. The seventh graders planned and led each station. There were obstacle courses, mummy wrap, spoon races, hungry hippo, water relay, human picture games, and more! They finished the morning with having lunch together. Our thanks to Miss Bouma for organizing all of this. Overall, it was another great year of making memories together.
Early Elementary Program: Our Preschoolers, Young 5s, and Kindergarteners also presented an awesome ocean theme program on Monday, May 22. They sang songs like “Deep and Wide” and “Oceans,” did some poems and verses, and made movement to music with scarves and hand motions. Their energy and excitement was contagious! Thanks to Mrs. Arendsen, our music teacher, Mrs. Van Wyk, our preschool teacher, and the other classroom teachers for their help in presenting a great program!
Under God’s Sea in 3D: Our 1st – 4th grade Spring program last night was a success! Mrs. Arendsen led the kids through a musical about looking for God in our lives. We should be daily diving deeper into God’s Word and God’s World. Different 3rd and 4th graders had lead parts, including a song and acting out the Biblical story of Jonah. The students did a great job singing, and reminded us to realize the depths of God’s love for us!
