Congratulations to our first 2 students, Liam and Addi, who completed the FCS 100 Hours Outside challenge! Way to go! Each student received a certificate, a sticker badge, and an entry into a grand prize drawing at the end of the school year.
FCS students, keep logging your hours outside! The challenge lasts through the end of the school year!
Elementary Chapel: today our 5th graders led the elementary students in a chapel about Worship. They planned some songs in English and Spanish, and led us in some motions. They read Psalm 150 to us and had pictures to go along with a song about worship. We saw a video about people who worshipped in different ways in the Bible, and then we were encouraged to worship in different ways throughout our life. The 5th graders did a wonderful job in being Christian worship leaders!
This month’s Family Group Friday gave us a chance to share about friendship ideas with Jesus. We had filled in a booklet page about a personal relationship with Jesus in our classes, and then we shared these with our family groups. We talked in our group circles about the distractions to keep us from a friendship with Jesus, and went over our theme verse. We are challenging each other to learn 5 theme verses this last half of our school year. For February, we are learning all of Psalm 46:10 ““Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” That extended verse launches our February theme of Praise and worship.
Winter SEED Day 2 (Students Equipped to be Excited Disciples): When we have a personal relationship with God, we need to be connected to Him, and bear fruit. We welcomed Chris again in our message today about what a personal relationship with God looks like. We strive to abide in Christ and stay close in the Word and in prayer. We were also able to worship with some of our moms this morning. We sang about the goodness of God. What a great morning spending time with God!
Winter SEED Day 1 (Students Equipped to be Excited Disciples): We welcomed Chris Bradshaw from Harvest Fremont to give us a message of the GREAT news of the gospel. We were urged to know the story of what God has done for us through Jesus, and how to have a personal relationship with Jesus. We need to repent and believe to follow Jesus! We were also able to worship with Caleb Stanton from Harvest and give praise to God. What a joy to hear the students sing “There's joy in the house of the Lord today, and we won't be quiet. We shout out Your praise!” and hear the students shout in song!
We have one more special SEED chapel on Friday morning, Jan. 26 at 8:15 in our gym. Parents and grandparents are welcome to join us! And the students are encouraged to wear their theme shirts!
Elementary Chapel Friday: Jesus is our Friend! The third grade hosted our chapel today, and talked about our personal relationship with Jesus – when we believe in him, he is there to be our friend! They gave a skit about Mary and Martha, and also talked about things that distract us from our friendship with Jesus. They had a video about how we can draw closer to Jesus, and taught us a new song about “I am a friend of God.”
Due to the weather, Fremont Christian will be closed Wednesday January 10.
All-School Chapel Friday: Happy New Year! This week we launched the second half of our “See God Move” theme. When we “Be still, and know that He is God,” that should stir a thankful reaction in us – a transformed life in God’s saving power. We need to have a personal friendship with God and spend time with Him – to grow in Him and see how He is working. So this month we will talk about what it means to have a friendship with God, invite students into that friendship, and have a learning goal - that I can recognize distractions in my life and choose to focus on the truth of God. Our theme verse this month is from Jeremiah 29:13: "You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart" / Jeremías 29:13 “Me buscarán y me encontrarán cuando me busquen de todo corazón.”
We also welcomed Pastor Taylor who shared about staying focused on God and to see God will ALL your heart. We awarded many of our students verse certificates for learning the theme verses for the first half of the year.
See God Move!
The 2023 Christmas Event: Our Christmas chapel was presented by us! The classroom teachers made videos that had students doing different portions of the Christmas story, favorite things about Christmas, and the true meaning of Christmas. Today we celebrated Jesus’ birth and watched the videos all put together. You’ll have to ask our students about reported sightings of shepherds that looked vaguely like some of our teachers! You will see some of the videos over the next few days on our facebook page. Merry Christmas! Feliz Navidad! Jesus is the reason for the season!
Middle School Christmas Chapel: Our Middle School had chapel together and sang some Christmas songs, and then formed together mixed aged circles. In their groups they talked about the perspectives from some of the other people of the Christmas story: the innkeeper, the shepherds, and the wisemen. What’s our perspective of the Christmas story?
Elementary Chapel: Our first grade shepherds came to tell us the story of what happened the night Jesus was born! This month our theme is “God is Shepherd”, and how He knows all of us – his sheep! God cares for us, and sent Jesus to be born to save us. Thanks to our little shepherds for learning their lines so well and leading us in singing.
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
