Announcements

1. A Special Christmas Chapel will take place on Wednesday, December 19 at 9:15 AM. Remember to invite friends, family, and grandparents.

2. Students will be required to purchase materials for the interim course. These materials will be passed out exam week and payment of $10 will be accepted then.

3. Classes resume on January 7, 2002.

4. Mancino’s Monday! Bring money if you’d like to have Mancino’s for lunch.

Basketball Season

By Jennifer Kooy

     I ran with full force as I dribbled down the court and went for a lay-up. I made the basket! Mrs. Van Uffelen was screaming for joy! We were all jumping up and down! We won the game!

     This was a replay from our basketball game at Luther East. Although we won the game, Meghan Looyenga didn’t walk away.  Near the end of the game, she took a hard fall and hurt her foot. Thanks to Mr. Kooy and Mr. Medema, Meghan made it safely to her van. As it turned out, she had quite a bit of damage, but is now back on her feet.

     During the basketball season, we also played Illinois Lutheran, South Haven, and De Motte.  Even though we didn’t win those games, we had fun and we worked hard up until the last buzzer.  Bonnie Boer proved this by scoring the last point of the season just as the buzzer was going off! The crowd was literally going wild!

     We all had great fun. We can’t wait for next year!  On behalf of the team, I would like to thank everyone who supported us at the games and the mothers who took the time to bring all of us noisy girls to the games. Thank you!

 

Jump Rope

By Katie Van Baren

          In Physical Education we are practicing jump rope.  It is a very fun but challenging exercise. Right now we do 30 seconds of jump rope, counting our jumps, then we check our pulse. We do that three times in a row, then we record the numbers.  I think all of us have different goals in mind.  This training also helps us get our cardiovascular system in shape.

     We also try to do different techniques of jump rope like Double Dutch, and some of the girls like to do rhymes that they jump to, and jump together with one big rope.  I think my favorite technique is the one Emily and I have mastered: two people jump rope and then switch at one end of each jump rope so both are holding one end of each jump rope, and then they jump together. You have to make sure you go the same speed or you will get caught in your rope, and that is not very pleasurable. Jump rope is a very demanding exercise, but also can be very fun.

 

Upbeat

By Meghan Looyenga

     The attitudes of the students have been pretty positive during the first semester of school.  We are encouraged to know that everything is going pretty smoothly. We weren’t expecting everything to go so well, but God has obviously blessed us.

     Christmas will be a nice break to assess all that we have learned and prepare ourselves for the unique three-week session of interim.  Hopefully our attitudes won’t change, and the second semester will go by without any hitches.

Enlightenment

By Michelle Zandstra

In Western Civilization we just got finished learning about the Age of Reason, otherwise known as the Enlightenment.  The Enlightenment grew out of the Scientific Revolution.  Thinkers at this time thought that nothing was beyond the reach of their mind.  The thinkers had these three main beliefs: 1) Knowledge only comes from observing nature and personal experience. 2) Truth comes only by observing nature. 3) God created the world but left it to govern itself.

     As Reformed believers we know for a fact that what they thought was wrong.  For example, I Corinthians 15:34 states that God gave His children knowledge. I Corinthians 8:1 tells us that the wicked say that they have knowledge and puff themselves up over God.

     To go against the beliefs of the Enlightenment, you can look up John 14:17, which states that the only way to know God’s truth is if the Holy Spirit is working in our hearts and the Holy Spirit only works in the hearts of God’s children.  Only through the Holy Spirit can the elect truly see the truth as it is revealed in nature and in His word (Romans 1).

     To fight against deism, we notice throughout the Old and New Testaments that God is ruling and governing over everything. Even though God is not physically ruling over the earth, he has ordained kings, presidents, rulers, etc…to carry out His plans.