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| Heritage Christian High School | Friday, January 18 , 2002 |
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Interim’s First Week By Grace De Jong Vacation
ended and school began again, but something was different.
Mr. Medema led devotions and told us that our teacher was
late. Our teacher?! Ten minutes later a tall man came into our
room. He apologized for
being late (which he told us he has NEVER done in all his years
in the seminary), and introduced himself as Professor Hanko. The morning flew past as we discussed the
topic of prayer and how it affects our daily lives. Professor Hanko is a very gifted man with a natural ability for
speaking. Every day, he
made us hold our own private devotions, and we would have to tell
the class about the content of our prayers. During the first couple of days it was a
bit hard to adjust – seeing he’s a professor at the seminary and
we’re high schoolers! Besides
that, Professor Hanko continually pressed us with the question,
“Why?” until we gave him our thoughts or gave up in exasperation!
It was a great learning experience that will come to show
itself a great blessing as we continue our journey through life. We were taught to observe how things in
creation, such as the sunset and birds, glorify God. We were taught about Christ’s chastisement of His people. We also
learned that prayer cannot change God’s mind.
We learned how to hold our own daily devotions and that sometimes
we have to wrestle with God in prayer and come humbly and boldly
before His throne to demand the blessings that He promised to give
us. The Interim with Professor Hanko was a great
blessing and learning experience in the area of prayer. This is something we can carry with us for
the rest of our lives, and that we must never take for granted. Announcements 1. Parents, there has been some confusion about the schedule for
Heritage Christian on Monday, January 21, because the grade school
is recessed for Records Day on that date. Our published calendar
does not include this Records Day. Heritage students are expected
to be at school that day. Since the students are receiving a semester’s
credit for the work of the Interim period, any hours missed because
of an unexcused absense will have a significant impact upon the
grade received. Thank you for your cooperation. 2. Report
Cards will be mailed home the last week of January. 3. Second
semester classes begin on Monday, January 28. 4. At their
completion of Interim course work in history of Western music,
the students of Heritage Christian High School plan to present,
D.V., a program of choral music from various periods in music
history along with commentary upon it. You are invited to their
presentation on Friday, January 25, at 7:45 p.m. at the South
Holland PRC. 5. Future
days off: Febraury 18 Presidents’ Day March 25 – April 1 Spring Break May 27
Memorial Day 6. Mr. Medema
expects to remain in the hospital for the next 2-3 days for monitoring
of blood levels and possible complications. Visitors are not advised.
Cards are welcome at Room 483, South Suburban Hospital. Hot
Lunch Schedule Jan. 24 (Interim) Hot Dogs / Mom’s Choice Jan. 31 Subway / Nachos & Cheese Feb. 7 Tacos / Mom’s Choice Feb. 14 Burgers/Brats / Mom’s Choice
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Looking Back
By Alyssa
Zandstra
As many
of us look back on the past months here at Heritage Christian High
School, we reflect on the times gone by.
We see all of the hardships that we have come through and
how the Lord has strengthened us in our love and trust for Him. The first
semester of this school year has gone very well. With many donations and greatly appreciated
support, we have become what some wouldn’t ever have dreamed. As the plans of the high school are made for
it to grow and expand, I think that this could all happen through
the hand of our great Creator. Without God, none of this could have happened. We are truly blessed. Interim 2002 By Meghan Looyenga For
the first year of our high school “career” and the first year of
the existence of Heritage Christian High, we have been privileged
to spend the first three weeks of this new year in a study of different
topics relating to our Christian faith.
The classes that we are taking consist of Practical Theology,
Music History, and Choir. We
spend about three and a half hours in the morning, with breaks in
between each 50-minute period, studying various topics that Professor
Hanko and our area ministers have prepared for us to learn and understand. For our first week, Professor Hanko taught
us the fundamentals of prayer and what the Lord requires of us in
prayer. We were assigned passages to read for personal devotions,
and required to write down what our prayers included for morning
and evening devotions. Rev.
Allen Brummel, Rev. Nathan Brummel, Rev. Carl Haak, and Rev. Ron
Hanko will be leading our lessons and discussions on other topics
of our Christian life for the remainder of the Interim course. After
Practical Theology, we have been learning all about the history
of music. Mrs. Looyenga
has been teaching us the gradual shaping of the music of our Western
culture. We have also been required to choose a famous
composer such as Bach or Tchaikovsky and research his life and a
renowned piece of work he composed to write an essay for our final
Interim grade in Music History. Our
Interim classes will conclude with a program prepared by none other
than the students of Heritage Christian High, our choir directors,
Mr. Don Terpstra and Mrs. Lynn Lubbers, and our pianist, Mrs. Looyenga. (The scope of the program will consist of sounds
that make up what music gradually came to be.) Songs of the church, some classics, and a few enjoyable pieces will
be accompanied by explanations of each. Choir By
Bonnie Boer
“Ah-choo!” Yes,
an “ah-choo” is in our choir class. The song in which it’s found is “Cold and Fugue Season.”
Choir
is wonderful. Each day we practice new music or perfect our
old music. We learn definitions
of the types of music we sing, for example, motets, fugues, canons,
Gregorian chants, etc… We
have a couple of high range songs that give the sopranos a challenge,
but every one of the songs sounds beautiful! We have
spent a lot of time getting the hang of the melody and counting
right, but it is worth it! Come
join us on January 25 to hear our presentation!
I promise you’ll enjoy it immensely! Prayer, Missions, & Christian Philosophy By Rachel Warne During
the first week of Interim we had the privilege to sit in on a Practical
Theology class taught by Prof. Hanko. After this, several other ministers will each be able to teach us
for two days on varying subjects. Prof.
Hanko spoke to us first about prayer. The classes lasted all morning,
with five-minute breaks between the 50-minute sessions. We were
required to have our own personal devotions every day. Then we shared
the contents of our prayers with the class with the hope that it
would motivate us to continue doing this more diligently on our
own. The
first day we talked about what prayer is, and that in prayer we
talk to God after He speaks to us through His Word. We also discussed
the fact that we should have “inner-closet” prayers instead of praying
on street corners like hypocrites. We learned different requisites
for prayer. Tuesday we discussed the three types of prayer – praise
to God, thanksgiving, and prayers of petition. Wednesday we talked
about the problems involved with prayers of petition. On Thursday
we talked about what God’s will is and how we know what it is in
specific situations in our lives. And on Friday we discussed the
chastisement During
the first two days of this past week Rev. Allen Brummel taught us
about missions. We learned that the purpose of missions is not to
make the world a better place or advance the financial situation
of the poor, but to gather the church of Christ. On
Wednesday and Thursday Rev. Nathan Brummel came and lectured about
Christian philosophy. We focused mainly on the life of Augustine
and his books: The Confessions and The City of God. We are truly privileged at this school. We must thank God for this class in which we can learn more about practical ways of serving Him. |