Publications
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THE
HEADLINER
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Christian High School |
Friday,
February
1, 2002 |
Safe
in the
Shadow of the Lord
By Gina Verburg
We walked down
the aisle in threes and stood there, singing from our hearts, “Safe
in the shadow of the Lord, beneath His hand and power, I trust in
Him, I trust in Him, my fortress and my tower.”
After we finished
this song, we sang other songs from different periods of history.
The first two were our “less serious” ones, the Alphabet song and
Cold and Fugue Season. We had the audience chuckling when, at the
end of the Cold and Fugue Season, we all took out Kleenex and “A-chooed”
into them rather loudly.
When we sang
religious songs, we noticed many people in the audience crying.
I am very glad that we had this program because it shows what we
are doing at Heritage Christian High School. It also showed to us
that people really care about us very much.
After the program,
we went downstairs and were pleasantly surprised to find Mrs. Huizinga
and her two daughters, Courtney and Christina, handing out chocolate
roses to the girls and “Stars and Stripes” chocolate balls to the
boys. That made us feel appreciated!
Thank you to
everyone who came. I hope you enjoyed listening to our program as
much as we enjoyed singing for you.
Hot
Lunch Schedule
Feb. 7 Tacos
/ Mom’s Choice
Feb. 14 Burgers/Brats
/ Mom’s Choice
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Announcements
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High
Honor Students:
Bonnie
Boer, Emily De Jong,
Grace
De Jong, Meghan Looyenga,
and
Rachel Warner
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1.
Report Cards were mailed home Wednesday, January 30.
2.
History of Western Music Program: you may order video tapes
of the presentation that was given on Friday, January 25
for $10 by calling the Heritage Christian High office at
339-1733.
3.
Mrs. Mary Terpstra, the school’s guidance counsellor, will
be speaking to the sophomores on Friday about their ACT/PLAN
test scores.
4.
Future days off:
Febraury 18 Presidents’ Day
March 25 – April 1 Spring Break
May 27 Memorial Day
5.
Requested Announcement: A Family Dinner for the Protestant
Reformed Grade School will take place tonight at Calvary
Reformed Church from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
6.
Mr. Medema returned home late Tuesday. He is spending a
week recovering at home, and has a doctor’s appointment
next week Tuesday to determine the next steps in his therapy.
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The
War
By Michelle Zandstra
“Did you know that every single person is a soldier?” asked Rev.
R. Hanko. “Well, everyone is! Everybody is a soldier in this holy
war. In everything you do, you either side with God or with the
Devil. Does anyone know when this war began?”
It was January 22, and Rev. Hanko was speaking to us about the
antithesis. He went on to describe the holy war that we are in.
This war started in Paradise when Adam was convinced to eat of
the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. He disobeyed God’s law
and plunged us into sin.
Now we must fight. We must fight against our three-fold enemy:
Satan, the world, and our own sinful nature (flesh). We fight
by putting on the whole armor of God.
Rev. Hanko pointed out that we often lose battles in this war.
We lose when we don’t pay attention in church and when we refuse
to do our homework. We lose whenever we refuse to obey God’s Word.
Whenever we do something, we must ask ourselves, ‘Am I siding
with God or Satan?’
Revelation speaks of this war. The book is divided into two parts:
the first eleven chapters speak of our battle with the world.
The second eleven chapters deal with Christ’s battle with Satan.
Finally, at the end of chapter 22, we find that Christ has the
victory, even if at times it feels as if we are losing. We must
find our comfort in Romans 8:37: “…we are more than conquerors
through Him that loved us.”
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Computer
Applications
By Josh Poortinga
For those of
you that have not yet heard that we just started Computer Applications
class on Monday, January 28, I will clue you in. We will be learning
about databases, spreadsheets, and word processors.
As young people, Computer Applications class will keep us up to
date on many of the computer programs that are frequently used in
the business world today.
When we have finished this course, you should be able to ask us
any question about the computer, and we should be able to help you
out.
Remember, if you ever need a tour of the computer lab, Mr. Van Uffelen
will be more than happy to give you one.
Discipleship
By Melinda De Jong
On Friday, January 18, 2002, and Monday, January 21, 2002, Reverend
Carl Haak came to Heritage Christian High School and taught us what
is means to be a true disciple. To be true disciples, we must deny
ourselves, carry our crosses, follow, and obey Christ.
During our Friday classes we learned about the characteristics of
being a disciple. We looked up many Bible passages that talked about
true discipleship. As disciples, we must fight against living for
this world and ourselves and fight for dedicating our lives to serve
Jehovah. Christ was the only man who could ever live perfectly,
and it is Christ who must be our example.
On Monday we had quite a few discussions about discipleship. One
question that we faced was how to handle a sinning friend. We learned
that if our friend won’t listen to us, we must bring another friend
and go the way of Matthew 18. We also discussed whether a disciple
should be courting or dating. This interesting debate took up at
least an hour.
Our discipleship classes were very enjoyable. We left with several
fresh thoughts and ideas.
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