God’s Providential Care
Grace De Jong

The first year of Heritage Christian High School is coming to a close. As we look back, we see the great providence of God throughout this year. We see His love and His care for His people. After twenty long years of waiting, the doors were opened and students were sent to this school.

This year has had its series of ups and downs just like every other school. But we have something different from many other schools as well. We have Christ as our focus, and the teachers have applied His truth to every area of our studies.

In our Bible and history classes we learned about God’s preservation of His Church though the ages. In biology we continually fought against the theory of evolution and substituted in its place the truth of God’s six-day creation. In our math classes we saw how God gave order to everything. In English, as we pondered certain works of literature, we compared the worldview of several writers to our own Christian worldview. In computer applications we discussed how computers can be used for the glory of God and how they can be used for sin.

Everyday we learn more and more about Christ and how He is working in our lives. We have not only studied to learn about how we are to live and manage in this world, but also how to apply Christ to every area of our lives.

We were the first classes to receive this special instruction, but we by God’s grace will not be the last. God will preserve His truth and He has and will continue to preserve His covenant for years to come.

Next Year’s Juniors: The PSAT test will be administered at Heritage on Tuesday, October 15, 2002, during the school day. Deadline for registration is June 15. Please call Mary Terpstra by May 25 if interested in taking the test. The PSAT is a two-hour test with three sections: math, verbal, and English grammar. The cost for the test is $10.00. Two important reasons for taking the PSAT are: 1.) preparation for the SAT test. 2.) attempting to qualify for the National Merit Scholarship Award. For more information go to www.collegeboard.com.

Next Year’s Sophomores: The PLAN test will be given to all sophomores on Tuesday, October 15, 2002, during the school day. The test will be approximately 65 minutes long and will test English, math, reading, and science reasoning. The PLAN test helps assess status of academic preparation for higher education, and relates personal characteristics to education and career options. For more information go to www. act.org/plan.

Speech Skills
Rachel Warner

“You are all going to have to make an informative speech for English class, and it must last 3-5 minutes.” Mr. Van Uffelen broke the news to us last week. This caused many, if not all of the freshmen class, to look up in fright. Standing up in front of the class and making a five-minute speech? It all sounded beyond our capabilities.

Mr. Van Uffelen gave us a topic for our speeches: church history. We could pick any event in all of church history and prepare a speech. After learning about how to write and prepare a speech, however, it doesn’t sound too bad – especially since we get to incorporate our computer applications skills into this project by using PowerPoint to enhance our speeches. Using PowerPoint, we will put our main points onto different slides, and when we get up to them in our speeches, we will click the mouse button to project the next point and PowerPoint slide onto the screen.

We can’t wait to hear each other’s speeches and find out how each of us will perform in front of the teacher and our classmates.