Honor Roll
Congratulations to Alexis Versoza for earning 2nd Honors at Xavier High School. In order to receive 2nd Honors you must earn an 85 or above in all of your classes. Alexis graduated from Evangel Middle School in 2010. Way to go Alexis!!
Each month elementary students have a “Spirit Day” where we focus on a theme, read books, and dress up for that day’s theme. September was “flash forward” day when students dressed like their grandparents or how they thought they might look in 70 years. October was “friends” day and they dressed up like twins or triplets. November was a fun time for elementary students as we celebrated Thanksgiving our spirit day was combined with the Harvest Fair and they dressed up like Cowboys, Indians, and Farmers. All of Elementary got together in November to participate in our annual Harvest Fair complete with crafts, games, obstacle course, and face painting! Instead of participating in Operation Christmas Child this year, we focused on collecting donations for Hurricane Sandy victims. We are so proud of our students for stepping up and having a heart of ministry! Each class had their own Thanksgiving meals in their classes and invited their parents to come and enjoy some great food and company.
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“During this season of Thanksgiving, I wanted to let you know how thankful I am to God for blessing our family with Evangel. It is filled with a body of believers, who are unapologetically sold out to Christ and totally committed to nurturing young men and women in the love and foundation of The Word. I love knowing my child’s education is TRULY Christ-centered with an emphasis on helping him develop his own personal relationship with our Lord and Savior that he is strongly encouraged and equipped to share.
May the Lord continue to guide, strengthen and bless you and the Evangel family.”
Our student body had the privilege of hearing from a missionary family, the DiSalvo’s, who will be heading to the mission field of India. They leave in about three weeks to begin their language school. Our students were very receptive to hear what they had to say and asked many questions of how they would be sharing the gospel. The students found out that due to the countries rules about missionaries coming in, they are coming their to help students with their education as well as opening a coffee shop to help form relationships with the people of India and through those relationships, tell them about the eternal gift of Jesus Christ. Our students were so moved by the DiSalvo’s heart and love for Jesus and the people of India that they took up and offering of almost $500.00. The elementary students had also been taking up school chapel offerings since the beginning of the year and were able to add $200.00 more dollars into the offering so the DiSalvo’s could be blessed with a $700.00 check to help them as they leave to spread the gospel into a country that so desperately needs to hear about the love of Jesus Christ.
Spirit week has been a blast this year. Each day students dressed up in a new theme to earn points for their class. On Monday, students came dressed like their friends for “twin day.” Some friends came in groups of four and five all dressed alike. The most memorable twin outfit was a group of our senior girls that dressed in pink hello kitty pajamas. Tuesday was filled with more fun as students went all out for “career day.” They were dressed like nurses, doctors, fashion designers, military and the list goes on and on. The most well thought out outfit was a student who came dressed like her favorite teacher. She had such great detail in her costume, it was comical. Wacky Wednesday brought out some interesting characters as students came in all forms of mix-matched outfits. Teachers also had fun with this one. Our traditional “spirit day” Thursday had so much excitement during the pep rally. For the first time in Evangel history, we had a drum cadence set up during the pep rally by three of our students who played and got the crowd pumped up during our varsity vs. staff/alumni basketball game. It was a great game and the week ended in a great “time” as students came decked out in various decades. The students came dressed up in 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. Mr. Hernandez was the most talked about outfit as he came dressed in his leather jacket and 50’s style hairdo.
Other than dressing up during the week, students also competed in games during the week to earn points for their class. Some of the games included, root beer chug-a-lug, tug-a-war, candy relay, cracker whistle relay and many more. The students really went out this year and the most talked about game since the start of games two years ago is the egg toss. With eggs flying through the air, it’s always amazing to see the one team who never breaks the egg. It came down to our seniors and sophomores this year, but the seniors pulled it out. Spirit week has been a blast this year and both our JV and Varsity boys basketball teams came out with two victories this week as we kick off our fall and winter sports season.
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The high school feast was filled with so many different types of food. It was great and the students loved it. Even before the feast started, the cooking elective worked hard to help get all the dishes set up. The students of course, ate a lot of food and then they played games, heard from our student government, and competed in contests. They had a great time competing with each other but it seemed the best part of the day was dessert time. What is a feast without dessert? There was so much dessert on the table, they could have each had an entire plate full. Thankfully, they shared with their teachers. The feast was very memorable and a favorite time of year here at ECS.
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The middle school had a great time at their annual feast. Students brought in numerous dishes to share with their classmates as we gave thanks to God for His provisions this year. While food is a big part of the feast, the students also had the opportunity to play games, activities and contests. The most memorable contest was the cattle call contest. Students from each class came up and gave their best cow sound. It brought about many laughs and great fun. Our students are such great sports. We also played limbo and voted for our student government during our feasts. They created lasting memories as we celebrated a time of thanksgiving.
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In honor of all our fellow teddy bears we have invited them to visit our classroom for our Teddy Bear Celebration.
We made flags for our special teddy bears so we can participate in the teddy bear parade. Each child also introduced their bear to the class.
We also played with our teddy bears during center time. The end of our day entailed a song that says “Teddy bear, teddy bear turn around,
teddy bear, teddy bear touch the ground, teddy bear tie your shoe Teddy bear I love you.”
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