Week 1 = Roaring Success!

Amen and Amen! 

What a wonderfully, busy, bonding, exhausting glorious week it at been at South Side! Ice Cream Social and Parent Night is under our belts. A week of teaching a practicing procedures is behind us. Celebrating the new hearts and lives who will sit at your feet for the year is in process. Groundwork is being laid for an exceptional year of growing stronger in God's grace...of singing like never before...of doing this life together for God's glory...of being All In in all that we do! My prayer is you have the opportunity to sit for a bit, in a cool spot this weekend, and thank God for walking you through this first week. It has been filled with God's goodness and faithfulness.

Little Caroline
As you may have already heard or read little Caroline Kanis, fourth grader at Rose Park, received amazing news late Wednesday night. Our staff has prayed, our students have prayed, our families are praying, our community has beseeched God for Caroline's healing. In March she was diagnosed with a DIPG tumor. The prognosis with this type of tumor is dire. No child has ever survived this diagnosis. God has heard and answered our prayers. In her MRI reading on Wednesday doctors shared with her parents that the spot in Caroline's brain, where once was located a large tumor, is now only a collection of dead cells. My feeble understanding is likely grossly under communicating this finding. But, at South Side, we are praising God with the sound of trumpets, horns, 5-gallon buckets, kazoos...whatever our hearts can get our hands on...PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW!

Staff Meeting
Our staff meetings will alternate days this year. We'll continue to hold our meetings over the lunch hour to accommodate as many schedules as we are able. Our first staff meeting will be held on September 8 beginning as close to 11:40 as we are able. Our agenda will include the following:
Discipleship Practice motion training ;)
Makers Space project
SPARK ideation
Grandparents Day

Let's get it done!

Oldest and Only/Transportation Home Forms
As soon as possible, would you please bring those forms to Pat? Thank you

Convocation
For your radar, our all-school convocation will take place on Wednesday, September 7. We have bus details arranged and will share those out as the date approaches. In terms of your schedule, we'll depart between 8:40-8:50 and should return between 9:40-9:50.