The Board of Trustees will soon be inviting you to a Christmas celebration at the high school. This is planned for Wednesday, December 12 @ 3:45. It should last for about 45 minutes or so. Please put this on your calendar as they desire to both wish you a Merry Christmas and offer their gratitude to you for the work you pour into this calling which makes Holland Christian an ever-growing, loving place for children to grow and know Christ's love.
FS Discovery Night
Forest School will be hosting its Discovery Night on January 17 6:00-7:00. Please mark your calendar, Ron and Rhea.
SS Discovery Night
South Side will be hosting its Discovery Night on January 29, 6:00-7:30. Please mark your calendars, everybody except Ron and Rhea.
Kids Food Basket
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Christmas is a time to love our neighbor. While certainly we are called upon to love our neighbor all throughout the year, Christmas is a time we want to be very intentional about where our focus lies. Consumerism gets packaged up in such pretty bows, it can be a challenge for adults as well as children. While we will be holding classroom Christmas parties, we also want to hold another kind of party this year. A giving party. There are children in our city who will go home during the two weeks of Christmas break with little to no food to eat. Their school-supplied meals will be inaccessible and they will face hunger. God calls on us every day to share our gifts so that others will see and feel God through our actions. In answer to that call, we are going to move into action.
This year we are once again going to partner with Kids Food Basket. Following their guidelines, we will be able to provide suppers for children to eat during the two weeks they have off of school during Christmas break. Kids Food Basket helps to feed 500+ children in the city of Holland. We will assemble a healthy trail mix for these friends of ours and we will decorate their brown bags. On Wednesday, December 19, all of our students will get busy packing trail mix, decorating bags and loading up food supplies.
Would you be willing to help bring this to life with your child at home? If you would like your child to participate in donating food items, would you invite your child to select which items he/she would like to donate from this wish list? Our children understand the discomfort of hunger pangs. Many of our children don't understand the fear that those hunger pangs might not be satiated. Please talk about God's call on us to serve our neighbors and help provide hope by filling hungry little tummies.
Items we would like to collect:
- Boxes of Cheerios
- Bulk Pretzels
- Bulk Cheez-It crackers or Goldfish crackers
- Bags of raisins
- Snack Sized Zipper-lock bags
- Brown Lunch Bags
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