December 2004
Dear Parents,
Happy Holidays and
Christmas Greetings! We are very excited
to share with you our plans for elementary chapel during the month of
December. We just completed our
Thanksgiving focus and the students and staff decorated a “Thanksgiving Tree”
with leaves on which they had written notes of thanks to God for His many
blessings. We will now use the leaves to
transition into our December theme which is “God’s Gifts – Our Gifts”.
We will spend two
weeks focusing on the gifts God has given us – with
Our final chapel
on December 15 will be a birthday party for
These gifts will
be placed at the manger. The director of
the Gospel Mission will attend the party and receive these gifts on behalf of
needy families in the Basin.
Please help your
child select an appropriate toy, help them clean it and be sure to label it
with age and gender appropriate information.
We would like you to place it in a sack and send it to school with your
child during the week of December 5 along with enough wrapping paper to wrap
the present. We DO NOT want you to
purchase a new toy; we are helping the children learn to give generously of
themselves.
Thank you so much
for your support as we begin this valuable lesson! Please feel free to phone the office with
questions or ideas. As always, we love
to hear from you!