December 2014

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Volume 11, Issue 2

...the heights and strength of the hills are His...

Educating in Truth and Righteousness

Athletes celebrate season by M. El-Aasar

With the aroma of food in the air, student-athletes gathered November 4 to receive awards and talk about how God helped them in their fall sport.

This was Betsy Dunaway’s and Jessica Crespino’s first year playing volleyball at the school. “This was a whole new thing. I have never done volleyball before so it was a new experience,” Betsy said. “I count my team as part of my family,” she also said.

Cross country runner Joey Crespino and high school volley-ball player Ashlyn Shultz had a lot to say about their coaches. “I am glad that I did cross country with Mr. Brusk. He was a good coach. I wouldn’t have chosen any coach or sport,” said Joey.

“Our coach was great. He really helped us stick our team together this year,” Ashlyn said.

Awards were presented by the coaches during the sports banquet. Mr. Brusk was the coach of the cross country team. Angie Peters was the junior high volleyball team coach and was assisted by Mallory Ferguson. Keith Backensto was the high school volleyball coach.

The Christian Character award was won by cross country runner Barnabas Hawkinson, junior high volleyball players Dani Dillon and Mary El-Aasar and senior high volleyball players Jessica Crespino and Christy Love.

Most Improved award was won by: Joey Crespino on the cross country team, Rachel Featherstone and Autym Peters on the junior high volleyball team, and Jessica Crespino and Ashlyn Shultz on the high school volleyball team.

Most Valuable Player award was won by: Kirk Stewart for cross country, Niamh Coughlin and Jordan White for junior high volleyball and Elyse Peters and Beth Warren for high school volleyball.

“Everyone who got awards deserved them; everyone gave it their all. We all make mistakes—that’s a given, but everyone played well. We cared about the game.” said Ashlyn.

Wrapping up the seasonby E. Dunaway and K. Vandorn

The Junior High Art class sculpted a life-size nativity out of tape. Using six models, the art class wrapped them in plastic wrap and packing tape to make the tape statues. After the cast was on, the model was cut loose and the cast taped together again. Zachary Webster, Liam Coles and Cheyenne McCabria were the models for the wise men. Matt Warren was the mod-el for the shepherd. Austin Ellwein was the model for Joseph and Elizabeth Dunaway was the model for Mary.

Austin Ellwein said he thinks that being wrapped is okay. “Sometimes it gets a little hot inside and a little tense but I also like it at the same time.”

The goal was to finish six human sized figures, a baby, a manger and a stable before the end of the semester. Mr. McDonald did not think the junior high could, but they stayed after school to finish the job. Many of the students find it exciting to help prove the principal wrong.

Zachary Webster found the wrapping itself “awkward and kind of scary.” However, he liked being wrapped because “it captures my awesomeness.” Many of the models agree with him.

“I like being a model, but my knees kill me after half an hour of kneeling. I feel sorry for Mary because she is always portrayed as kneeling and her knees must be numb after 2000 years of that.” said Elizabeth Dunaway.

Liam Coles constructed a stable and a manger for the tape figures to be dis-played. The night before the last day of the semester, he and other junior high students worked with Mrs. Coughlin to setup the scene in the tree grove next to the entrance of the school.

Joey Crespino starts creating the head for a shepherd by taping Matt Warren’s head while Sam Del Toro adjusts the arms of a wise

man.

Sixth graders Cade and Michael play in the sixth grade band during the elementary concert December 12. Secondary students

performed their concert the Friday before Thanksgiving.

photo by K. Vandorn

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New student: Mikeyby A. Ellwein

Mikey Summers, a new high school student, joined this year’s junior class. He is a very inter-esting student with different hobbies that all express him. He especially likes “nerdy things,” fellow junior Ashlyn Schultz said.

Mikey has lived in two other states, Ohio and Illinois. Mikey likes Kansas except for the cold! Mikey Summers lives with his sister, Ken-ya, in a home with Kenya’s husband and daughter.

Mikey finds no difference living with his older sister as he said living with his sister is “the same… just like home.” Mikey appreciates what his dad does as a pastor and he said it is “pretty cool.”

He said he likes this school so far and that “everybody’s nice.” Mikey’s hobbies outside of school are skateboarding, basketball and airsoft. His favorite of them all is skateboard-ing.

The church which Mikey goes is Westview and he enjoys his church as well. Mikey is very well into his way with Jesus and Mikey also sees his children being good and faithful to Jesus and to become Christians.

John 3 is Mikey’s favorite chapter in the Bible. As we go forward into the year, we tend to get excited over new students and exciting events such as sports. Overall, Mikey says “yeah, I’m ready.”

photo by A. Ellwein

Elementary kids can do rocket science, can you?

by E. Dunaway and K. VandornThe fifth and sixth graders have been going to Starbase, a

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) pro-gram, Tuesdays this fall to learn rocket science among other things. They and the Manhattan Catholic School fifth and sixth graders go to the National Guard building where they do hands-on activities and listen to lectures.

Sixth-grade student Michael said, “I love Starbase because we get to work with computers and programming and stuff, and I really like to do that, and I don’t get to do it other plac-es. We also get to skip Grammar.”

Many of the students said their favorite part was the hands-on activities.

Fifth-grader Kyler said that his favorite part was “doing the robot thing,” where they programmed Lego Mindstorm robots.

They almost all agreed that the activities were fun and the lectures were boring. Fifth-grader Hannah’s least favorite part is “all the lectures.”

However, some people do enjoy the lectures.Sixth-grader Rachel, one of the kids who likes the lectures,

said that she loves learning new things and the only thing she would leave out is the review because “I want to learn more, like something else we haven’t learned.”

The fifth and sixth graders have lots of fun activities that they get to do at Starbase. The students have projects that involve robotics, flight simulators, creo, a design program, Computer Aided Design, experiments, chemistry, physics and engineering. They are put into groups that they work with to get their assignments done. The groups are both fifth and sixth graders but are from the same school.

Sixth grader Daniel said that he loves Starbase but wishes “that we could choose the groups instead of being assigned a group.”

Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all

generations.Psalm 100

O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods. In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also. The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land. O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD

our maker.Psalm 95:1-6

Mind gamesby M. El-Aasar

Buzzing in and feeling the rush is just amazing, according to Hannah and Jessica who are both on the Junior Varsity Scholars Bowl team.

“Our team is awesome and we laugh all the time.” Hannah said. “Although we are distracted we get a lot done.” Hannah also said. Hannah and Jessica agreed that they enjoy it and think it is really exciting.

Jessica compared answering a question to bumping a vol-leyball. “ It’s the same feeling,” she said.

Although Jessica didn’t compete in the first meet, she knew most of the questions. “I just wanted to see how it worked,” she replied.

Hannah loves the meets and people especially answering the questions in meets. The JV High Scholars Bowl Team has had two meets both in which they won third place.

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Chapel reflectionsby A. Ellwein

In life, we face time of trouble. We find ourselves in a storm and trials that almost seem overwhelming. But that’s when we need to turn to God.

One particular Chapel in November especially spoke to me. Our guest speak-er was Pastor Jim Lowry from Light-house Baptist Church and he opened Chapel with a mind-capturing question, “are any of you in a trial?” Those who are not are heading that way.

We opened up our Bibles to James 1:2 which states “Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds,” As we started to let that sink into our minds, Mr. Lowry gave an analogy.

There was a hurricane in Florida and

this family was preparing the house by boarding it up. As they were continuing, the dog of the family wanted to play catch. The master wondered why the dog would want to play catch at a time like this.

Because the dog knew, with his master, he was safe. The dog knew his master had the ability to keep the dog safe and away from danger.

“When people see us,” Mr. Lowry said,”they should see love.” Mr. Lowry ended with a story of a friend preacher who lost his voice until he found hope in the darkest moment of that trial.

“It’s often hard to focus on God when we’re in the deepest of storms,” he said. This is a powerful message and we should continue to follow what Mr. Lowry spoke about that day.

Thanksgiving by E. Dunaway

As Thanksgiving comeswe eagerly await

the arrival of turkeyfood on our plate.

Stuffing our facespigging out

do we ever rememberwhat Thanksgiving’s about?

The Pilgrims camesailed over the seassearching for a land

where they could worship as they please.

Enjoying their bountythanking God above

they shared their timewith those whom they loved.

This year pleasedon’t stuff your facegive thanks to God

by saying grace.

Spend time with familyand time with friends

and don’t let giving thanksever end.

Students celebrate

Thanksgivingby E. Dunaway and M. El-Aasar

Thanksgiving is a time of year when people visit family, go shopping, and feast on food. Students plans were no exception.

Haylei Giersch said “I eat food we have a lot of food. I’m going to my dad’s in Utah to eat his food. I like food. Oh, we also have family over.” Many people have traditions that involve food.

Dani Dillon said “The only traditions my family has are the foods we eat.” Other people said that they will have all the traditional foods such as turkey, pumpkin pie, green beans, and cranberry sauce.

Nathan Featherstone said it quite simply. “Eat food. Traditional.”

Nearly everyone has some sort of tradition with Thanksgiving. Some student traditions are really interesting. Ashlyn Shultz and her family have a marshmallow fight. Several people go black Friday shopping or watch football. Lots of people have family over or go to their family.

Matt Warren said “We always go to my grandma’s house. We have lots of food and all gain about ten pounds. All my relatives come and we sometimes watch football. We eat lots of turkey and ham.”

“Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His love endures forever.”

Psalm 107:1

“Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the powerand the glory and the majesty and the splendor,

for everything in heaven and earth is yours.Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom;you are exalted as head over all.

1 Chronicles 29:11-13

Door Decorating for Jesus

Cheyenne, Sara and Dani decorate the door to the yearbook and newspaper room. This door and the K4 door were

awarded first place.

Ashlyn designs the snowman for the library door which received second place.

photos by K. Vandorn and J. White

How great is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you,

which you bestow in the sight of men on those who take refuge in you.

Psalm 31:19

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Football makes playoffsby L. Linville

Touchdown! That is one way to describe this football season. This season the Eagles got over 75 touchdowns. The school’s football team, the Manhattan Eagles, is a joint team with CHIEF. In addition to homeschoolers, four FHCS stu-dents played football this year: freshmen Josh Ward, soph-omores Caleb Linville and Curtis Minick, and junior Parker Eaves.

“I was really excited when we found out we were going to the playoffs,” said Caleb, “I was also proud because Eagles football has only gone to playoffs one other time.”

The team had one of the best records this year. They had five wins against Independence, Central, Veritas, Sunrise, and St. Johns. Their four losses were against WAHAA, Cair Paravel, Heartland, and St. Mary’s. In the playoffs they beat St. Mary’s and lost to Heartland.

The St. Mary’s playoff game was quite a shock to bystanders as St. Mary’s has never been beat by the Eagles. Curtis believes that they played well because the weather was better. Caleb and Parker say that they played well because they wanted to play their best and were better prepared to play. The Eagles got fourth in the playoffs.

Chaustin goes through the tunnel after the boys defeated CHIEF in the Shea tournament. The boys took second in the tournament

after losing to Veritas.

Basketball beginsby M. El-Aasar and J. White

Basketball season has started and everybody plays a specific position, whether it be post, point guard, or wing.

There are nine new players on the junior high and high school teams. The high school boys team has three new freshman who are Rollie McClatchy, Khalil Smith,and Nathan Featherstone and a sophomore, Elijah Irving. One freshman, Kelsey Warren and an eighth grader, Saydi Peters were added to the high school girls team.

Saydi Peters is playing on both high school and junior high girls team. Because high school did not have enough players on the girls team, they pulled Saydi to play any position.

The junior high girls team is allowing fifth graders this season and Lily Linville has a lot to say. “I wish I could have played as a fifth grader!”

“I get in the way of myself, I slow down instead of going on.” Nathan Featherstone said.

Being on the team is important to many players. “Basketball is the only good thing I am good at, it’s who I really am on the court.” Khalil said. “I want to be recog-nized by somebody.” he also said.

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photo by S. Peters

Brittany steals the ball in the girls win against St. Xavier in the Shea

tournament. The girls also took second after losing

to Veritas.

photo by L. Linville

December Birthdays5 Niamh C.6 Christy L.8 David W.9 Derek P.10 Daisy H.12 Eliana P.13 Hannah T.15 Zachariah S. Lauren R.16 Dylan H.17 Matthew W.18 Austin E.23 Miss Reynolds25 Jesus!27 Edward M.30 Audrey A.

January Birthdays4 Elijah K.5 Rachel F.11 William T.22 Bridget C.27 Khalil S. Shaiann W.28 Mr. Carter

Spelling bee participants show off their certificates after the spelling bee December 16. Twelve students representing grades three through eight competed for the title of school spelling bee champion, this year won by Lily Linville.

Hoop, Holler and Shoot winners are Luke Kvasnica and Leah Sapp.