The Raider Report

St. John's Lutheran School exists to educate each child in a Christ-centered environment for a life of service to God and man.

“Prepare the way for the Lord….Make straight paths for Him” “All mankind will see God’s salvation”

(Luke 3:4, 6)

I have been to in the heat of the deserts in the Middle East; the cold of the Rocky Mountains and the

humidity of the Bayou of Louisiana. The differences made me think of the changes Jesus makes in a human soul. Those areas where water flowed is like peoples’ souls when they have Jesus. It is alive and green with growing things. The desert is like souls that do not know Jesus. It is a wasteland where nothing could survive.

That was how people’s souls were when John the Baptist began preaching. They were wastelands of hopelessness and despair. John told them to repent, have God get rid of those rocks of sin and doubt. His message about Jesus offered new life and new hope through Jesus, their Savior.

Some seven hundred years before John lived, Isaiah wrote about him. He prophesied that John would “Prepare the way for the Lord” and would “make straight paths for him.” Isaiah added that through John’s work, “All mankind will see God’s salvation.”

Without Jesus, our souls would be like the desert too. There would be no life, no hope. We need to

hear John’s message to repent. Such repentance prepares the way for Jesus with his gospel of

forgiveness. He makes our souls live and grow with faith. In Jesus we see God’s Salvation.

God’s blessings to you during this Advent season as we are prepared for the celebration of God’s gift of salvation in Jesus Christ our Lord.

Merry Christmas!

Mrs. Susan Hessong 2nd

Braxton McNew 5th

Kali Vaughn 6th

Brynna Brooks 9th

Landry Young 9th

Ava Hien 13th

Carson Lynch 16th

Navy Wurtzburger 18th

Gus Fritz 26th

🎄🎁A special thank you to Mrs. Holly Sawyer for another fantastic Christmas Shop! This is an event that the students look forward to each year and each year it gets better and better! It is such a joy seeing the students find the perfect gifts for their loved ones.

Also a big thank you to all of our Christmas Shop helpers: Megan Davis, Janet Klosterman, Shelby Barker, Chase Sawyer, Mark Sawyer, Trina Hoevener, Debbie Holle and all the SJS teachers!!!

The St. John's Sauers Christmas Eve program will be on Tuesday, December 24, beginning at 6:00pm.

Students participating in the program should meet in the school gym by 5:40pm. The program will be held in the church, please dress in church attire:

Boys: Please wear a nice sweater or shirt/tie.

Girls: Please wear a dress or a dressy top/sweater. Dresses should be no shorter than fingertip length, Sleeves on dresses should be at least 2-finger length, anything smaller (spaghetti straps) must be covered with a sweater.

The 5th and 6th Grade class conducted their Gingerbread House fundraiser again this year in support of the Sertoma Angel Tree Project. Students were able to vote this week for their favorite gingerbread house. The 5th/6th class raised a total of $931.01! The winning group this year was "The Grand Champion Show Barn" gingerbread house designed by Olivia Darlage, Olivia Klosterman, Ellie Johnson, and Lela Sommers ($408.60). The second place group was "The Egg" gingerbread house designed by Brock Rueger, Jackson Schepman, Simon Florine, and Lucas Wischmeier ($326.62)

The winning group went shopping yesterday afternoon to donate Christmas gifts towards the Sertoma Angel Tree Project. A special thank you to all of our school families for their generosity supporting this fundraiser!

The Lutheran Junior Honor Association will be sponsoring the Candy Cane Grams this year. The last day to purchase a Candy Cane Gram will be Tuesday, 12/17. Students can also purchase them in the morning before school. Proceeds from the Candy Cane Grams will support our Quarter 4 Mission Project: "Love The Hungry" where our students will participate in packing meals.

CANDY CANE GRAMS: 50 CENTS

SEND A CANDY CANE GRAM TO YOUR FRIENDS, TEACHERS, SIBLINGS!!

🎄Our SJS students participated in a Christmas ornament service project for the Jackson County Visitors Center. Check out the ornaments our students made at these local businesses in Brownstown:

• Brownstown Greenhouse
• Brownstown McDonald's
• Anytime Florals
• The Peoples Bank
• Edward Jones

As the winter season is approaching, there could be a chance for a school closing or two-hour delay. Parents will be notified through a Gradelink message for any closings or delays. A post will also be made on our school Facebook page.

The chapel offering collected during quarter two will support the Lutheran Federation Mission Project of putting religious Christmas programs on the local television stations. Last year they had over 67,000 viewers watch these television programs!

December has 15 hot lunch days

$3.50/day

$0.50 Extra Milk/Classroom Milk

$1.50 Extra Main Entree

Dec. 16: 5th & 7th Boys vs St Peters

Dec. 17: 8th Girls & Boys @ Jennings Co

Dec. 19: 6th & 8th Boys @ Calvary

Dec. 20-21: 6th Boys Holiday Trny

Dec. 18: Chapel @ 8:30

Dec. 19: SJS Students will go Christmas Caroling

Dec. 19: Preschool Christmas Program 7:00pm

Dec. 20: Last Day of Qtr 2

Dec. 21-Jan.5: Christmas Break

• Dec. 21-Jan.5: Christmas Break
• Dec. 24: Christmas Eve Program 6:00pm
• Jan. 6: Classes Resume
• Jan. 17: Dad's Breakfast
• Jan. 20: Snow Make-up Day #1
• Jan. 24: Early Dismissal Day
• Jan. 27-31: National Lutheran Schools Week
• Jan. 31: Qtr 3 Midterm
• Feb. 10-14: Book Fair
• Feb. 14: Mom's Breakfast

Needing any St. John's Sauers apparel?? For yourself? For gifts?

1st Place Spiritwear (A portion of sales is donated back to SJS PTO)

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