Honor the Cross Easter Chapel Service

All junior academy through 8th grade students should bring an artificial flower to school with them on Monday, March 22, as we will be blossoming our cross in preparation for Easter!

Our Easter chapel service will be on Thursday, March 25, at 9 a.m.

Due to COVID-19 regulations, we will not be able to host parents or other guests for this service but we are thrilled that our kindergarten through 8th grade students and staff will be able to worship together socially distanced in the SECC-Southwest sanctuary.

 

Spirit Wear Orders Due March 26

Order forms for spirit wear will be coming home today (March 18). Due to the fact that Spring Break is right around the corner, we are making the order forms due by Friday, March 26. We will NOT take any orders after March 26. Please fill out and return your order form so that we can process your order and get the spirit wear in as quickly as possible. A copy of the order form is also available here.

Celebrate World Down Syndrome Day, March 19

Please join Christian Academy in celebrating World Down Syndrome Day and the students of our Providence School on Friday, March 19. Click here for a brief video that you may share with your student and here for more details on how the school system plans to celebrate together. Please note that no new tshirts are being sold this year. Students may wear any of their favorite shirts from previous years with their rocking socks and jeans.

Contact Mindy Crawford, Director of Educational Resources, at mcrawford@caschools.us with any further questions.

Thank you for your support!

Quarter 3 Service Project Totals

Thank you to everyone who gave so generously to our Quarter 3 service project – You CAN Make A Difference! We collected 619 food items for the food pantry at Beechland Baptist Church. This is almost double what we collected last year! Please be in prayer for Beechland’s ministry and for the people they serve through their food pantry.

ACSI Math Olympics, March 10

ACSI Math Olympics is Wednesday, March 10. Students will take a series of tests in computation and reasoning skills. Please pray for the following students as they compete for our school: Isaiah Curry, Paul Favors, Natalie Magee, Ethan Mathis, Chase Oechsli, David Velazquez, Shane Black, Ava Butler, Kayley Harris, Griffen Hatchett, Kaylee McClure, Reece Thompson, Alex Campbell, Alyson Christy, Bella Crowe, Matthew Morgan, Caleb Thompson, Brayden Vititoe, Mia Boyd, Zach Dennison, Aiken Edelen, Bella McCarty, Donail Smith, Sydney Whitehead, Ava Donahue, Mark Huff, Braelynn Logsdon, Kelton Pratt, Jaxon Sedoris, Anabel Darrull, Ashleigh Dowell, Marshall Miller, Landon Penick, Marissa Sedoris and Landon Stillwell.

 

Celebrating Black History Month – Henry (Hank) Louis Aaron Jr.

Henry (Hank) Louis Aaron Jr., was born in Mobile, Alabama in 1934. Aaron began his professional baseball career in 1952 in the Negro League. He joined the Milwaukee Braves of the major league in 1954, eight years after Jackie Robinson had integrated baseball. Aaron was the last Negro League player to compete in the majors. He quickly established himself as an important player for the Braves and won the National League batting title in 1956. The following season, he took home the league’s MVP award and helped the Braves beat Mickey Mantle and the heavily favored New York Yankees in the World Series. In 1959, Aaron won his second league batting title. Aaron is best known for breaking Babe Ruth’s record of 714 career home runs, which he established in 1935. On April 8, 1974, in front of a crowd of over 50,000 fans at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Aaron hit his 715th career home run in the fourth inning of a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Sadly, in the months leading up to the new record, Aaron received piles of racist hate mail and death threats from those unhappy about seeing the Babe’s record broken, especially by a Black man. Aaron, who played for the Milwaukee Braves from 1954 to 1965 and the Atlanta Braves from 1966 to 1974, spent the final two seasons of his 23 years in the majors with the Milwaukee Brewers. When he retired in 1976, he left the game with 755 career home runs, a record that stood until August 7, 2007, when it was broken by Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants. Aaron still holds the records for most career runs batted in (2,297), most career total bases (6,856) and most career extra base hits (1,477). After retiring as a player, Aaron became one of baseball’s first Black executives, with the Atlanta Braves. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982. Aaron died on January 22, 2021 at age 86.

Source:  history.com