Southwest News

Hello! It’s so good to have a minute to connect with you. I’d like to share with you what we will be doing for our last service project this school year. With precautions so many businesses, nursing homes and community areas are taking regarding COVID, we have not been able to visit nursing homes or serve in the same capacity as we have in the past. However, being created in God’s image, we are people who still need other people! We are created for relationships and Jesus knows that better than anyone. He came to be the ultimate servant in order to restore our relationship with our Father.

For our final service project in lieu of our normal Day Of Service, we are going to have a “Week of Service” from May 10, through the 13. What will it look like? Let’s take a look.

• On Monday we’ll talk about serving after watching an introductory video together. Ask your child what the video was about!
• On Tuesday our Social Media Associate, Autumn Jones, and I will be on campus to help students reconnect with residents at nursing homes where we have not been able to visit. We will be filming students (during recess and lunch times) speaking to residents telling them hello, a little about service week and hopes to visit them in the future. We will combine those interviews with footage from Ms. Stivers and a song performance and send those videos to our nursing homes for residents to view.
• On Wednesday we will collect “Birthday Blessing Bags” to benefit children who live in residential single parent housing at Family Scholar House. These birthday gift bags are actually party items in a birthday gift bag that enable a family to put on a party for their child. We want everyone to be able to participate! So, here’s how we made our own “Birthday Blessing Bag.” At the Dollar Tree at Dixie Manor, we bought one happy birthday bag and stuffed it with an aluminum cake pan, a box of cake mix, a box of candles, a can of frosting, a card, a bag of balloons, a package of streamers and a birthday tiara. That’s a total of $9! If you are unable to make a birthday bag, your child can always make a homemade card. To really understand, watch the video here of Mrs. Carson and me!
• On Thursday each class will gather the birthday bags from their classroom and bring them downstairs for a time of prayer for all those who will receive them. Our 8th graders will then travel to Life Church on Pages lane (just around the corner) to help on their church campus.

After this week, think about talking with your child about all the Lord has given to us. Let’s ask ourselves, how can I use this to show others Christ, to be a blessing to the world, my city, my school, my church, my neighborhood, my family and friends?

Living in the Joy of Christ,

Aimée Games
Parent and Community Relations Associate
Christian Academy School System
P: (502) 753-4561
agames@caschools.us
www.caschools.us

Kindergarten through 5th Grade Field Day is on Friday, May 14, in the afternoon. If it rains, our make up day is Monday, May 17.

Students should wear gym shorts of an appropriate length and CAL Spirit Wear tshirts. Parents are encouraged to apply sunscreen on students before they arrive for school that morning. Students should bring a hat, beach towel and a water bottle.

Due to COVID guidelines, we cannot have any spectators/visitors. We only have a limited number of volunteers that have already been secured for Field Day as our middle school Junior Beta Club students will be assisting Mrs. Coble with the Field Day stations.

We are committed to Jesus being our Living Water. Clean water is a basic need that we take for granted every day. WaterStep is an outreach that reminds us to take the message of clean water, health education and well repair to places all over the world so that communities can fight disease and have the basic need of clean water. Send in your shoe donations between May 6-20! We will be collecting old shoes at the main entrance and junior academy (preschool) entrance in order to help fund the work of WaterStep. Bringing in any shoes will do, but especially bring in gently used shoes. All shoe donations must be turned in by Thursday, May 20. Pray God will use us to be a blessing to the nations so that they may have clean water and the Living Water!

We set aside the first week of May each year to show our appreciation to our faculty and staff for their service to all of our families. The PTO and Administration will be providing various treats throughout that week but you are welcome to show your support and thanks to your teachers and staff as well! Have your child make a card or write a letter, send an email or any other expressions of thanks would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you once again for the 293 shoebox gifts that we collected during 2020. Due to the partnership of churches, groups and schools like ours, 27,001 shoebox gifts were collected this past year in the Louisville area alone. That’s 27,001 gospel opportunities to share the Good News of Jesus with children around the world! This is a critical part of the more than 9 million gifts that were collected around the globe. Every shoebox gift, which becomes a Gospel Opportunity, is so important. You may also be encouraged to know that through the gifts collected in all shoebox-sending countries, a total of more than 9 million hurting children will receive a gift, have the opportunity to hear the Gospel, and many will have the chance to connect with a local church for on-going follow-up and discipleship through The Greatest Journey program. Thank you once again for your continued support of this ministry!

Back in February, Christian won a competition that includes interviews, audition and scholarship classes, and her solo dance. She is now Teen Miss Dance of the Bluegrass. In July, she will travel to Texas to compete for Teen Miss Dance of America. Please join us in congratulating Christian and praying for her as she prepares for this next round of competitions!

The school year is coming to an end and it is time to purchase a yearbook before the deadline!

Even though we have had quite a different year, we are blessed to have been able to capture amazing moments of our students with and without a mask! This yearbook will be unlike any other yearbook you will have in your lifetime. Here are some examples of some of the fun spreads we have! Feel free to purchase the yearbook with this link!