Lubbock Adventist News
The President’s Education Award . . .
Two of our Lubbock Junior Academy students; Hayden S. McCombs and Timothy J. Verastegui, are recipients of the President’s Education Award. This award recognizes students who show outstanding educational growth, improvement, commitment or intel- lectual development in...
OshKosh Camporee Bound. . .
The Lubbock Pathfinder Club plans to attend the August 11-16 OshKosh Camporee. This will be the first time a Pathfinder Club from our Lubbock Church will actually attend this International Camporee and be immersed in the spiritual blessings only this camporee has to...
Essential Elementary Education . . .
Building A Better World ~ One Child at a time Tuesday, August 19, 2014 will be the first day of the 2014-2015 school year. LJA will blossom into a Kindergarten through 9th-grade Christian Academy, maintaining the mission of Building a better world ~ one child at a...
National Kite Month . . .
Every month there is something to celebrate. In April, we made kites in honor of National Kite Month. We learned that the exact date and origin of the kite is not known, but it is believed they were flown in China more than two thousand years ago. One legend suggests...
Mastery Level Learning…
Finishing a challenge is a great feeling! Every LJA student has completed their math book for the year. Two students have even worked through one and a-half math books. In addition, every student in grades 3-8 know all addition, subtraction, multiplication, and...
Week of Prayer . . .
Pastor Leroy Green was the speaker for our Spring Week of Prayer. He has been a good friend of our students in and out of school. Pastor Green has conducted a Fall or Spring Week of Prayer for four of the school’s past five years. We know we’re in for something...
Passover . . .
Last week, we learned how people of the Jewish faith observe Passover and dietary guidelines described as Kosher. First, the students were reminded how the Children of Israel escaped Egyptian bondage. The word “Passover” comes from the 10th plague, where God “passed...
Clever Queen . . .
We have been reading Clever Queen, one of my favorite childhood books, Elder Eric B. Hare, also known as “Dr. Rabbit” by the Burmese Karen people, wrote this classic. This wonderful story recounts tales of devil worshipers and the jungle, including a young girl known...
October Newsletter 2014
Dear Church Family, I trust this letter will find you blessed and in health. We have a wonderful and exciting couple of months ahead. I want to encourage everyone to prayerfully remember our upcoming Prophecy Seminar with Richard Halversen. The following illustration...
The Blueprint . . .
It has been my privilege to teach in Seventh-day Adventist schools for 36 years. I have been encouraged and challenged by the education innovations the Seventh-day Adventist Church has implemented in our schools. The North American Division (NAD) of Seventh-day...
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