Lubbock Adventist News

Perhaps you’ve noticed the Lubbock Junior Academy teachers and school board members looking a bit exhausted the past few months. It’s because we’ve been working on the school’s first North American school evaluation. The document or self study we created for the...

If there is one thing Dr. Simmons and Miss Zimmermann especially love about the Seventh-day Adventist Church, it has to be the world-wide mission program. Every Friday, they emphasize the area of the world where the Sabbath School mission offerings will be going. On...

Hanging from the ceiling at Lubbock Junior Academy are red plates each with a long red cord hanging from it. Glued to the plate is a heart with the verse, from Psalm 91:14, “Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high,...

Remembering is always good for our students. Friday, January 13, we took time to remember the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The morning worship recalled a time when a young Martin played with two white neighborhood boys. When Martin and his two friends began to...

Some of our students spent several class periods making a replica of the tabernacle as described in Exodus 25. The replica included the Tabernacle fence, the Ark of the Covenant, the Altar of Burnt Incense, the Table of Shewbread, the Candlestick, the Laver, and the...

Thank you for continuing to remember that our 5th through 8th grade students have been invited to join with Sandia View Elementary for a week-long educational trip to Washington, DC. the first part of May, 2012. LJA Students must raise a total of $4,000. You can help...

Operation Christmas Child 2011 We will accept shoebox supplies until Monday, Nov. 21. Please read the following story of a child’s generous heart: Jackson Sober celebrated his fifth birthday in October. He had the usual party with cake, friends, and gifts. But the...

The students of Lubbock Junior Academy had a unique experience this month. They sang for the residents of Quail Ridge: An Alzheimer’s, Memory and Dementia Care Facility. The students sang and visited with the residents. The students learned how the staff cares for...

Friends come in all shapes, sizes, and ages. During the week of November 7-11, our good friend, Leroy Green presented our Fall Week of Prayer. He shared the idea that friends are in all places. He used the Guide Magazine DVD called, “Friends in All Places.” We sat...