Lubbock Adventist News

I’d like to take a few moments to talk to you about the children in our church. For those of you who are parents, I know you want your child to grow healthy and have a good life. I believe the best type of life will have Jesus at the very core of it. Every time there...

There’s only one way to celebrate the end of Lubbock Junior Academy’s 2010 – 2011 first semester. It has to be a sleep-over at the school. Seventeen students came at 6 p.m. Thursday, December 16, and didn’t go to sleep until 3:30 Friday morning. We started at 6 p.m....

This has been a busy and exciting time of the year for Lubbock Junior Academy students. It was a challenge to learn all of our parts for our Christmas program which we pray was a blessing to you. We’ve helped decorate our room and our weekly art class is dealing with...

The students were certainly in a pickle last Friday. We were the recipients of a huge jar of sour dill pickles. Our thanks to Mrs. Jan Yates for the hilarious donation. The students were thrilled to have large dill pickles as an addition to their usual sack lunch....

Most people don’t like to pack and repack boxes. However, if you had been in the classroom of the Lubbock Junior Academy during the week of November 22-26, you would have seen students happily packing toothbrushes, stuffed toys, washcloths, hard candy, bar soap and...

The greatest rewards of teaching do not come with the paycheck, but rather in seeing achievements of the students. In their first year of church school Lubbock Junior Academy students showed significant academic growth as measured by national Standardized Achievement...

A tradition started last school year continued this week. Lubbock Junior Academy participated in a Thanksgiving dinner. Last year, our students and teachers were able to fit nicely into just one of the classrooms for our dinner. This year, due to our increased...

One of the advantages of our school which practices the steps emphasized in the Mastery Learning Theory is that provisions are made for every student who accomplishes the basic academic requirements to move ahead to more challenging work. Two of our students, Kaylee...

Shop, sort, pack, check. Shop,sort, pack, double-check. All week the students and teachers of Lubbock Junior Academy (LJA) have been preparing shoeboxes for Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child http://www.samaritanspurse.org/ Operation Christmas Child collects...

The students and teachers enjoyed a unique Valentine’s Day. First, the students heard a worship story centered around 1 Corinthians 13, the “love chapter.” At noon they exchanged valentines and valentine treats. The students were certainly excited about the clever and...