Tues.      Mashed Potato/Gravy

Wed.      Chicken Nugget/Fries

Thurs.     Baked Potato/Corn Dogs

Fri.          Pita Bread Pizza

Mon.       Spaghetti/Meatsauce

Mar. 8-15, 2010

WHAT’S COOKIN’

Hot lunch prices:                                 Prices are:

            10 day ticket  $16.50

             5 day ticket    $8.25

              1 day ticket   $1.85

Working 6 days a year in kitchen –

                  School year prices will be:

                        10 day ticket  $13.50

                          5 day ticket    $6.75

                          1 day ticket    $1.55

Adult lunches $2.50 will continue to be $2.50

Milk prices:  $.30 1 day; $3.00 10 day ticket

*additional portion may be purchased for $.75

 Lunch Money Procedure

Beginning today we will be doing something a little different for those people who are out of lunch money.  Students will now be given a pass to call home AFTER they have gone through the lunch line and after they have eaten lunch but BEFORE they go to recess.  They will be calling home on the SECOND charge rather than the third charge.

Kindergarten Round-up

Tues., March 16^th call the school office 871-4581 for an appointment.

*A-Team Uniforms need to be turned in.

C-Team Basketball boys and girls 4^th & 5^th grade

Girls C-Team practice Thurs., Mar.  11 4:30-6:00PM

Girls 9AM Home Game Sat., Mar 13 with Peace

Boys C-Team practice  Tues., Mar. 9 & Fri., Mar. 12 from 3:00-4:30PM

Boys 10AM Home Game Sat., Mar. 13 with Peace

Lutheran Schools Week – March 7-12

Themes for the Day

Tuesday          Weird Hair Day & Crazy Hat Day

Wednesday      Clash or Mismatch Day

Thursday         Class Color Day

Friday             Around the World Day

Happenings for the Day

Wednesday  Chapel

Thursday      Wacky Olympics

Friday          Movie Day-starting at 12:30 Concessions sold 

                   for next years 8^th grade class

"Son"shine potluckWednesday, March 10.

Iowa Testing

Iowa Testing will be starting Monday, March 22.  Please make sure your child attends class, gets plenty of rest and breakfast.

Evan Johnson Scholarship

8^th graders the Evan Johnson Scholarship is available in the school office.  Applications will be accepted until April 15.  Applicants must be a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church & a present confirmation student.

Upcoming Music

Wed., Mar. 10   Jr. Handbells    4PM Worship

Wed.,  Mar. 17   Cantate    4PM Worship

Sun.,  Mar. 28  K-3   8:30AM & 11AM Worship

Baseball Clinic

VLHS is offering baseball clinics Sat., Mar. 27 (ages 12-14) or Sun., Mar. 28 (ages 8-11) from 1-5PM both days.  Cost is $15.00 each day.  Brochures are available in the school office.

Fish Fry-take out only

Fridays Mar. 5, 12, 19 & 26

From 3-7PM    Cost:   $7.50 or $8.00 w/onion rings

Meal includes Fish, Fries, Coleslaw, and Roll.

  Funds are supplemented by Thrivent Financial

** $9.00 Homemade Pies for Sale to raise funds for

the 8^th grade Washington D.C. class trip

Century Resources Fundraising ends 3-16-10.

Checks need to be made out to St. Paul School.

This fundraiser is to help us purchase a kiln for our art program.  On the letter it said it was for technology.  We need all of the students to participate not just the music students as printed.  Thank for your support. 

Washington DC

Would you like to be a part of the memories created Sept. 27-Oct.1?  Join the 8^th grade class on their Washington DC trip.  We would like to pay the lowest possible price for the trip and we will need 51 people to do so. If you are willing to be a part of the memories, please call the school office (871-4581 ext. 4) as soon as possible.

Millington AYSO

Spring sign up Sat., Feb. 20 12PM-3PM, Thurs., Feb. 25 5:30PM-7:30PM at the Millington Township Hall 8553 State Rd. Entrance is located behind the township office near the rear fire dept. garage doors.  For more information, contact the KICK line at 871-5425.

Early Dismissals

Please keep track of weather.  If we need to end early because of the weather you will still receive a school reach call, but please have arrangements made for your child.

Scrapbooking at St. Paul on Sat., Mar. 20 from 9AM-7PM in the Parish Hall. $5.00 to Pre register, $10.00 at the door. Everyone receives a prize. RSVP to the school office, Susan Jensen 871-4866 or e-mail: jenco33@yahoo.com. Please bring a dish to pass.  *Includes: coffee & water.

Millington Summer Baseball & Softball Spring Sign-up

at Meachum Jr. High on Tues. Mar. 16, Thurs. Mar. 18, Mon, Mar. 22, Wed., Mar. 24 from 6-8PM & on Wed., Mar. 31 from 1-4 & 5-8 during Kirk’s conferences.  Costs are $40.00 for one, $60.00 for Two, $80.00 for 3 or more.  For more information contact Dustin Glenn 871-3829 or Christian Selich 871-4039 or visit the website at millingtonathletics.webs.com.

Square 1 Art

Mrs. Amy Baldwin (our art teacher) has joined Square 1 Art.  This program will enable parents to purchase memento’s of their child’s art work in the form of key chains, stationery, ornaments, puzzles, shirts, aprons, and more. We always need gifts for family and friends…not to mention keepsakes where memories never end. More information to follow in the next couple of weeks.

Tuscola Youth Softball

Registration on Sat., Mar. 27 & Sat., April 3 from 10AM-2PM at the Tuscola ball park.  You may also sign up at the Pancake Supper on Friday, Mar. 26 at the Richville Legion Hall between 5-7PM.  This program is open to all boys and girls ages 5 thru 17 as of April 1.  Cost is $20.00 per child.  If unable to register in person, call 652-9700.

H & R Block Fundraiser

Anyone new using H & R Block this year can get a St. Paul $25.00 by using the referral form from the office.

 This past week I saw one thing I rarely see and one thing I had never seen before. The rarely
seen was Mrs. Baldwin in total tears. I have seen her weep when her grandmothers have gone home to heaven. They were sincere tears, but of the gentle quietly running down the cheeks variety. This past week I saw her absolutely drenched in tears because she had to look at what neither of us had ever seen before. When she arrived at school she went to check the kiln, anxious to see how her 6th grade students’ projects had turned out. She had been particularly pleased with them and had been very encouraged by the students’ efforts and the results of their good efforts. Nothing could have prepared her for what she was about to see.
The kiln malfunctioned. The pottery was all mined. It was literally stuck to the shelves and sides of the kiln. The kiln was also ruined. The reason for the tears was the thought of telling all those little potters that their beautiful and unique creations were mined. Nothing could ever restore them to the way they were.
While I ached for Mrs. Baldwin, while I again saw how blessed our children are to have a teacher who cares so very much about them, I also ached for Jesus. Why would I ache for Jesus? He did not have His students’ projects melt in a kiln. Why would He be weeping? Why would He need comforting?
This event took me back to what happened in the Garden of Eden. God’s art project, man, was perfect! Man was just the way God had formed and fashioned him out of the dust of the earth, much like the clay the students had used for their pottery projects. He even made man in His perfect image. When God’s art project came in contact with the one who lives in a fiery environment, God’s art projects, Adam and Eve, melted under pressure from the fiery one and became, momentarily, more attached to the kiln of satan than to the God who created them. That attachment to satan, mined Adam and Eve and all of us forever in terms of perfection. While perfection will not be restored to us until heaven, God used His only Son to pry us loose from satan’s kiln. While satan still does all he can to make things in his kiln look appealing, it still always destroys. satan’s presence destroys our relationships. destroys love, destroys beauty and hope and joy and our faith in the Potter. satan always wants us to question God. God simply wants us to trust Him.
How wise we would be to pray the words of Isaiah 64:8, “But now, 0 Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.” What wisdom is found in the words of Romans 9:20, “But who are you, 0 man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, ‘Why have you made me like this?’ Has the Potter no right over the clay...”
The good news is that our Potter will always love us and He will always have the ability to restore us. This is one of the reasons we sing, “Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation and renew a right spirit within me.” God has rescued us from the eternal kiln of hell. While satan daily tries to entice us to the offerings of the supposed ftrn loving and free environment of his forever hot kiln, today, let Christ’s love break you free from satan’s temptations and find true freedom. Let Christ’s love melt your heart and let His forgiveness reshape you and remold you into the person He created you to be. Trust Jesus who destroyed Himself to save you. Pay no attention té satan who is already destroyed and wants to destroy you just for his own entertainment.
Take just a moment to relax, be still and again feel the Potter’s hand on your heart and your life. You will feel like a new creation after sharing some honest words of prayer with Him. Tell Him you appreciate the way He created you. Trustingly place yourself and your situations in His hands and you will be amazed at what beautiful things He will craft with and through you. Remember His promise to all of us in Ecclesiastes 3:11, “He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, He has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that He cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.” Trust the Potter. Enjoy being His clay!

Come worship with us for…

2010 Wednesday Lenten Services

Worship Times: 4:00PM and 7:00PM

Mar. 10^th    “What Is Truth?”                         John 18:38

Mar. 17^th    “What Shall I Do, Then, with Jesus?”  Matt. 27:22

Mar. 24^th    “Shall I Not Drink the Cup the Father Has Given Me?”                   

                  John 18:11

     Soup Supper: 5-6:30PM – Free Will Donation

Proceeds go to St. Paul LYF & supplemented by Thrivent Financial.

       Holy Week Services

Maundy Thursday – April 1^st

               “Surely Not I, Lord?”  Matthew 26:21-28

                    7:00PM - Worship with communion

      Good Friday – April 2^nd

        “My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?”              

                      Matthew 27:46

        1:30PM – Worship

        7:00PM – Tenebrae

Easter Celebrations – April 4^th

      “Why Do You Look for the Living Among the Dead?”

                                     Luke 24:5

         6:30AM – Sunrise

                8:30AM – Worship with communion

               11:00AM – Worship with communion

       Easter Breakfast

                 7:30-10:30AM – Free will donation