Digest 2018-01 Jan - Clover Sites
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Visitor’s Day Thursday, January 18th, 8am to 12noon
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Children entering preschool through 5th grade for the 2018–19 school year can come experience the morning as a Miramonte Student. 6th-8th grade Shadow Days arranged individually.
Mainspring Digest
School to Church • January 2018
Nurture ~ Empower ~ Inspire
Compassion and Service Characterize Miramonte Student Council Lisa Mitchell and I are proud to work with our student leaders here at Miramonte Christian School. Last year our outgoing student council voted to participate in Christmas in the Park in downtown San Jose. This year they gave up their lunchtime, study hall, and even after school time to help us prep the tree ornaments and decorations for our first ever Christmas in the Park participation. We also have students who are highly motivated to think of others. When a disaster happens or they see an accident on the side of the road, they request prayer for those involved and want to help. In the past year we have invited our community to help raise money for: an orphanage in Africa; hurricane relief efforts in the US and the Caribbean; fire relief for our sister school Redwood Adventist Academy; and flooding relief for the St. Thomas and St. John Adventist Miramonte Student Council with Sponsors Lisa Mitchell and Yolande School located on the island of St. Thomas in the U.S. Melbourne Virgin Islands. We raised over $4,000 for these efforts and are thankful to the students who gave up their pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and various paper dollar amounts as well as the parents, grandparents, visitors, and faculty who donated and supported our bake sales, offerings, and classroom buckets to help us be a blessing. (see the rest of this article on page 2)
Value of an Adventist Education An Adventist education benefits the child not only for the present but also impacts the child’s future and his or her community for good. Do you recognize this former Miramonte student? He is none other than Jim Pedersen, the President of the Northern California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists - just one of many Miramonte students who have become leaders and bless thousands of people.
Miramonte Develops Discerning Leaders As the Student Council President of Miramonte, I love being a school leader because we get to show what a Christian school is like. Last year, I was the Student Council Pastor so being on the student council is not new to me. The teachers allow student council members to plan events for the students. Since I have been here, the teachers listen to the students and their ideas. The council is easy to lead since they work well together like a well-oiled machine. Being a leader also helps me to be a better person. My leadership position gives me many opportunities to solve problems; this experience helps me with my own personal problems. Sometimes I deal with students who have an argument or are upset. I spend time finding the source of the issue, discuss possible solutions, and then bring the two parties to an acceptable compromise. I love being a student leader at Miramonte! by Deron Mtangi, Student Council President
Compassion and Service . . . These events were all sponsored through our Student Council. They also do fun activities like providing hot chocolate on a cold day or popsicles on a hot day, planning Spirit Week and Spirit Days, and also leading out in several chapels throughout the year. It has been a pleasure nurturing and encouraging our leaders of today and tomorrow. These students are effecting change on our school activities and procedures, and in our community both near and far. I praise the Lord for the ministry our student leaders have been and will continue to be. by Yolande Melbourne, 7th gr. homeroom teacher and Student Council Sponsor
The Principal’s Window
with Rick Maloon
Miramonte Christian School
1175 Altamead Drive
Los Altos, CA 94024
(650) 967-2783
3 year olds - 8th grade
Upcoming Events
1/17 2/3 4/21
7pm Winter Concert grades 4-8
Education Sabbath at E. Palo Alto
Education Sabbath at Sunnyvale
More information at www.miramonteschool.org and daily posts on our Facebook & Instagram pages “Miramonte Christian School”
What is Your Life’s Blueprint? One time Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to a group of middle school students in Philadelphia. He counseled them, “This is a most important and crucial period of your lives because what you do now and what you decide now at this age may well determine the way your life will go. I want to ask you a question, and that is: What is your life’s blueprint? . . . Now each of you is in the process of building the structure of your lives, and the question is whether you have a proper, a solid and a sound blueprint.” For our children to have a solid and sound blueprint, we need to have the three-fold work of the home, the school, and the church - and make no mistake, you need all three - to encourage, direct, and inspire our little ones and youth to make their life’s plan after the pattern of Jesus Christ. The value will only be realized as we see our children become Christian men and women, leading lives of blessing for their families and their communities.
ited v n re I
Visitor’s Day Thursday, January 18th, 8am to 12noon
...
Children entering preschool through 5th grade for the 2018–19 school year can come experience the morning as a Miramonte Student. 6th-8th grade Shadow Days arranged individually.
Mainspring Digest
School to Church • January 2018
Nurture ~ Empower ~ Inspire
Compassion and Service Characterize Miramonte Student Council Lisa Mitchell and I are proud to work with our student leaders here at Miramonte Christian School. Last year our outgoing student council voted to participate in Christmas in the Park in downtown San Jose. This year they gave up their lunchtime, study hall, and even after school time to help us prep the tree ornaments and decorations for our first ever Christmas in the Park participation. We also have students who are highly motivated to think of others. When a disaster happens or they see an accident on the side of the road, they request prayer for those involved and want to help. In the past year we have invited our community to help raise money for: an orphanage in Africa; hurricane relief efforts in the US and the Caribbean; fire relief for our sister school Redwood Adventist Academy; and flooding relief for the St. Thomas and St. John Adventist Miramonte Student Council with Sponsors Lisa Mitchell and Yolande School located on the island of St. Thomas in the U.S. Melbourne Virgin Islands. We raised over $4,000 for these efforts and are thankful to the students who gave up their pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and various paper dollar amounts as well as the parents, grandparents, visitors, and faculty who donated and supported our bake sales, offerings, and classroom buckets to help us be a blessing. (see the rest of this article on page 2)
Value of an Adventist Education An Adventist education benefits the child not only for the present but also impacts the child’s future and his or her community for good. Do you recognize this former Miramonte student? He is none other than Jim Pedersen, the President of the Northern California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists - just one of many Miramonte students who have become leaders and bless thousands of people.
Miramonte Develops Discerning Leaders As the Student Council President of Miramonte, I love being a school leader because we get to show what a Christian school is like. Last year, I was the Student Council Pastor so being on the student council is not new to me. The teachers allow student council members to plan events for the students. Since I have been here, the teachers listen to the students and their ideas. The council is easy to lead since they work well together like a well-oiled machine. Being a leader also helps me to be a better person. My leadership position gives me many opportunities to solve problems; this experience helps me with my own personal problems. Sometimes I deal with students who have an argument or are upset. I spend time finding the source of the issue, discuss possible solutions, and then bring the two parties to an acceptable compromise. I love being a student leader at Miramonte! by Deron Mtangi, Student Council President
Compassion and Service . . . These events were all sponsored through our Student Council. They also do fun activities like providing hot chocolate on a cold day or popsicles on a hot day, planning Spirit Week and Spirit Days, and also leading out in several chapels throughout the year. It has been a pleasure nurturing and encouraging our leaders of today and tomorrow. These students are effecting change on our school activities and procedures, and in our community both near and far. I praise the Lord for the ministry our student leaders have been and will continue to be. by Yolande Melbourne, 7th gr. homeroom teacher and Student Council Sponsor
The Principal’s Window
with Rick Maloon
Miramonte Christian School
1175 Altamead Drive
Los Altos, CA 94024
(650) 967-2783
3 year olds - 8th grade
Upcoming Events
1/17 2/3 4/21
7pm Winter Concert grades 4-8
Education Sabbath at E. Palo Alto
Education Sabbath at Sunnyvale
More information at www.miramonteschool.org and daily posts on our Facebook & Instagram pages “Miramonte Christian School”
What is Your Life’s Blueprint? One time Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to a group of middle school students in Philadelphia. He counseled them, “This is a most important and crucial period of your lives because what you do now and what you decide now at this age may well determine the way your life will go. I want to ask you a question, and that is: What is your life’s blueprint? . . . Now each of you is in the process of building the structure of your lives, and the question is whether you have a proper, a solid and a sound blueprint.” For our children to have a solid and sound blueprint, we need to have the three-fold work of the home, the school, and the church - and make no mistake, you need all three - to encourage, direct, and inspire our little ones and youth to make their life’s plan after the pattern of Jesus Christ. The value will only be realized as we see our children become Christian men and women, leading lives of blessing for their families and their communities.
