Hebron Happenings

Newsletter No.22 Friday 3rd August 2012 Dear Parents We welcome 20 students from Namiki Secondary School to Hebron Christian College for 8 days. The 11 girls and 9 boys are 15 and 16 years old and are accompanied by their school maths teacher, Mr Hitoshi Iida.The students are all homestayed by Hebron families and school staff. During their stay at Hebron. They will learn English every morning until lunchtime, and during the afternoons will integrate with Hebron classes, ice skate with the Year 13 students (see photos) and visit Nga Kakano Maori Christian School in Te Atatu South for a powhiri, hakas, pois songs and te reo Maori lessons. A dinner and farewell Concert will be held on Thursday night before they return to Japan on Friday.

Loto Ministries from California This week we were blessed to be ministered to by 14 young adults and their leaders from Loto Ministries who are based in Fresno, California. The group sang songs to the primary children and performed some humorous dramas including Spiderman (right), much to the delight of the masses! The secondary students also enjoyed their performances too and the Youth Pastor gave a powerful message on living for God in a secular age.

Coming Up

Mission Performance Our 2011 Mission team continues to bless our community with follow-up from last year’s mission to Africa. The team were invited to share their mission report with the Mt.Albert Presbyterian Church’s Ladies Guild on Thursday afternoon. Emily-Anne Muli, Elise van Polanen, Eleanor Calder and Julia Woo offered their services and blessed the ladies with 3 beautiful songs and oral reports on the impact the mission had on them. The ladies were quite thrilled to hear I was christened in the very same church many years ago in my babyhood years with one lady saying she remembered my family way back then!

Year 7 & 8 Student & Parent Meeting Parents of current Year 7 & 8 students are reminded about our special evening meeting on Monday night (6th August) at 7:30pm in our school hall. We plan to bring you up-to-date with the secondary school

programme and tell you why enrolling your child in our secondary department will greatly help to ensure a successful secondary school career. PARENTS…PLEASE MAKE VERY EFFORT TO ATTEND THIS MEETING. Your understanding of all the issues surrounding current secondary programme, NCEA assessment and modern learning will help your child immeasurably achieve with success.

Musical News – Star of Persia Only four weeks to go! Letters will be going home early next week regarding costumes, and we already have many costumes we have hired from the Playhouse Theatre. The rehearsals are getting larger, as we incorporate more and more students, and add the songs. Students required for rehearsal this Monday afternoon from 3.30pm till 5.00pm are:

Griffiths Samuel Y9

Berry Sofia Y9

Ross Genevieve Y10

Oram Bethany Y10

Nuysink Michael Y10

Sellar Jon Y11

Turner Ruth Y12

Aso Lafi RM11

Lin Luda RM11

Atkins-Lam Josiah RM11

Butler Oliver RM11

Matthews Brendon RM11

Biondic Peter RM11

Low Justin RM11

Deng Faith RM11

Hamada-Zhu Sophia RM11

Takahashi Nonoka RM11

Ware Logan RM11

Kim Sun Jin RM11

Magengezha Thelma RM11

Scott Sarah RM11

Collecutt Joel RM11

Griffiths Logan RM11

Cummins Rebekah RM11

Gillies Ezekiel RM12

Schnell Madeline RM12

Doss Sarah RM12

Mah Stefanie RM12

Heeringa Theodore RM12

Henderson Cole RM12

Molinyawe Bennjamin RM12

Ngo Jamie RM12

Hamada-Zhu Austin RM12

Hamada-Zhu Brian RM12

Scott Marco RM12

Garner Thomas RM12

Gozali Noah RM12

Raea Tukua RM12

Scott Marco RM12

Gao Yue David RM14

Retzlaff Hermann RM14

Susabda Jonathan RM14

Sherwen Ishmerai RM14

Taylor-Dayus Molly RM14

Thomas Natania RM14

Turner Noah RM9

Mathew Damita RM9

Squirrell Emily RM9

Chin Olivia RM9

Poon Eunice RM9

Shuttleworth Abigail RM9

Gillies Elijah RM9

Chauhan Nikhil RM9

Perich Morrison RM9

Help Needed to Paint Musical Backdrop Mrs Scott is seeking help from parents to help paint the musical backdrop in the school hall this coming Saturday 11th August 11am to 3pm. Please contact her if able to help. Email: ruths@hebron.ac.nz Thanks. Also, coat hangers are urgently needed to hang costumes on. Please send to school foyer or office.

Fundraising

MOVIE MONEY

We are still needing to sell another 30 movie money vouchers valid for 12 months to be used at any movie, the cost of which is very comparable to what you would pay at the movies but gives the school a generous profit. Money raised through this will be doubled by a parent in the school, so please help us out by picking some of these up at the school office. There is 3 kids tickets left at $12.50 so be in quick for those. There are 24 adult tickets. So parents, senior school students and teachers, can you help us out by buying these up next week. Don't forget the movie 'The Hobbit' comes out in December and you can use these tickets then. They also can be upgraded for 3D tickets. SCHOOL GALA

Carolyn Welch is in the process of ringing parents who helped with stalls in 2010 to see if they can look after the same stall again. But also we will be trying to get each class and its parents and students behind a stall and activity this year. So please, parents and children, put the date of the gala (27th Oct) in your diary to help out. We hope this will be a way you can get to know the parents in your kids classes better too. PLANTS

Angela Garner is taking charge of the plant stall at the gala this year. Please ring her now if you want to pot plants, cuttings from your own garden and sow seedlings, be it annuals /perennials or summer vegetables for sale. This is a great way we can make a high profit margin at the gala. We will grow some heritage seeds up too as a special aspect of the plant stall. This need to happen now so the new plants will be a good size by October 27. Donations of potting mix and empty plastic pots and seedling trays and yoghurt containers suitable for small seedlings can be bought to the school foyer from next week, every week and this will be passed onto Angela. We will get some classes involved at school growing seedlings and Angela will come in to work with students to do this. If you want to work on the plant stall then ring Angela (ph 520 1935) to give her your name. SECOND HAND CLOTHING

Sarah Heeringa is in charge of second hand clothing and is pulling a team together for this purpose. If you have second hand clothing, shoes, bags, jewellery and accessories, please put them in bags or boxes in the school foyer or in the room on the second floor of Rahiri house marked for this purpose for Sarah and her team to sort. Just keep it rolling in everyone, ask friends if they have good quality items to donate and bring theirs as well. TRADE ME AUCTION-CAN YOU HELP

We need someone who is Trade Me savvy to volunteer time to putting quality items on auction around the time of the gala and afterwards. There is flexibility with this. Last gala we had some nice new items donated for the auction and they sold well under the price expected because we didn't have the volume of bidders to put the price up. So this Gala we thought we would sell items like this online to get closer to their real worth. TOY STALL-CAN YOU HELP

We need a Mum to manage the toy stall and gather helpers from parents in your child's class to share this. HOT BBQ BREAKFAST-BRUNCH-CAN YOU HELP

We need a Mum or Dad to gather a team of about 8-10 men and women to cook on BBQ's cooked breakfast brunch, sausages, bacon, egg, baked beans etc to be eaten at school picnic tables from 9.30-1.30 on the day of the gala. If you can help manage the toy stall, trade me auction or BBQ Breakfast/Brunch, please email Carolyn Welch urgently at swishprojects@gmail.com or H 09 8455316 or 021 2980587. MEDIA & WIFI PROJECTS

Have not been forgotten, we are still seeking more sponsorship for these. If you know of any avenue to follow up on sponsorship to make this happen in the school then please let Geoff Matthews know.

Miscellaneous

TUPPERWARE PARTY FUNDRAISER COMING UP

There will be a Tupperware party at the school for Mums and their friends to come and the profits from hosting this will go tot he school. More about this next week.

Christian Foster Parents Urgently Needed A Hebron past student, Rachel Goulter, working as a Senior Practitioner with the Open Home Foundation, has asked me to help her find homes for children needing fostering. She writes: I am now working for Open Home Foundation (OHF) which is a Christian child & family support service. We seek to recruit & train Christian foster parents to help care for children with disabilities, or who are in need of care and protection. Since I know that Hebron represents many great Christian families, through staff and students, I thought it would be awesome if we could discuss possible ways to make more people aware of our agency and the need that exists in our communities! We could meet in person, or discuss opportunities over the phone or by email. The link to our website: http://www.ohf.org.nz/ My email address is Rachel.Goulter@ohf.org.nz or phone 634 2057.

REDEFINING MARRIAGE? There is a nationwide debate about the definition of marriage going on at the moment - and it's pretty passionate, and at times, heated! Sometimes ugly, unfortunately. The level of vitriolic emails and messages Family First are receiving, and the unprecedented attack on their website shows just how difficult the debate will be. Other supporters of the bill are getting their share as well - which is unacceptable also. Marriages are a matter of significant public concern. Marriage encourages the raising of children by the mother and father who conceived them. Marriage is a social practice and every culture in every time and place has had some institution that resembles what we know as marriage, associated with procreation. Every society needs natural marriage. This is not about human rights - it's about human flourishing! And, further more, as Christians, we know God invented marriage to be the life long union between a man and a woman

WHAT CAN YOU DO TO VALUE MARRIAGE?

Go to www.protectmarriage.org.nz and sign the petition

Enjoy your weekend watching sport…maybe the Sharks-Chiefs final or maybe the Olympic Games!

Geoff Matthews Principal