C H R I S T O U R R O C K

L U T H E R A N

H I G H S C H O O L

“ W h e r e F a i t h a n d

K n o w l e d g e G r o w ! ”

U P C O M I N G

E V E N T S :

Aug 5– New Family

Orientation 6:00pm.

Fall Sports Meeting

7:00pm

Aug 9 - Freshmen

Orientation 12:00pm-4:30pm. Mentor/

Mentee Meet & Greet

4:30-5:30, Back to

School Picnic 5:30pm

Aug 14 - First Day of

School - 11:16am

dismissal

Aug 28 - Senior &

Senior Parents

Meeting 6:00pm

Sept 2- Labor Day-No

School

Sept 6 - Lifetouch

Picture Day

Sept 11 - CORLHS

Blood Drive 2-6pm

Sept 14 - Trivia Night

6:00pm

Sept 26 - National

Honor Society

Induction

A U G U S T / S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 9

C O R L H S e d u c a t e s

a n d e q u i p s

t o d a y ’ s y o u t h

i n f a i t h a n d

k n o w l e d g e w h i l e

g u i d i n g t h em t o

b e c om e C h r i s t i a n

l e a d e r s .

Christ Our Rock LHS

9545 Shattuc Rd.

Centralia, IL 62801

226-3315

www.corlhs.org

www.corstallions.org

Welcome Back! It is always humbling to watch the many volunteers that helped organize events to ensure a smooth start to the school year and to get the school ready by cleaning, painting and the many other tasks we completed. Thank you to everyone that came in over the summer to do various jobs around the school. We especially thank all of you for your continued prayer support, and we will be praying

for you also. Your labors and prayers are evidence of God’s Blessing’s on Christ Our Rock and clearly

He has blessed us richly! We started the year with 118 student, with several more possible enrollees. Right now we have 24 Freshmen, 34 Sophomores, 33 Juniors, and 27 Seniors. We are still accepting applications. Please have interested families call the

school office 226-3315 to set up an appointment.

CHRIST OUR ROCK BEGINS IT’S 16TH SCHOOL YEAR

CORLHS Class of 2019 Graduation Ceremony Christ Our Rock Lutheran High School celebrated its thirteenth commencement ceremony on May 26, 2019, honoring 22 graduates. A special video presentation arranged by COR faculty featured photos of the graduates before the service began. CORLHS Executive Director and Principal Don Duensing welcomed students and guests to the ceremony. Seniors , Erin Harrell, Macie Martin and Nathan Ellis gave the Bible readings for the ceremony. Mr. Don Duensing offered various recognitions and announcements and presented the graduating class to the Association Board of Directors. The graduates represented the four surrounding counties of Marion, Clinton, Washington and Jefferson. Faculty member Wilfred Pennington gave this year’s commencement address. Class of 2019 co-valedictorians Brook Bowman and Mollee Eickmeyer and salutatorian Madylin Kroeger also addressed the audience. Participants in the ceremony also included cross bearer Jamie Gogolek and candle carriers Esther Belli and Emily Crompton. Special music during the ceremony included “Lift High the Cross,” and “Go My Children, With My Blessing.” Association Board of Directors President Thomas Kasten awarded diplomas to each of the graduates. Before each diploma was awarded, Mr. Duensing read information about the respective student, including the personal Bible verse selected by that particular student. The parents of the graduates met each student immediately after he or she crossed the stage, congratulating them with a warm embrace and moving their tassel. Following the presentation of diplomas, prayer for the graduates was provided by Rev. Nathan Wollenberg of Trinity Lutheran Church, Hoyleton. This year’s graduates included Brooke Bowman, Erin Carr, Hunter Childress, Mollee Eickmeyer, Nathan Ellis, Samuel “Nathan” Gardner, Erin Harrell, Jayden Howe, Kaitlyn Hutson, Jennifer Johnson, Haydn Johnston, Tara Kellermann, Anthony Koen, Madylin Kroeger, Lillian LaBelle, Macie Martin, Siu Ng, Kyla Palazzolo, Trecie Pennington, Braden Price, Hunter Reichert, and Zane Simmons. Christ Our Rock will celebrate its sixteenth year of operation with the 2019-20 school year. For the seventh consecutive year, the student body will exceed 100 students in number, with next year’s graduating class anticipated to be 27 students.

SCHOOL WEBSITE: We have created an additional website for you to keep up with our athletics and

activities that is kept up to date more often. We are currently working on making it more mobile friendly, but the desktop edition works great. Be sure to check it out at www.corstallions.org. You may now access RenWeb through this new website. However, in order to access it on a mobile device, you will need to purchase the RenWeb app. Instructions are on the bottom of the login page. You may access information without any additional purchases on the desktop edition. The original website, www.corlhs.org, is still good for the daily/monthly calendar, making donations, and making FACTS payments. Thank you for your patience as we make changes with our websites.

This year there were 53 golfers and 14 teams that participated in the 16th annual Tee Off

Golf Scramble on June 9th, which raised $8,534 to benefit Christ Our Rock. We were

blessed with good weather all day. It was a wonderful day for golf and fellowship. Thank

you to all of our sponsors including our event sponsor Unverfehrt Charitable Foundation.

Congratulations to the winning team consisting of Michael Fleeman, Tyler Fleeman, Matt

Hatley and Will Postlewaithe. Congratulations also to Trent Ducket for winning the putting contest. We thank

all of the participants, volunteers, sponsors, Greenview Golf Course and The Turn’s Restaurant & Sports

Lounge for helping us make this annual tournament a great success.

The 16th Annual Tee Off Golf Scramble Results

Centralia Halloween Parade: Saturday, Oct. 26, - 6:00 p.m. We are looking for 15-20 people to walk with our entry in the parade and hand out items to those along the parade route. Please contact Mrs. Kroeger in our school office if you can help.

Office Assistance: Please let us know if you are ever able to help in the office with clerical duties such as photocopying, assembling large mailings, answering phones, etc. This can be scheduled according to your availability. Contact the office for more information.

Christ our Rock Memorials/Honoraries: A memorial/honorary gift to a Christian school is certainly a fitting way to remember a friend or family member. Providing a Christian education to the next generation of Christian leaders is first class Kingdom building. The following memorials/honoraries were received recently during the months of March-August at Christ Our Rock in remembrance and recognition of: Greg Burger Pam Marshall Bill Tolliver Connie Dries John McCoy Gus Unverfehrt Ray Hanenberger Susan Rommelmann Nancy Zieren Doug Hugo Andrew Schefelker Wayne & Marlene Maschhoff’s 65th Wedding Anniversary We still need people to adopt an extra month mortgage payment for August - December 2019. Not only does this lift a burden from the school budget, it gets our building paid just that much sooner! What a great way to support the kids and future of CORLHS! We still need more adopt-a-month heroes! Please consider adopting a month ($1,000 min). Contact the school office for more information.

OFFICE RECORDS—UPDATES / CHANGES: Anyone with a name, address, email or phone number change,

please notify the school office in order to update our records. Thank you.

We Thank God For Mrs. Frazee, Mr. Harding & Miss Belli We thank God for the many dedicated men and women we have serving the students of Christ Our Rock .We are sad to see any of our “family” leave, but we are thankful for their service. Mrs. Frazee has been with us as the Spanish & English teacher for two years. Mr. Harding has been with us as the Music teacher for three years. Miss Belli has been with us as the Art teacher for one year. We feel blessed to have had them as part of our faculty and wish them all the best. They will truly be missed.

We Welcome New Faculty & Staff Christ Our Rock welcomes three new faculty members, Mrs. High, Mrs. Bierbaum, Mr. Renaud and one new coach, Mrs. Lurkins. Mrs. Andrea High is our new Music teacher. Mrs. Pam Bierbaum is our new English teacher. Mr. Matt Renaud is our new Art & Spanish teacher. Mrs. Rhonda Lurkins is our new cheerleading coach. Mr. Tim Bierbaum will be the Cross Country and Track coach. Mr. Dan Kueper will be the new volleyball coach and Mr. Brent Rueter will be the new JV Boys Basketball coach. Please keep all of our faculty & staff in your prayers.

FALL BLOOD DRIVE

The Service Club of the Student Leadership Team is sponsoring an American Red Cross blood drive on Wed., Sept. 11th at 2pm - 6pm in the CORLHS gymnasium. Our goal for this drive is 50 units. Thank you for helping us spread the word.

Trivia Night Coming Soon COR Foundation's Trivia Night will be on Sat., Sept. 14 (New Date) at 6:00p.m., at CORLHS. All proceeds will go to COR’s Foundation and will be used to support the school’s Rev. Mueller Mentor Grant program and future growth & development. You may purchase a chair for $15 or a whole table of 8 chairs for $100 (must be paid at one time, by one team member). Open to all ages. Doors will open early to decorate and set up. This year’s theme is “College Football”. Popcorn will be provided and soda will be sold but you may bring your own goodies. (No alcohol) Sponsorships are also available for $50. If you’ve never gone to a trivia event, give this a try. Put a group together today. If you can’t get anyone else to join, just sign up and we’ll get you new friends. Call the school office, or go online at www.corstallions.org for more information.