In late August, Hurricane Irene knocked out power, downed trees, cancelled school for five days, and flooded homes, farms, and businesses in the communities that Terra Ceia Christian School serves. While some families were devastated by the Hur-ricane, others were left without much damage. Seeing the opportunity to put into practice this school year’s theme, “Changed Hearts to Change His World,” students and parents spread out over five locations around Terra Ceia to help our neighbors cope with the disaster.

One resident wrote a thank you note expressing her extreme gratitude for the help Terra Ceia Christian students and parents gave in cleaning up her yard. Another resi-dent cried as she expressed gratitude for the work students did that would have taken her days or weeks to accomplish.

The mother of a resident that the students helped said over and over how the help was sent right from heaven to clean up a task that they would never be able to do.

Some say Terra Ceia means “where heaven meets the earth.” During these days, the students and parents of Terra Ceia Christian were “heavens hands on earth.”

Upcoming Events Dec 15 Christmas Musical

Dec 16 Christmas Break Begins 1/2 day

Jan 2 Classes Resume

Jan 11-13 Exams

Jan 13 Pancake Supper End of 1st Semester

Jan 16 No School Possible Makeup Day

Feb 3 Soup Supper

Feb 10 Basketball Senior Night

Feb 13 Basketball TIC Tourn. begins at Ridgecroft

Mar 3 Yard Sale

Apr 9 Spring Break Begins

Apr 16 Classes Resume

Apr 20/21 Dinner Theatre

May 11 Spring Musical

June 1 Graduation

Basketball schedules available at tccschool.com/basketball.cfm

DECEMBER 2011

VOL 1 ISSUE 1

Terra Ceia Christian School

CONNECTIONS

Students Serve Area Post-Hurricane

Some of the students, parents, and volunteers who helped clean up yards and tackle downed trees such as this one. Pictured are (top, left to right) Kendra Van Staalduinen, Rebecca Harrison, Caitlin Grif-fin, Natalie Grissom, Kevin Sickert, Kendal Bowen, Austin Hardison, Jon Stotesbury, Tim Stotesbury, (bottom, left to right) Kim Grissom, Deb Van Staalduinen, Irene Vander Weit, and a local resident.

First Quarter Honor Roll Announced

Seniors Blake Gelderman Chandler Furlough Jesse Hubers Madison Hudson Lisa Striblin Austin Van Staalduinen

Juniors Kevin Beasley Melinda Boyd Robbie Goodwin Shannon Hillaker Sydney Hubers Jonathan Stotesbury

David Striblin Andrew Van Staalduinen Pearl Vander Aa

Sophomores Kyle Hendrix Brent Hubers Clint Sickert Aaron Williams

Freshman Wesley Butcher Taylor Newman

Volleyball and Soccer Teams

Wrap Up Fall Sports Seasons

Terra Ceia Christian School Connections

8th Grade Kendal Bowen Chase Furlough Caitlin Griffin Rebecca Harrison Ben Hubers Mollie Hubers Shelby Klaassen Makala Matthews Hayley Noles Colin Van Staalduinen Marin Van Staalduinen Lindsey Woolard

Varsity Soccer Team

(Back) Chase Furlough, Austin Van Staaldu-inen, Blake Gelderman, Andrew Van Staaldu-inen, Jesse Hubers, Wes Butcher, (Front) Kendal Bowen, Killian Nowrey, David Striblin, Aaron Williams, Dawson Jones, Colin Van Staalduinen

Varsity Volleyball Team

(Back) Chelsea Jefferson, Kendra Van Staalduinen, Chandler Furlough, Jessalyn Bowen, Natalie Grissom, (Front) Lindsey Rodgers, Kennedy Dail, Kayla Bundy, Shannon Hillaker, Melinda Boyd

Junior Varsity Volleyball Team

(Back) Angie Koss, Hannah McDonald, Mollie Hubers, (Front) Shelby

Klaassen, Brittanie Koss, Marin Van Staalduinen

7th Grade Dawson Jones Catherine Meijer Austin Wynne

The Knights Varsity Volleyball

wrapped up its season in the tourna-

ment’s second round going toe-to-toe

with the #1 seeded team.

All-Conference: Chandler Furlough

Honorable Mention: Natalie Grissom,

Kendra Van Staalduinen

The JV Volleyball Team also finished

strong, playing their best games of

the year in the tournament.

All-Conference: Hannah McDonald

Honorable Mention: Shelby Klaassen

Both the JV and Varsity teams won

the Sportsmanship Award for the TIC

Conference. Great job, ladies!

The Varsity Soccer had a great year of

hard played games. Seniors Austin Van

Staalduinen, Jesse Hubers, and Blake

Gelderman will be missed next year.

All-Conference: David Striblin, Austin

Van Staalduinen

“Changed Hearts to Change His World” Students returned to Terra Ceia Chris-

tian this year to a theme that we hope

will define us through May—”Changed

Hearts to Change His World.”

The theme comes to us from Ezekiel

36:26 and Ephesians 3:16-17. Ezekiel is

sent to Israel to say, “I will give you a

new heart and put a new spirit in you; I

will remove from you your heart of

stone and give you a heart of flesh.”

From this we can see that it is God’s

desire to change our hearts so that we

can live. A heart of stone will not allow

us to live the life he desires for us.

The passage from Ephesians finds Paul

praying for the church in Ephesus, “I

pray that out of His glorious riches He

may strengthen you with power

through His Spirit in your inner be-

ing, so that Christ may dwell in your

hearts through faith.” Here we find

that our hearts must be changed so

that Christ can dwell within us.

I found it interesting in the Ezekiel pas-

sage that God always has a bigger

plan. Throughout the verses before

and after verse 26, God inspires Ezekiel

to repeat over and over the phrase,

“For the sake of the nations around

you.” God’s plan is to change hearts so

that He can change His world.

If you are interested in watching the

opening day chapel, please visit

terraceia.wordpress.com. Please pray

for us as we seek changed hearts and a

changed world for Him.

Mr. Jon Postma, Principal

New School Van Travels New Route

Ladies Auxiliary Fall Auction Each year the Ladies Auxiliary holds a Fall Auction to raise funds for Terra Ceia Christian. These funds are given to class-room and teacher needs above the budgeted amounts.

In the past, this money has gone for math supplies, vacuums, interactive projectors, text-books, and computers. This year close to $19,000 was raised. While down a bit from previous years, we are so thankful for the money raised during a year of poor crop yields, a hurricane, and a sluggish economy.

The BBQ Dinner for Tuition Help before the auction raised about $1300. Praise God for His con-tinued blessings.

Thank you to all those who responded to our letter at the end of last year regarding our need to purchase a bus or van for the school. Because of your generosity, Terra Ceia Christian now has a new school van. Already painted green, it is a 2004 Chevy with 70,000 miles. It is primarily being used within 15 miles of the school, freeing up our busses to run longer, direct routes in Beaufort, Washington, and Hyde counties. We hope it will serve our stu-dents for many years to come. Terra Ceia Christian continues to provide transportation as an in-cluded part of our overall cost. No student pays ex-tra to be bussed to school.

The Student Leadership of Terra Ceia Christian split up to the ele-mentary classrooms to assist the students in painting pumpkins. Can you find Jonah and the whale, Bob the Tomato, Papa Smurf, Shadow the Rabbit, Patrick Star, a cute mouse, and a fish eating shark?

Pumpkin Painting Fun!

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Pastor Appreciation Day

Terra Ceia Christian hosted eighteen pastors on November 10. They enjoyed a meal together and students had an opportunity to bless their pastors with prayers and words of encourage-ment during our all-school chapel.

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