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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!
4428 Christian School Road
Pantego, NC 27860
252.943.2485 ph
252.944.0458 fax
info@tccschool.com
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.
Terra Ceia Christian School
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