My grandmother recently gave me a book called Gospel Reset, by Ken Ham. After read-ing it, I felt compelled to write about the importance of Christian education, from my perspective. Before I started attending parochial school, I attended a public elementary school. During these public school years, I attended church and Sunday school every Sunday and my mother read devotions with us almost every night. I think it is fair to say that I was raised in a devout Christian home and given the typical educational resources to nurture and sustain my faith. One day I brought home a book from school. This book was a child’s version of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, aka the Jehovah’s Witness Bible, given to me by a friend. I believe I read this book without my parents’ knowledge for about a week before they found out and had me return the book to my friend. This is just one example of how susceptible young peo-ple are to conformity, appeasement,

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misdirection, peer influence, etc, and de-spite my typical Christian upbringing, my salvation could have been jeopardized. The main focus of Ken Ham’s book is reaching the younger generations and making the Bible relevant to them. As I read this, I found myself feeling like an “inadequate Christian” for my lack of ac-tive ministry. While there are always op-portunities to educate or invite commu-nity members, I find that it is for the most part, inopportune. However, within this focus Ham also emphasizes the importance of proper education, which is the means of building a solid foundation. This includes going to God’s word for truth and recognizing His truth as absolute--- not to be compromised by new age thought and political correct-ness. In other words, unchanging. After thinking hard about how I could do my part, I realized something. I am responsible for the up-bringing and spiri-tual welfare of my two boys, and in consequence, maybe the generations thereafter. That’s significant! My most important job is to make sure my sons grow up knowing Jesus Christ’s promise of salvation and to ensure they are provided with the tools to protect their faith, not just now, but throughout their entire life. That is why Christian education is so important. Sunday school is not enough. Our youth need constant interaction with God’s Word and a thorough understand-ing of how to apply it and defend it. They need guidance on recognizing falsehoods and maintaining the truth. Ken Ham states that 90-95% of church-going youth attend public schools where they are taught anti-Christian beliefs as fact (evolution, big bang, million years, etc..), and a majority of them fail to rec-

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ognize actual sin. So the fear is no longer as improbable as bringing home a friend’s book of false doctrine. Anti-Christian be-liefs are being taught in nearly every cor-ner of the public school system, a system where Christ is not welcome. But there is hope. Christian education can be your defense. The strongest ministry we can do might just be right here, starting with our youth. And everyone can help, whether through enrollment in, financial aid for, or promotion of our local Christian schools. In closing, while success and achieve-ment are important (and you will cer-tainly find that at Martin Luther as well), they are not the most important thing. The most important thing is and always will be Christ. You may have heard the saying, “If you don’t teach your children the right way, the world will teach them the wrong way.” Well, it’s absolutely true. Our society is desensitizing us to sin and our ability to recognize it. I often joke that my sons’ teachers help raise my children. But it is not a joke; it is fact. They help keep Christ the center of their life when my husband and I are absent, ensuring a strong foundation in Jesus. A foundation that will last a lifetime. Therefore, I urge you, please let Christian education be the curb that keeps your child on track during these pivotal structuring ages. Sincerely, Jennifer (Morris) Luhmann 2003 MLHS Alumni *Jordan Luhmann is a 2003 MLHS Alumni also and their son Wyatt is enrolled in the MLHS Class of 2023

JUNE 2019

Jennifer and Jordan Luhmann (both MLHS alum) and their sons, Jackson, and Wyatt.

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The making of Fish, Flora, and Fauna—

In January 2018 members of The Schmeeckle Foundation helped us launch the project by granting us $20,000. Now it was our duty to raise the remaining funds necessary to reach

our goal of $100,000.

Groundbreaking July 3, 2018. Principal Paul Steinhaus, Joel Oberdieck, Nate

Watt, Jeffrey Bolen, Brian Rosburg, and Shirley Maschoff.

3M Eco Grant program provided $22,500 in funding support.

In August Paul Steinhaus, Kevin Behrens and Isaac Johnson installed the

plumbing.

Early September was a flurry of activity as “all hands were on deck” to get the structure

built. Isaac Johnson and Caleb Roiger learn the logistics of installing the foam insulation.

St James Electric and Terra Therm of Rochester quickly came in and installed

the geothermal heating system.

Next the experts from Martin County Ready Mix poured the concrete while

students watched.

Rich Wolf, volunteer project manager, is a great leader sharing his skills in coordinating all that is needed.

One sunny afternoon in early September students were excited to put up the first wall.

Even though the school sits surrounded by corn and soybean fields, our past Science program has been limited by four walls and the lack of revenue. Adding a greenhouse and a shop has been a multi-decade desire of many. Since 2004, MLHS has tried to add a greenhouse and shop to our building. Parents, students, and donors have requested that more agriculturally driven course offerings be added to our curriculum. In 2014 we were given a sizable donation by a retired farmer who designated the gift for this type of project. Things seemed to “come together” as we now have the teachers with the desire, skills, and passion to make this project happen. The Board of Directors au-thorized the administration to pursue the additional funding needed ($100,000 total) . Finally we have the resources to honor that initial gift. Science teachers Nate Watt and Paul Steinhaus have the "outside the box thinking" needed for this type of innovation. They spent many hours studying the aquaponic growing systems, visiting other growing systems, collaborating with experts, and planning our system to be unique and self-sustaining. This project will allow our students to be creative thinkers via concepts that are new and cutting-edge. The shop area will contain area for experimenting with alternative fuel sources such as alcohol, electricity, bio-mass, and biodiesel. Passive solar lighting will be used on both sides of our facility. This innovative, hands-on endeavor is providing exciting learning opportunities for MLHS students and adults. It puts math, physics and science to work into real life practices. When the greenhouse is finished, students will raise plants and vegetables fed by an aquaponic system raising fish. The entire system is heated by geothermal, passive solar, and biomass. Students will make their own ethanol in the energy classroom. With God in control, many things have come together to make this dream become a reality, illustrating that all good things come to those who wait on the lord.

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Aquaponic Greenhouse & Energy Classroom

Students used class time and after-hours to continue the build. L-R:Dylan Stevens, Rich Wolf, Trevor Rosburg, Caleb Roiger

and Alexys Flohrs built the walls.

On September 11 at about 5:00 p.m. the winds blew, the rain fell, and tornadoes hit

the area. Even though the walls all came tumbling down and we can be broken, God

sends His Promise Message.

THANK YOU TO THESE BUSINESSES FOR SUPPORTING OUR PROJECT Schmeeckle Foundation--$20,000 Grant 3M Foundation--$22,500 Eco Grant

Cargill Cares--$10,000+$5,000 Corporate Match Minnesota Independent School Forum-$7,500 Chevy Drive for Education Contest-$2,500 The Allen C. Berndt Foundation-$2,000

Fox Lake Conservation League-$1,000 Anonymous business in Mankato-$1,000 Federated REA-$1,000 Compeer-$700 +$120 Gift Match Basin Electric Power Cooperative-$500 Crystal Valley Coop-$500

Land O’Lakes Foundation-$500 POET Biorefineries-$250 Crop Production Services-$50

BoeKett Building Supply of Fairmont, St. James Electric, and Terra Therm of New Richland have given an

additional $9,739 in corporate underwriting—reducing our expenses. Thank you to Rich Wolf, our volunteer project coordinator. His expertise and help is invaluable.

Thank you to Lonny and Jeanne Schwieger of HenWay Manufacturing for their generosity in loaning us the use of their equipment.

Thank you to all other volunteers and donors. Soli deo Gloria

Later in September Alexys Flohrs and Trevor Rosburg work together to build the

supporting walls. .

Shawna Appel, Autumn Fischer, Mitchell Prafke, and Will Wallace move lumber to

the site.

Parents, students, alumni and volunteers teamed up to set the rafters on a Saturday afternoon in October. Caleb Roiger ran equipment provided by HenWay Manufacturing.

At right Emily (Wiederhoeft) Meixell, 2002 Alumnus, was instrumental in securing $15,000 from the Cargill Cares Grant Program. She came back to MLHS and presented Principal Steinhaus with the check.

Winter hit us early and the project came to a

halt. Work has resumed this spring with painting of all the wood to pro-tect it from moisture.

Soon the roof and siding will be put on the 32'x36'

structure and the growing can begin!

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Future Leaders of the U.S.A.

Welcoming the Class of 2023

We give thanks to God for the fourteen students who are enrolled to be in the MLHS Class of 2023.

Pictured at top left from St Paul, Fair-mont and all wearing their MLHS sweat-shirts: Front (L-R): Laurel Holtz, Jacob Taylor, Emily Engelby, Anna Schultz, Ash-ley Engelby. Back: Hannah Bergt, Jonah Hackett, and Jakob Fischer.

Pictured below left from St Paul’s, Truman: Zachariah Flohrs receives his MLHS sweatshirt from Principal Steinhaus.

Above right 8th graders from St. James, Northrop hold up their enrollment gift from Principal Steinhaus. L-R: Heath Rossow, Wyatt Luhmann, Lance Stevens, and Sutton Bohlsen.

Bottom Right: Carter Sailor from Lake Crystal/Wellcome Memorial wears his Knight’s shirt while standing next to the MLHS Knights Mascot.

Enrollment is still open the 2019-2020 school year. Call 507-436-5249 for more information.

Left: The Senior Class met with Representative Jim Hagedorn (far right) at the Nation’s Capital during their Class Trip to Wash-ington, D.C. Right: This spring the en-tire Junior Class visited various local government agencies and learned how they operate. They are pictured on the court-house steps with some juniors from other schools who also participated in Local Government Day.

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Music Program Makes Changes

Evan Mills joined the MLHS team in 2017. A graduate of Concordia University, Irvine, CA, he was new to teaching but brought his wide-range of musical talent, hard work ethics and great attention to detail with him. While he was here Evan jumped right into the MLHS Ministry. He played his classical guitar at the OH! What a KNIGHT! Dinner Auction, serving and serenading VIP guests. His music students partici-pated in MSHSL competitions and garnered many high ratings. He helped expand and improve the Lutheran Schools Fine Arts and Science Festival. Under his direction, the MLHS musicians performed at area nursing homes and association congregations. He partnered with Michael Kutch in the per-formances of the St Paul, Fairmont Hand Bells. During his time here, the music students presented Christmas, Sacred, and Spring Pops Concerts. His final concert was entitled “Movies and Musicals” and the MLHS choir and band and elementary band gave exceptional performances. (photos above) Evan has chosen to go back to California to enjoy milder winters and to further his education. We thank him for his time at, and his devotion to, the MLHS Ministry.

Mrs. Lisa Carnehl will be teaching elementary band and high school band and choir this fall. We give thanks to God for answering our prayers through her. She brings “All In” devotion to God’s Ministry and is blessed with musical talent. She was born and raised in Columbia, Missouri. She attended Concordia University Chicago, where she studied secondary education and met her husband, Pastor Adam Carnehl. Adam and Lisa married at the end of college and moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where Lisa completed her student teaching at Lutheran High School North. For four years, Adam attended Concordia Seminary, during which time Lisa taught 6-8th grades at Salem Lutheran School in Affton. Upon completion of the Seminary, the Carnehls moved to Glasgow, Scotland, where Lisa completed a Master of Education at the University of Glasgow. In 2017, the Carnehls bid farewell to bonnie Scotland and moved to Fairmont after Adam accepted a call to be the associate pastor at Im-manuel Lutheran Church. Lisa spent one year teaching at Fairmont Elementary School before

taking a year off to raise their daughter, Gwen. Lisa is thrilled to be joining the staff at Martin Luther as the music director. Lisa began exploring her passion for music from an early age, participating in Columbia's city children's choir as a child and joining band in 6th grade. Lisa participated in both band and choir throughout her entire education, including participation in district and state bands.She also began playing her oboe for churches and weddings beginning in high school, in addition to joining the drumline for marching band. Lisa entered Concordia Uni-versity Chicago on a music scholarship, and was the section leader for the Wind Ensemble for the duration of her time there. She was also invited to play with The Symphony of Oak Park and River Forest, as well as participating in Concordia's Symphonic Orches-tra. Her experience in leadership roles in music ensembles as well as multiple solo performances taught Lisa valuable lessons of the importance of music, and she thanks God every day for the opportunities to praise Him with joyful noises! Lisa hopes to teach students at MLHS about the gifts God has given them through music. While this will be the first time Lisa has been a music teacher, she brings with her teaching experience a life-long passion for choir and band and an understanding that music is both a gift from God and a means for us to praise Him. She is excited to share her passion for music with the students and to hear them lift their voices and instruments to the Lord!

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To God be the Glory

The MLHS student body celebrated with two MLHS Seniors as they signed their NJCAA Letter of Intent and Scholarship Agreement with Rochester Community and Technical College to play baseball with the Yellow Jackets. Pictured above left: Kevin Prafke, Kristi Prafke, Mitchell Prafke, Tom Taylor-MLHS Athletic Director and Scott Chirpich-Jaguars Baseball Coach. Above right: Scott Gravlin, Paxton Gravlin, Tom Taylor-MLHS Athletic Director and Scott Chirpich-Jaguars Baseball Coach. We thank God for giving these young men the opportunity to enjoy their athletic talents as they pursue their life careers.

Carol and Daryl Bartz received the 2019 Martin Luther Award at the 34th Baccalaureate & Commencement Service from Principal Paul Steinhaus. The couple was recognized for their faithful support of MLHS in so many ways. Their prayers, volunteerism, dedication to the ministry, vocal encouragement and gifts have been in-strumental in the ongoing pursuit of excellence at MLHS.

Dianna Mosloski and Pauline Bergt received the 5:16 Servant Award at the Graduation Ceremony. Dianna was honored for enthusiastic help with the lunch program and other “go-fer” jobs at MLHS. Pauline was com-mended for her devoted tutoring skills helping students learn and succeed.

At right The Johnson family celebrates their last graduate. Brent, Madison (2018), Anika (2014), Isaac (2019) and Heidi. We thank them for their commitment to Christian education and for sharing their children with all of us at MLHS.

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2019 MLHS Hall of Fame Inductee

“Erica Reinke, now Erica Wieting, was a standout athlete for MLHS during the 2005 – 2008 school years. She was a two season athlete participating in volleyball and basketball. “Recently, our head volleyball coach, Paul Steinhaus, com-piled a list of all time leaders in volleyball statistics. Out of sixteen categories which consist of serving percentage, aces, kills, digs, assists, blocks, points and sets for both a career and a single season, Erica is in the top eleven in nine of them. She is ranked third for aces in a single season with 47, third for career kills with 566, and third in total points scored in a sin-gle season with 379. In 2007, Erica’s senior season, oppo-nents knew that they weren’t going to return the ball when Erica was in the front row. During that season she had 280 kills; a single season record that still stands today. Erica was named All-Conference in volleyball her junior and senior sea-sons, as well as All-Area her senior season. “In basketball, Erica was equally dominant. She was a four season letter winner. She was voted the most improved player her freshman year. She was a team captain her junior and senior years and was voted All-Conference her sopho-more through senior seasons. She was named to the Sentinel All-Area Team her senior year and, in addition, Erica was also the first Martin Luther High School student to be named an honorable mention to the Class A All-State Girls Basketball Team by the Minnesota State Girls Basketball Coaches Asso-ciation. As a sophomore Erica was filmed and named KEYC-TV Channel 12 Prep Athlete of the Week. During Erica’s senior season, she racked up 565 points with a 71% free throw per-centage. She had 206 rebounds, 64 assists, 43 blocked shots and 108 steals. “Her name is on the MLHS 1,000 point plaque, where she

still holds the school record for the most points scored at MLHS with 1878 points, as well as our 800 rebounds plaque. She is in a class by herself being the only player to record over 900 rebounds. She finished her high school career with 933 rebounds, also a school record. “Besides excelling in sports, she also did well with academics and the fine arts. Her senior year she won the AAA Award, the National Scholar Athlete Award, and the Wendy’s Heisman Award, which is an award that specifically honors the nation’s most remarkable high school seniors who go above and beyond the field, in the classroom, and in their communities.” -Tom Taylor, MLHS Athletic Director “LIFE LESSONS FROM MY HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS AND ACADEMICS. Earlier this week, I found myself back at my high school. I had the opportunity to think back on my time there and some of the big things I learned, while I was there, through sports and academics. I am thankful that my time at Martin Luther High School wasn't easy....but it was fun! “The early morning workouts, homework on the bus on the way to games, nights of staying home to study or rest instead of going to parties, practices and sum-mer conditioning all taught me the value and joy of struggling through hard things! The many missed layups and other failures taught me to continue through fail-ures and learn from them. “I learned that you accomplish a whole lot more with a team! I often take for granted how much my team and classmates kept me going and motivated and hav-ing fun over the years! I am thankful I got to learn these things at my Lutheran high school where I was often reminded to do all things for the glory of God and not man....this has had a big impact on me through college and life. Mostly, I am thankful for being grounded in the Gospel while at Martin Luther and constantly reminded that my worth, and your worth, is not based on our actions, accomplishments, and records broken, but rather on Christ's actions--His perfect life and death on our behalf to save us from sin, death and the devil! Thanks be to God!” -Erica Reinke Wieting, 2008 Alumnus

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Benjamin and Erica Wieting and two of their three children at-tended the 2091 Recognition Awards Night along with Erica’s

parents, Leonard and Barb Reinke.

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37th Academic Year 2019-2020

The Virginia and Martin Krause Scholarship Fund awarded $10,000 to students attending Martin Luther High School for the 2019-2020 school year. Front row: Emily Sokoloski, Marah Engel, Wyatt Luhmann, Sutton Bohlsen, Zach Flohrs, Jacob Taylor, Mariah Geistfeld. Second row: Trevor Rosburg, Lance Stevens, Alexys Flohrs, Anna Schultz and Caleb Schultz. This scholarship fund was created to reward students who have exhibited a strong desire to be successful academically, as well as exemplifying a strong commitment to the community through service and involvement in extracurricular activities. Winners are selected by an advisory committee based on criteria apart from their GPA. Established through the Mankato Area Foundation, the goal is to help current students enrolled at MLHS but also to attract new students who may not be able to attend without financial assistance. "We were proud that this school is still here after 34+ years--and want it to be here for decades to come." says Martin Krause. He also expressed the desire for more people to follow his example. "Virginia and I hope others will consider a charitable contribution to Martin Luther through scholarships. It's a wonderful legacy to leave for our next generation. Our goal was for this scholarship fund to last into perpetuity and anyone who would like to join us is welcome." This scholarship is renewable on an annual basis and everyone is welcome to apply.

Caleb Schultz and Emma Bolen received the 5:16 Varsity Letter Service Award. Students must complete 100 hours of service in the com-munity, complete an essay, present a record of documentation, and provide two letters of rec-ommendation from the organizations they served.

Principal Paul Steinhaus presented Bennett Shane with the Principal’s leader-ship Award. Bennett was President of the Student Council this past year. As a sophomore, he attended the National Leadership Conference. Bennett also received a $500 scholar-ship from the Allen C. Berndt Foundation. Ben-nett will attend Concordia University in Nebraska. He is considering a career in pre-seminary studies, teaching or law. He will also be involved in choir, drama and book club. Concordia University, NE has awarded him $80,000 in scholarships over the next four years, $2,500 from the CUNE annual music pro-gram for 4-5 years, $500 from the Lutheran Heritage Fund. For his involvement in the blood drives, he received a $250 American Red Cross scholarship. Bennett also received other academic and Fine Arts awards.

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All In for God’s Glory

Lydia Steinhaus was one of 40 Minnesota Fed-erated Rural Electric writing contest winners. She won a trip to Washington, D.C. where she will meet members of Congress, tour ten monuments and five historic sites and other special events. She also qualifies to serve on the 2020 Youth Leadership Council and attend the National REA Convention in Florida. Lydia also won the MN ExCEL award. This award goes to high school juniors who are ac-tive in school, show leadership and volunteer in their community.

Velma Schall presented awards and scholarships on behalf the Fairmont and Lewisville American Legion posts. She recognized Lydia Steinhaus, winner of the Girl's State Experience chosen by the Lewisville American Legion. She presented Isaac Johnson and Sierra Geistfeld with $500 schol-arships awarded by the Lewisville American Legion, and Anna Schulte with a $1,000 scholarship from the Fairmont American Legion Post.

Bennett Shane, Sierra Geistfeld and Will Wallace were featured on KEYC-TV, Channel 12, “Best of the Class.”

MLHS Trap Shooters competed at the State Championship in Alexandria. Out of the 14 members on the team these shooters qualified. L-R: Carter Sailor (grade 8), Coach Reed Wokasch (2005) , Madisen Wildfeuer (2019), Isaac John-son (2019), and William Wallace (2019). “Madie, Isaac and Will have been on the team since we began and we are sorry to see them graduate. They been fun to work with. We have quite a few young shooters coming up so I am looking to helping develop their skills to compete at State.” said coach Reed Wokasch.

Class of 2019 — All In: Loving the Lord

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Shawna Appel Class Secretary

Brad & Kim Appel Meteorology

Iowa State University, Ames

Graduating with High Honors

Dalton Fette Kevin & Lori Behrens

Jeff & Sarah Fette Nursing

Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato

Army National Guard Graduating with Honors National Honor Society

Sierra Geistfeld Class President Class Speaker

Bruce & Christine Geistfeld Undecided

Graduating with High Honors

National Honor Society

Paxton Gravlin Class Treasurer

Scott & Lisa Gravlin Accounting

Rochester Community & Technical College

Graduating with Honors National Honor Society

Austin Berkland Virgil & Judy Berkland Working in agriculture

South Dakota

Autumn Fischer Jared & Angie Fischer

Nursing Iowa Central

Community College, Fort Dodge

Graduating with High Honors

National Honor Society

Isaac Johnson Brent & Heidi Johnson

Basic Training Air National Guard

Carpentry Alexandria Technical

College Graduating with Honors

Mitchell Prafke Kevin Prafke Kristi Prafke

Auto Mechanics Rochester Community &

Technical College Graduating with Honors

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with Heart, Soul, Mind & Strength

Anna Schulte Shawn Hartung

Vicki Schulte Psychology & Music

Minnesota State University, Mankato

Graduating with Honors

Bennett Shane Student Body President

Class Speaker Scott & Brenda Shane

Nicole Kepler Law or Ministry

Concordia University, Nebraska

Graduating with High Honors

National Honor Society

Colin Trueblood Class Vice-President

Robert & Lisa Trueblood Education & EMT

Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato

Graduating with Honors

William Wallace James Wallace Holly Wallace

Agronomy South Dakota State

University, Brookings Graduating with

High Honors

Madisen Wildfeuer Jen Wildfeuer

Delly & Ricci Wildfeuer Equine Animal Science

University of Minnesota, Crookston

Graduating with Honors National Honor Society

Class Verse

Don’t let anyone look down on you

because you are young, but set an example for

believers in speech, in conduct,

in love, in faith

and in purity. –1 Timothy 4:12

Class Flower Gerber Daisy

Class Colors

Teal & Purple

These thirteen graduates

received $298,500 in college scholarships. Collectively they also earned

179 Post-Secondary Educational Option Credits that will be applied to their college

transcripts.

All of them were named to the 2018-2019

MLHS Spring Semester Honor Roll

Eight participated in Athletics Eleven participated in Music

Ten performed in Drama Six participated in Year Book

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Watch for a new bill-board coming on North

State Street in Fairmont in July!

The Allen C. Berndt Foundation awarded MLHS $1,000 to purchase advertising space. The purpose of the grant is to support efforts that spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ through quality Christian edu-cation. We thank LaMar Advertising for discounting our service costs to help us qualify for this grant award.

This is Most Certainly Brew Gourmet Coffee can be purchased in person at: Northrop, MN Martin Luther High School St James Lutheran Church Office Blue Earth, MN Breen's True Value Hardware Fairmont, MN Fairmont Chiropractic & Acupuncture Good News Bookstore HyVee Food Store St Paul Lutheran Church Office Madelia, MN Sunshine Foods Rural St James, MN St John's Lutheran Church, South Branch Office Truman, MN St Paul's Lutheran Church Office What’s in your cup? Thank you for drinking “This is Most Certainly Brew!”

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1:00 p.m. Shot gun start. Two-person, best ball. $60/golfer, includes 18 holes, shared cart, dinner and prizes. Register in advance.

Help us raise $5,000 to provide scholarships for elementary students to take band lessons.

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“MLHS means so much to me and God has been good to me. I’ve been blessed financially and want to help the school out. MLHS is more than a school – It is a community that inspires students to think critically, where they are surrounded by caring teachers

and staff, and have the word of God incorporated into their daily activities. These character traits are grossly missing in most of our country today. A short four year investment at MLHS will

pay dividends for the rest of the student’s life. This campaign is intended to help make this possible for more families.”

-former parent and $5,000 Challenge Match Donor

Principal Paul’s Point

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Incorporated Religion i have heard countless times that religion and reality are not necessarily compatible and that they do not have to be. Individuals making these statements generally con-sider religion a set of guidelines to live by and to treat people nicely, but not as a guide to history, money, or science. In large part, that is why America, in its push for political correctness, is not concerned with religions that make no claims on history, money, or science; BUT Christianity creates a real problem because it DOES make VERY specific claims to history, money, and science. Therefore, some religions are “welcomed” into

the political arena/classroom, but Christianity creates friction. The claims Christianity makes are, for the most part, contradictory to what shows up in the textbooks in America’s classrooms. This creates an environment in which five days a week students get a story that is largely inconsistent with the “story” they get on Sunday mornings. To make matters more complicated, as far as our youth are concerned, Sunday mornings are not designed to take the time to affectively teach the differences in these worldviews of history, money, and science. This generates an even greater chasm be-tween “real” history, money, and science compared to Biblical history, money, and science, i.e. climate change, millions/billions of years, look out for #1, survival of the fittest, fossils, global flood, radioactive dating, origins of the moon, aliens, common ancestry, the missing link, on and on. This crossroads comes to roost in America’s Christian youth. They are being brought up in this dichot-omy. How are these young people, with limited experience and not fully capable of rational thinking, sup-posed to sift this information, especially if they are given only one side of the politically correct agenda? Should they just incorporate all these secular “facts” into the Bible? The secular facts clearly stand in op-position to the plain and simple reading of the Bible. Kids are not dumb and they see this incompatibility. The result: they leave the church in large numbers. Or they will completely compromise the inerrancy of Scripture. Is there any wonder we see declining numbers? This is not merely in Millennials, or Xers, or Boomers, or whatevers. The church has not combated the culture’s attack (Satan’s attack) affectively. Here is where the Lutheran church, starting with Martin Luther himself, embarked on the idea of schools teaching the Biblical worldview everyday in every class. Before this sounds like Lutherans have it all figured out, we have a functional answer, but it is way under-utilized. Jesus has all the answers that combat the culture. His answers are better. They are consistent. They make sense. They are perfectly mutualistic with everything else. My goodness, it is surprising how creative the culture needs to be in order to make their ideas have the depth to be mutualistic. Just Google (not during the sermon) “the formation of the moon” to see what is being taught independent of Jesus. Every theory of the moon’s origin will have ma-jor impact on a number of other major origin ideas. These theories are far from seamless/mutualistic. Is this what you want your kids to know as the truth? We have the great benefit/blessing of being in an area that has some fantastic Christian schools teaching the Truth that integrates, permeates, and penetrates our lives to our eternal benefit via Love as defined in the Cross. We provide the facts that make faith fit, not fiction. Take advantage of this blessing. Share this blessing. Help someone else see the benefits in this blessing. Continue to make these ministries blessings for a long time to come. Come Lord Jesus, Amen! Paul Steinhaus, Principal

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Full Member Churches: Immanuel Lutheran, Fairmont Salem Lutheran, Madelia St. James Lutheran, Northrop St. John’s Lutheran, Rapidan St. John’s Lutheran, South Branch St. John’s Lutheran, Willow Creek St. Paul’s Lutheran, Fairmont St. Paul’s Lutheran, Truman St. Paul’s Lutheran, Wilbert Trinity Lutheran, Fieldon Zion Lutheran, Fraser Associate Member Churches: Immanuel Lutheran, Galena Our Saviors Lutheran, Winnebago St. John’s Lutheran, Antrim St. John’s Lutheran, Good Thunder Trinity Lutheran, Lake Crystal Trinity Lutheran, Trimont Zion Lutheran, Lewisville All member congregations are commit-ted to providing spiritual support. Con-gregations are represented by dele-gates which comprise the governing body. All members are to encourage student enrollment and promote MLHS as an extension of their congregational ministry. Full Member support is 6% of annual budget in monthly payments from the congregational treasury. (4% for con-gregations with elementary schools.)

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FAIRMONT, MN 56031

PERMIT NO. 290

Upcoming Events at MLHS July 12 Suds & Spirits Sampling at The Depot in Hands Park 7:30 pm August 6 Final Registration 3-6 pm August 12 Final Registration 10 am-2pm August 25 Back-to-School Picnic 3 pm August 26 First Day of 2019-2020 school year September 21 Mission Possible Benefit Knight Dinner 5 pm October 17-19 Fall Rummage & Bake Sale October 23 7th & 8th Grade Step UP Day October 28 Grandparents Day & NHS Induction Nov 1 & 2 Drama Production at Fairmont Opera House 7 pm Nov 4 Red Cross Blood Drive Dec 1 MLHS Sunday in Association Churches Dec 7 Christmas Concert at Fairmont Opera House 7 pm Jan 18 Generation to Generation Antique Auction 9:15 am Feb 28 5th & 6th Grade Step UP Day March 14 Fine Arts & Science Festival March 15 Soup & Sandwich Luncheon for STA 11am-1pm April 2-3-4 Spring Rummage & Bake Sale April 18 Oh! What a KNIGHT Dinner Auction 4:30 pm April 27 Red Cross Blood Drive May 16 Spring POPS Concert 7 pm May 24 2020 Graduation and Commencement 2 pm

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