The SCHE Board would like to invite everyone to our ‘09-’10 kick-off event. Some families have already begun their school year and some are gathering their materials in anticipation. We are excited and are looking forward to a great year and hope that you are also.
Training and educating our children is both a blessing and a responsibility. As the board has looked over activities for the new year we have felt a need to encourage each other to focus on a goal of equipping our students with God’s Truth, enabling them to know and fulfill God’s purpose in and through their lives. Knowing God’s truth brings about a transformation in character and the ability to discern and apply truth in the world (Romans 12:1, 2).
God has entrusted parents with the responsibility of education (Deuteronomy 6:4-7). We pray that each of us, as parents, would see the need to immerse our children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, helping them to steadily grow in wisdom, and in stature and in favor with God and man (Ephesians 6:4; Luke 2:52). Also, that our young people would be academically equipped to do whatever God has prepared for them to do to accomplish His purpose in His kingdom (Ephesians 2:10). We pray that as parents and educators God would help us to fulfill this process spiritually, academically and socially.
SCHE Board Members: Mike and Rachel Allen, Sammy and Jo Lynn Burns, David and Marilyn Easley, Tom and Carrie Jackson, Keith and Sheila Jeffries
SCHE Kick-off Event Details & Announcements
Date: Saturday, August 22nd
Time: 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Location: First United Methodist Church, Starkville (use side entrance on Lampkin Street)
Starting at 3:00 you will be able to turn in your registration forms (download here) and dues, sign up for various activities, and enjoy MSU Ice Cream and great fellowship. A short meeting will begin around 4:00. If the weather permits, the children will be able to enjoy the enclosed playground at the church with supervision provided.
Membership Forms: To have an opportunity to read and fill out the SCHE Membership Guidelines and the Information Form before the kick-off, please download them here (pdf format). Extra forms will also be available at the kick-off. Door prizes will be given out at the kick-off!! To be eligible, you must have your forms and your dues either mailed in and received before the kick-off or turned in at the kick-off. You must be present to win! Prizes will include ~ Harvey’s Gift Certificate, Electric Pencil Sharpener, free SCHE membership, plus others!
Announcements: If you have an announcement that you would like to have made, please contact SCHE by Monday, August 17th. We will both read the announcements and have them typed up and ready for you to take home and to send to those who did not make it to the kick-off.
Sign-up Sheets: If you have an activity that you would like to promote, have sign up sheets for, or just to gauge interest, please let us know and we will have table space available for you. Please try to have a poster for your activity so that as people walk by your table they will know what you are promoting.
Used Books: If you have used books that you would like to sale, we will have tables set up for that also.
Cleet Exchange: Please bring any cleets that your children may have outgrown to share with others who need them for football. There will be an area in the Used Book Section for this.
Enrollment Cards: They are to be filled out and turned into the attendance officer in your county by Sept. 15th along with a “simple description of your home instruction plan.” If you have already picked up your Certificate of Enrollment from your Attendance Officer, please be aware that there is a new statement that has been added. “The Mississippi Department of Education has permission to provide a copy of this certificate to the local school district upon request” followed by circling a YES or NO and then a signature of the Parent, Guardian, or Custodian and the date it was signed. MHEA is checking with HSLDA to see if this is legal to have on the card since it is not one of the items that is listed within the law. We would strongly counsel you to circle NO to this. For those in Oktibbeha, Debra Judon, the attendance officer, gave the following info for connecting with her to get your card. Best times: Monday & Friday — 8:00 am – 4:00 pm and Tuesday, Wednesday — 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm. Her email address: djudon <at> mde.k.12.ms.us (please substitute <at> with @ when sending).
Sports: Flag football, Soccer and Volleyball will begin on Monday, August 31st at 4:30 on the side lawn of the MSU Vet School. Sign-up sheets will be available at the kick-off and at the field on the first Monday.
Posted on August 18th, 2009 by admin
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