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Tuesday Bulletin – March 17, 2015
“ A nd wha te ve r y ou do, do i t h e a r ti l y a s t o
th e L or d a n d n ot t o m e n, k n ow i n g t ha t fr om
th e L or d y ou wi l l r e c e i ve th e r e wa r d o f t he
i n he r i ta nc e ; f or y ou s e r v e t he l or d C hr i s t. ”
(C ol . 3 : 2 3 - 2 4 )
Calendar
Mar
ACSI Piano Festival
27
ACSI Math Olympics at CCA
27
Apr
Fundraising
20
th
Spring Program: 30 Anniversary
rd
27
End of 3 Qtr
31
Report cards
2
Half Day & Corporation Mtg. at 12:00
Scrip
Order forms were sent home last week for the
March order, due this Friday, 3/20.
Events
3-10
Easter Break
CCA’s 30th Celebration & Spring Program
15-18
Desert Explorers (6-8)
All CCA families and friends—past and
present—are invited to this event on Friday, 3/27—
dinner at 5:30, and program at 7:00. This is a
great opportunity to invite prospective families to
get to know us.
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27-29
OC Fair Imaginology (formerly Youth Expo)
Standardized Testing
February
Character Trait: Diligence
Hymn: “I’ve Found the Pearl of Greatest Price”
Book Report: Historical Fiction (6-8);
Biography (K-2, 3-5)
Campus & Classroom
Enrollment for 2015-2016
Thanks for sending in your family’s letter of
intent for next year. Fall registration forms are being
sent home this week; there is a registration
discount for both new and returning students who
register by Tues, 3/31.
A sign-up sheet with additional information is
attached. Read carefully for information about setup, clean-up, after-school childcare, and cupcakes!
Please return the form by this Friday, 3/20, since
the big event is less than two weeks away!
Volunteers
ACSI Elementary Speech Meet
End of 3rd Quarter
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Friday, 3/27, is the last day of the 3 Quarter,
but it is not a half day! Due to the events of that
evening, our traditional end-of-quarter half day was
moved to Thursday, 4/2, the start of Easter Break.
Annual Corporation Meeting
This year’s CCA Corporation meeting will be
held Thursday, 4/2, at noon (it’s a half day). This
is an important business and information meeting
that includes reviewing the
budget and election of
officers. Membership forms
are attached; please return
to the school office.
Winners at the CCA event (listed last week)
should continue to practice for the ACSI event on
5/8. It will take place from 8:00 to 11:30 in Aliso
Viejo. We’re sending 16 students, so we need 4
judges and several drivers. Note that parents may
not serve as judges in the room where their child is
competing. Please let the office know as soon as
possible if you are willing to help.
Prayer & Praise
Moms in Prayer
The ladies meet Tuesdays, from 2:00-3:00 PM.
Family of the week: Pray for the Pham Family—
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Duy and Mandy, and their daughter Divina (4
grade).
Pray for friends of CCA:
 Mr. Kennard’s struggle with multiple system
atrophy.
 Mrs. Lana Lanham’s rehabilitation.
 Mrs. Jocilyn Warren’s health concerns.
Please contact Mr. LoGiudice with prayer requests.
Pray for preparations for the Spring Program.
May God be glorified, and may our guests be
blessed!
Character Comment
Walk Circumspectly – Part 3
See then that you walk circumspectly, … as wise, redeeming the time… Eph. 5:15-16
Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day. Even through
….. simple acts of obedience. --anon
Circumspectly is an interesting word as it is translated in the New King James version. Some versions translate
the Greek word simply as carefully. The word means exactly or with care, diligently, which is consistent with
this month’s Character Trait topic Diligence. The word circumspectly is closer to the original thought, carrying
the idea of circumference, a 360 degree watchful view of things. The English word circumspect is derived from
the Latin meaning guarded, deliberate, well-considered look around; from circum “around” + specere “to
look.” A modern idiom might be to “scope things out.” At this point I like the Amplified Bible’s translation of
Eph. 5:15, “Look carefully then how you walk! Live purposefully and worthily and accurately, not as the unwise
and witless, but as wise (sensible, intelligent people).”
Why all this talk about one word? Because if we are not circumspect, “In the end it’s not that which we have
done that we regret most but what we should have done.” Mr. Halloway - Something Wicked This Way Comes.
Continuing now in our serial reading of While We May, and the significance of seizing every day opportunities
by J.R. Miller. (Mark 14:3-8)
This is a lesson we should learn well. Opportunities come today and pass—and will never come to us again!
Other opportunities will come tomorrow—but these will never return. The human needs that make their
appeal to you now—will be beyond the reach of your hand by another day. Whatever kindness you would
do—you must do now—for you may not pass this way again.
If we realized this truth as we should, it would make the common events of our life mean far more than they
do. We are always meeting experiences which are full of rich possible outcomes. God is in all our days and
nights. Opportunities come to us with the hour, with the moment, and each one says to us, “You will not
always have me!” If we do not take them as they come, we cannot take them at all.
There are two kinds of sins: sins of omission and sins of commission; sins of doing wrong, as when we do evil
things; and sins of not doing good, as when we neglect to do the things we ought to have done.
One comes to you in distress, needing cheer, some kindly help, or deliverance from some danger, and you let
the trouble go unrelieved, the sorrow uncomforted, the need unsupplied. The opportunity has passed—and
you have missed it. There is a blank in your life; you have left a duty undone.
Everyone we meet any day, comes to us either to receive some gift or blessing from us, or to bring some gift or
blessing to us. We do not think of this, usually, in our crowded days, in the confusion of meetings and partings.
We do not suppose there is any meaning in what we call the incidental contacts of life, as when we ride upon
the bus beside another, for a few minutes; or meet another at a friend’s house and talk a little while together;
or when we sit beside another in the same office day after day. We are not in the habit of attaching any
importance to these contacts with others. …..to be continued