The Mane Events

Fall 2020 Volume 26, Issue 1 Fudge Fest 2020!!!

It’s our 6th annual Fudge Fest! This fundraiser is the largest fundraiser for our school and we’ve added a couple of exciting items this year. The first is a sponsorship program (see page 2), the sec- ond is a website (columbuschristian.org/fudge) where you can simply go online, order your fudge, and pay with a card. With these new additions we have boosted our sales quite a bit!

We also added incentives for our students this year. They can win lanyards/bracelets once they sell 10 boxes, a mini candy bouquet if they sell 30 boxes, and a mystery trip (after covid restrictions are eased) if they sell 40 boxes as an individually or 60 boxes as a family! The students have really re- sponded and are doing fantastic with their sales this year!

This year, the school board decided to believe for BIG results and challenged us with a BIG goal! Our goal is $17,000 in fudge sales and/or sponsorships. So far we have more than $10,000! Could you help us get us over the finish line? You have from now until November 11th to get place your order. You have three ways to order: call the office 402-562-6470, email at [email protected], or order online columbuschristian.org/fudge)

1 box for $20 3 boxes for $57 Each box contains 6 pieces of fudge—you can 6 pieces of one flavor, a variety pack with 1 piece of each flavor, or any combination to get to 6 pieces.

Cherry Bing Hint of Mint Peanut Chocolate Traditional Sweet Chocolate fudge Chocolate fudge Butter Walnut Chocolate Praline mixed with swirled with Creamy peanut Rich chocolate A classic rich Rich vanilla fudge chopped peanuts creamy mint butter fudge fudge with Eng- and creamy with a center of and hand-swirled chewy caramel sweet cherry 2 Mane Events New This Year!

Mane Events is the quarterly Fudge Sponsorship Program newsletter for CCS, updat- ing you on our events and students. This year we have launced our Fudge Sponsorship Program—it has Columbus Christian School been amazingly successful! Sponsorship is a way for friends and 3418 15th Street businesses of CCS to partner with us in a very tangible way as de- PO Box 924 scribed in each of our levels below. This has really helped our stu- Columbus, NE 68602-0924 dents to win their incentives for sales goals and is helping our school 402.562.6470 to reach our big goal of $17, 000. for both the students sales goals and for the overall sales goal. As Liana Holt, Office Manager you look over the possible sponsorships, would you be willing to be [email protected] a sponsor? We are still looking for those who believe in Christian Education and investing in our next generation! CCS Board Members Andy Tiemeyer President

Doug Holt Vice-President ——-—Partner Level: $1,000———

Aaron Ogan Receive 3 boxes of fudge for every $100 delivered to you or your Treasurer business, PLUS Your business logo on CCS website, in the Mane Event Quarterly Newsletter for twelve months, on a banner dis- Santiago Vasquez played outside CCS, your business listed in the weekly Main Event Secretary AND your business listed on the insert in over 900 boxes of fudge as a sponsor of CCS. Aaron Brant General Board

—Supporter Level: $500-$1,000— Mission: Receive 3 boxes of fudge for every $100 delivered to you or your business. To glorify God through the PLUS Your business logo on a banner displayed outside of CCS School, educating, discipling, and your business listed in our weekly Main Event and your name listed on the nurturing of students with insert in over 900 boxes of fudge as a sponsor of CCS. God’s Word.

Our Vision: To partner with families and churches in reaching their ——-Friend Level: Up to $500——— children with the Gospel of Christ and educating them for Receive 3 boxes of fudge for every $100 delivered to you or your busi- a lifetime of committed ser- ness. PLUS your name will be listed on the insert in over 900 boxes of vice, obedience, and leader- fudge as a sponsor of CCS. ship in God’s kingdom.

“...increasing in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.” Luke 2:52 3 What’s New at CCS

Choose Joy has been the theme of our school this semester. It is not always easy to fulfill this mandate—one does not always feel joyful. But by faith, we choose joy and we encourage our students to choose joy as well. The hallmark of Chrisitanity is that we don’t live by what we see, hear, or feel but we live according to the Word of God –...though you have not seen him, you love him; even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls. 1 Peter 1:8-9 Grasping hold of the promise in this verse, “you...are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy”, a person can realize that it really comes down to choosing to allow God to fill us with that joy—we have Jesus and truly that is enough to fill my heart clear to the brim and overflow- ing—It is joy unspeakable and full of glory! -Liana Holt, CCS Office Manager Calendar of Events Vision Doug Holt, VP of the Board November Vision: the ability to think about or plan the 11/27-11/29 NO School - Happy future with imagination or wisdom. Thanksgiving The bible clearly states in Proverbs 29:18 “Where there is no vision, the people 11/30 Fudge Service Hours Begin perish: December CCS has a clear vision for growth, edu- cation, spiritual development, and a Christian 12/9-13 Fudge Orders Delivered community. By using wisdom and faith we can see CCS families working together to meet the 12/18 CCS Christmas Program needs of our school-now and in the future. We 7:00 pm First Baptist know we can’t do this alone, it takes everyone Church of us who care about CCS to be involved in moving this school into the next chapter of 12/22 2nd Quarter Ends growth. Looking to the past for wisdom, and into the future with faith, we remain faithful to 12/23-1/4 Christmas Break the call. How do you see the school in five years, 1/5 Professional Development ten years? A story I once heard told about two Day inmates in a jail cell looking out the window at January night, one said to the other inmate “look at all the stars in the sky”, the other said “all I see is 1/6/2020 School Resumes bars”. The moral of this story is both were right. When you look into the future of CCS, TBD Soup Supper (Jan. or Feb.) are you looking for the stars or are the bars in your way today? Look again, there are people at CCS that are leaning over the edge, looking for a path of growth; help anchor them as they forge a path we all can follow. I believe God has a plan for CCS and it’s a plan for success, a plan for life, a plan for victory and growth.

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We are pleased to have our pre- school program up and running this year! Megan Stocker is our new di- rector and has some great vision for enhancing and growing this pro- gram. She and her husband have recently moved to Columbus and are expecting thier first child in December!

The preschool class was able to take the ever-popular pumpkin patch trip to Poppy’s Pumpkin Patch. The class met together at the pumpkin patch to enjoy the beautiful fall day.

Kindergarten & 1st Grade ”Remember” -Mrs. Wieberdink

In Kindergarten and First grade we have been learning about how God took care of the children of Israel. After God opened the Jordan River for them to cross, they gath- ered 12 stones to REMEMBER what God had done for them and so that they could RE- MEMBER to tell their children. We made and painted stones of REMEMBRANCE to help us RE- MEMBER what God has done and so we can tell our children. These are the things our class remem- bers that God has done.

Emily - stars - The sun moon and stars bowed to Joseph, God took care of Joseph. - heart - God took care of me when I was afraid in the dark. Cora - Red Sea - God parted the Red Sea so they could cross - heart - I was sick and had to go to Urgent Care. God helped me feel better. Sophia –Red Sea –God opened the water. cross –I had a bad cough, I closed my eyes and Mom cried. I prayed for God to make me better. He did! Caleb –Red Sea-God took care of the Israelites and parted the Red Sea. cross –God takes car of me. Emma –Jordan River –God opened the river so they could cross. cross –Jesus died for our sins and He rose again, God to care of my little brother too! Mrs. W –Rainbow –God protected Noah and his family when the flood came, God will protect us too. -heart –God took care of our family when our son was in the ICU What do you remember that God has done for you? 5 2nd & 3rd Grade “Reading is Power” –Mrs. Beck

2nd and 3rd grade students in Mrs. Beck’s class experience first hand the power in reading as they are given a stem challenge without directions or additional details. After trying for a few minutes to build a catapult, students stopped and discussed why it was so hard. “ You didn’t tell us how!” exclaimed one student. “ This must be a lesson,” inferred another. Students were then given a written text that included the directions and a picture of the cata- pult they were challenged to build. When Mrs. Beck’s class tried again, everyone was successful and students experienced the difference between completing the activity with and without reading directions. The biggest takeaway from the activity was that reading is a key to unlocking knowledge.

4th, 5th, & 6th “Living History”–Mrs. Tobiason

This year we have a couple of new stu- dents in our classes, Levi Brant-4th Grade & Tayllir Hopkins—5th Grade. Our students enjoyed a local field trip to one of the treasures we have right here in Columbus. They walked to the Hig- gins Memorial and learned about World War 2 history, Andrew Higgins, and the “Higgins boats”. It was a great way to still have a field trip, get out into the community, and 4th, 5th, to learn through experience. & 6th Field Trip to Higgins Me- morial 6 You Can Support

Box Tops Please help us collect Super The Box Tops program is now an app that Saver receipts! Buckets are you download onto a Smartphone, enter our located in the store by the school and just scan your receipt within 14 check outs or you may bring your receipts to the school. days of purchasing your products that have a We earn points that we can Box Top label on them. They will automati- use to earn FREE items for cally calculate it and save it to go towards our school through the Apples for the Students pro- our school. gram. We earned enough points last year to receive If you don’t have a smartphone, just some new sports equipment, kinetic sand and other drop your receipts off at the school within classroom supplies. Save your Super Saver Re- the 14 day purchase period and our Box ceipts—Every little bit helps and adds up! Tops coordinator will scan turned in re- ceipts EVERY FRIDAY! Amazon Smile Support our school in an easy way! When you go to Amazon Smile and make Columbus Christian School your organization of choice to support, you generate money for our school! It’s that easy. Just make sure you are buying on the Amazon Smile website each time.

Pray for CCS! This is one of the biggest needs we have! As a school, we are teaching and preparing the next generation of the Christian faith! It is a truly awesome responsibility that the Lord has Chapel given us and we can’t do it without lots of prayer support. A couple of prayer points to Every Wednesday we have Chapel consider: Covid will not shut down our school, with our students. We are encouraging local our students and families will remain healthy, Ministers to lead chapel each week so that our students develop strong faith & character, the children can see & get to know the Chris- and that our staff will be encouraged and tian leaders in our community. They are given strengthened as this has been a challenging our weekly Bible verse and give a devotional and demanding time. Finally, a prayer for for the school. unity between our staff, our students, our In a normal year, we welcome folks to families, and our friends because it is a com- join us each week, but with Covid restrictions, mon strategy of the enemy to divide and con- we are limiting the amount of visitors at the quer, but we will remain strong together! school. We do look forward to a time when friends can join in again with our students.

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Save the Date CCS Christmas Program For: Rick Benson From: Steven & Joni Woodside Friday, December 18th Larry& Anne Pilakowski 7:00 p.m. Wieberdink Darrel & Jan First Baptist Church William Dodson 3210 30th Street Kim & Ruby Miller Kurt & Carrie Kuhlman Douglas & Carol Willoughby Our flash fundraiser Douglas & Judy Denio was a fun kickoff to Deanna AscheWilma Arp the season. We Patricia Ernst thought it would be great to put Jesus For: Mary Jo Mord into the center of our From: Karen Tate nation’s focus! It also For: Cathy Weinmeister brought in about $800 for the school budget! From: Pat Tobiason Trent & Kristin Tobiason

For: George Ostermiller From: Andy & Julie Tiemeyer Shout out Andy Tiemeyer & his family Trent & Kristin Tobiason are our rock stars for cleaning our William & Beth MacArthur

school everyday—3 times per everyday!!! That is a lot of time and commitment to our staff, students, and school. We thank -you him for this outstanding effort to keep us safe during this covid season.

The global day of stu- dent prayer on September 23rd “See You at the Pole”. Our staff & students led prayers for our school, students, & na- tion.

Get in touch with one of our School Board Members

Andy Tiemeyer, President Aaron Ogan, Treasurer Aaron Brant , General [email protected] [email protected] Board [email protected]. Doug Holt, Vice-President Santiago Vasquez, Secretary [email protected] [email protected]

Cooks Night Out!!

Cooks Night Out is a night where your family meal is prepared by someone else! This event occurs every few weeks at an assigned restaurant. The restaurant will donate a percentage of the sales to our school. Below is the schedule—you can post this page on your refrigerator as a reminder!

November 11, 2020: Arby’s 5:00 – 8:00 PM Dine-in and Drive-thru 20% of sales will be donated to the school You must tell the employee that you are from CCS when ordering!!! 402-563-4111

December 9, 2020: Panda Express 11:00 AM – 8:30 PM Dine-in and Drive-thru 20% of sales will be donated to the school You must present the Panda Express School Flyer or show the employee the image from a digital device!!!January 13, 2021:

Runza 4:00 – 8:00 PM Dine-in, Drive-thru, and Take-out 10% of all sales will be donated to the school You do NOT need to tell the employee that you are from CCS!!!

February 10, 2021: Valentino’s 5:00 – 8:00 PM Dine-in, Take-out, and Delivery 10% of all sales will be donated to the school You do NOT need to tell the employee that you are from CCS!!!

March 10, 2021: Subway… all 3 stores will participate 5:00 – Close (not all locations close at the same time)

April 2021: Amigos (West location) 5:00 – 8:00 PM Tuesday and Thursday Currently Drive-thru only 15% of sales go to the school