Last week was City Serve at LCS and our students and staff enjoyed serving our neighbors and the Omaha community.
Our morning kicked off with some wonderful, all school worship time from the team at Lifegate Church and included a special message from LCS parent, Tom Houghton. Mr. Houghton walked us through what it means to be a servant leader and why we should follow Jesus’ example of making our lives about others.
Kindergarten through 3rd grade spent the remainder of the morning filling blessing bags to deliver to our neighbors in the Wycliffe subdivision & Wycliffe Apartments. These bags were filled with popcorn, granola bars, snacks, treats, handmade cards, a free drink coupon from Stories Coffee Co., and an invitation to attend both our weekend services at Lifegate Church as well as our upcoming I AM THEY fundraising concert. [Haven’t purchased your tickets yet? Click HERE!]
4th through 7th graders received some formal education from the Keep Omaha Beautiful organization and went to Zorinsky Park for trash pick up.
Our 8th graders served at Center Park with storm drain clean up, replacing instructional stickers, and handing out educational brochures.
We love setting aside one day each year to focus on serving our city and reminding students that their small acts of love can be multiplied for great impact. We are already looking forward to our next all school service day in 2023!
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Every fall our 8th graders have the opportunity to visit Washington DC. This year we had a group of 43 students, parents, and staff attend the trip. The four day excursion is packed full with visiting the major sites in DC plus a day spent in Gettysburg!
We visited…the Holocaust Museum, Arlington National Cemetery, Mount Vernon, the Museum of the Bible, the Capitol, White House, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, WWII Memorial, Vietnam Wall, Korean War Memorial, Eisenhauer Memorial, Martin Luther King Jr. Monument, Library of Congress, Supreme Court, and Iwo Jima.
Two highlights of the trip were attending the Nebraska Breakfast where our students got to meet both Nebraska senators and our Representatives from the house and four of our students participating in a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. We learned so much and made lifelong memories!
A special thank you to all of our parents who also attended and helped keep our group safe while traveling! We sure appreciate you!
We couldn’t be the school that we are without our amazing volunteers. From classroom parties, listening to Bible verses in the hallway, celebrating teacher’s birthdays, school wide service days, and preparing hot lunch — it takes a village here at LCS. Thank you to each one of you who give your best and serve selflessly at our school every day!
Serving is more than just filling a void; it’s a tangible way to model Christ’s love in even the most simple ways.
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Not all of us are skilled enough to be flown to Denver for the weekend to mix sound for the Broncos vs. Vikings game, but our very own Mrs. Erin Green is! (See photo for proof) If you enjoyed watching that football game last weekend, credit goes to Erin for making the audio sound exceptional!
If you haven’t met Erin in person yet, it’s likely you’ve talked to her over the phone or exchanged emails about your student, as she serves our school in the role of Front Desk Receptionist. We are so grateful to have her on our team here at LCS.
While she is gifted in many areas here at the school office, one of her most unique skill sets is that she’s a highly talented live and post production audio engineer. Erin spent her career mixing sound for various television programs and sporting events featured on NET, ABC, ESPN, FOX, BTN, and CBS. She knows her way around a soundboard so well she can mix sports commentators, music, coach’s mics, screaming fans, and tv commercials simultaneously; it’s a work of art.
[The rest of us have to turn down our music just to see while we’re driving]
When Erin isn’t answering your phone calls, emails, the school front door, assisting ill children, entering attendance and lunch orders, distributing medication, applying band-aids, sending and receiving school records, OR working professional football games, she spends time with her husband and two daughters, who also attend school at LCS.
We are off to a great start as we’ve kicked off the 2022-2023 school year! One of our regular rhythms here at Lifegate Christian School is chapel each Wednesday. This is a special time for our students to come together for worship and a message targeted to their age group.
Our theme verse this year is Romans 11:36 which says “For from Him and through Him and for Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen.”
We live for an audience of One. Our goal of honoring the Lord in all we do does not stop at the Bible class or chapel, or church, or VBS, or Bible study… Jesus is in all things….. All parts of our school day, our sports, friendships, our thoughts, and what comes out of our mouths. In all those things, and in everything, we seek to honor the Lord.
Dr. Lundgren was our first chapel speaker this past Wednesday. She shared a story of a little girl who developed a severe case of polio as a child, leaving her face partially paralyzed from the illness. While grateful to survive, she struggled with feeling both a strong desire to become a teacher but fearful of having a career which required high visibility with students and parents. It took some time and wrestling in her heart, but she decided that if Jesus was “in all things”, He would be in this too.
This little girl went on to become a teacher, but she didn’t stop there. She later became a principal, a superintendent, and a professor of teacher education, who you now know more formally as our very own Dr. Michelle Lundgren! Small decisions for Jesus each day lead to an even greater impact for His kingdom. We are beyond thankful for her wisdom, guidance, and strong leadership at our school.
After being in the public school setting for 3 years, God instilled in our hearts to look into LCS. We have attended Lifegate for over 10 years, so we were encouraged to press in. It has exceeded our expectations. The quality of support for each child is so lifegiving and the love of Jesus is everywhere. My daughters are thriving and we can not wait to see what their futures hold. We are enjoying the community and opportunities to be involved in the daily school functions. In just the short time we have been a part of LCS, it has already changed our family dynamics. The girls are more confident in their prayers, they are reading the Bible nightly, and memorizing scripture weekly. Attending this school has been one of the biggest blessings we have received! When the world is full of darkness, Lifegate Christian School has been a beacon of light to us!
Why did you choose Lifegate Christian School for your child/children?
Our daughter was thriving academically in our local public school but not emotionally, socially, nor spiritually. We (mom & dad) decided to tour LCS as a possible alternative for our daughter. We were thoroughly impressed with the time given to us by the superintendent and principal to learn about their school and the warm welcome of the LCS teachers and staff. However, we felt it would be too much of a change for our daughter. Then Covid 2020 rocked our world. Like everyone, we homeschooled the remainder of that year. We knew that with the upcoming Covid guidelines we could not send our daughter back into our local public school and expect her to thrive, we knew Lifegate would offer a better choice for
her social, emotional, and spiritual needs even during a pandemic.
We chose LCS because our kids aren’t just “a number” in the school system, they are truly cherished each and every day.
They are prayed over, equipped, taught truth,cared for, loved on, and acknowledged for who they are. Each teacher and staff member recognizes each child and shows the true meaning of grace and kindness. We are forever grateful for a school that cares about our kids and helps equip them for God’s purpose over their lives!
When people ask me what I love most about LCS do I say the great education or the amazing teachers and staff? Do I say lifelong friendships are formed from the day they walk in the door? Yes, I love all of those things! The education is top-notch and can challenge even the brightest students. The LCS teachers are incredible. They treat their students with respect and great care. If a student or student’s family is going through something challenging at home, these individuals truly care, invest, and help supplement in any way needed, especially with prayer. The class sizes are small enough to allow the teachers the opportunity to continue building their former students up as they proceed into the next grades and the Specials teachers truly are special in the way they creatively reach kids from kindergarten to 8th grade in age-appropriate ways. The staff and administration are hospitable, responsive, engaged, and innovative. We are blessed by their remarkable leadership. I also love the friendships that my children are developing with other students at school that last from year to year to year. They don’t have to be with the same teacher to continue growing their previously built relationships. I could even give the churchy answer and say my favorite thing is their deepening relationship with Jesus as their Lord and Savior as they see it taught and modeled at school in ways that are unique but aligned to what they are learning at home.
I love each of these things more than words can express. But the #1 item on my list is the relationships that we have formed as families and as moms. I am so grateful for getting to do life with other like-minded families…families who encourage and support each other in good times and in struggles without judgment. Families who SEE each other and LOVE each other. If I am going through something at work, I can reach out to other moms I have befriended through LCS and know that I have prayer warriors in my corner. If our kids are struggling with something or facing a battle, we rally to support those kids and families together. I know that we are not in this alone. We have each other to cry with and to celebrate with. As the saying goes, “It takes a village”; LCS is a village. This is what makes LCS special. This is what makes LCS FAMILY.