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The Forest Lake Christian senior outlasted her Encina opponent 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (7-4) to lead the Falcon tennis team to a 7-2 victory at Lake of the Pines. The Falcons can clinch the Central Valley Christian League title with a win at Lindhurst Thursday.

Ashton Sante also rallied for a three-set win Tuesday at No. 1 boys singles while Jen Menary won in straight sets at No. 2 girls singles.

In doubles play, Amanda Timmerman and Ali Weir roared back from a 6-2 deficit to win 10-9 (8-6) at No. 1 girls doubles. Courtney Turner and Holly McClain won 10-2 at No. 2.

Nathan Burnett and Colin Rafter pulled out a 10-7 win at No. 1 boys doubles. Brian Butler and Megan Jug won 10-1 in mixed doubles.

Article Courtesy of the Auburn Journal

Lindsey Engbrecht scored three goals, two in the second half to break a halftime tie, and the Falcons beat host Vacaville Christian 3-1 in their regular season finale.

Engbrecht scored her first-half goal off a free kick. Her second-half goals were assisted by Dana Ormiston and Christa Weisman.

Goalkeeper Morghan Pomeroy made 11 saves

Forest Lake wrapped up the regular season 17-1 overall and 12-0 in the CVCL. The Falcons outscored their opponents 75-8.

Article Courtesy of the Auburn Journal

Saturday was a very fun day for the choirs. They had the treat of being able to spend the day at Great America enjoying the rides and attractions. Some students braved the rollercoasters, others frequented the carousel, a courageous few graced the karaoke stage - all had fun. The awards ceremony for Music in the Parks was held in the theme park that afternoon, whereupon the choirs found that they had received a rating of Excellent within all three categories they had competed in. Student accompanist and Chamber choir member, Michelle Granstrom, also received a medal for her skills as a pianist after accompanying the Men’s Chamber on a Latin piece during adjudications. Overall, the choirs were glad to have received such high ratings and cheered loudly for Mrs. Robinson when the time came to honor the choir directors. She has worked very hard preparing the choirs, and her work paid off.

On Sunday morning, the choirs packed up their belongings, enjoyed another complimentary breakfast in the hotel dining area, and then headed back to the charter bus. The students stopped in San Francisco around noon for lunch and sightseeing around Pier 39 and Ghirardelli Square. It was a beautiful sunny day and the students enjoyed some time to stretch their legs, shop, and enjoy some yummy food. Finally, they loaded the bus one last time and headed back to Forest Lake, tired but carrying new, delightful memories home with them.

~Emily Sidnam

I have those bookmarks in front of me right now. On the surface they are just cute little works of childish art. The “artist”  wrote phrases upon each one of the bookmarks that encouraged the user to “Be a Bookworm”, or to “Get your Nose in a Book”. But I must tell you that I was profoundly emoted by the message on one of the bookmarks as it encouraged me to “Read the Bible!” The exclamation point was hers. I hope the significance is not lost upon you.

One of the critical missions of Christian education is to prepare young people for Kingdom work. The intimate interaction with the word of God that our students receive in their classrooms each and every day is the critical ingredient to fulfilling that mission. The simple, natural , unforced way that this young girl identified the importance of reading the Word of God thrilled my soul and encouraged me in my own work. I receive that same thrill when my own children memorize the Word each week for their respective classes, and when they recite the Word in Chapel, memorize it for their speech meets, or share Bible stories and their applications with their mother and me when we tuck them in at night.

I dare say that a phrase of encouragement written upon a bookmark by a child without the daily blessing of Christian education may encourage me to “think green” or “imagine peace”, but without daily immersion in His word there is no possibility of  true peace and no eternal  purpose for stewardship.

~ David Wickstrom

Parent Education Night
A Partnership in Eternal Education
Thursday, May 7 @ 7:00 p.m.
High School Multi-Purpose Room

Worldview—Living As A Leader
Ben Williams, Director Summit Ministries Conferences and Worldview Team Director at Bryan College, Dayton, Tennessee
“Equipping students as godly leaders requires knowing the answers to the important questions in life.”

Please mark your calendar, invite a guest and RSVP to help us plan well. Please call the high school office at 530-269-1540 or 530-268-0931.

I guess I should mention that this father was about to witness the graduation of his fourth child from Forest Lake….and having said that you can probably guess what the number on the paper represented; twenty some odd years of affording private Christian school tuition. Of course in this case it was twenty some odd years of Forest Lake Christian School tuition payments. 

Although it was a fun, memorable and nostalgic conversation, what really stuck with me was his final comment; “every dollar spent was worth it!” I must tell you that in twenty nine years of Christian day school education I have received comments just like this many times over. Don’t get me wrong, the financial sacrifices families make to afford Christian day school education are very real. Family vacations over the years are simple, the cars and shoes have lots of miles on them, and some things around the house never seem to get fixed, but every dollar spent… IS worth it!

Dr. Roy Lowrie speaks eloqently on this issue: ”Let this be clear: Parents can trust God to finance His will for the lives of their children. Such trust in this area of tuition money is a remarkable growth experience for parents and for their children alike. The children need to know that it is God who is supplying the money for them to attend the school. This will encourage them to trust God for money in their subsequent years, a great lesson for a Christian to learn. Rarely does God provide the tuition money through some large gift to the family. Usually He provides by allowing the father, and many times the mother, to have jobs to earn the money. In God we live and move and have our being so the salary earned is because of His goodness. Most tuition money is accounted for by the priorities established by the Christian school family. They could easily spend that money on something else, but they put the Christian school toward the top in their system of values and spend less money on other things. Their tithes and offerings are followed by their tuition in order of importance.”  A longtime Christian educator, Ezra Wolgemuth, often said, “Christian school education doesn’t cost….it pays.”

 If you were to ask this father I spoke about a moment ago if he still feels that every dollar spent on Christian education for his children was worth it after observing the character of his children since they have left this place, I believe he would affirm another wholehearted, yes! Many of today’s young people have a difficult time seeing any moral dimension to their actions. The news is filled with one horrific example after another of a culture that has lost its moral compass. There are a number of reasons why this is true, but none more prominent than a failed system of public education that eschews teaching children the traditional moral values of American society and culture. That failed approach, called “decision making” or “values clarification” was introduced some thirty years ago in our public schools. It tells children to decide for themselves what is right and what is wrong. It replaced “character education” which was historically part of American public schools and of course is still the center-piece of Christian schools today. It tells children that right and wrong are absolute standards determined by the one and only true God. These standards are only found in His Word. Character education didn’t ask children to reinvent the moral wheel; instead it encourages children to know God’s standards and practice them.

It is the height of naivete, of course, to blame every cultural malaydise on the nation’s public schools. But it is equally naive to assume that twelve years of non-Christian education is going to produce a generation of spiritual giants! The Word of God placed at the center of the school’s curriculum makes all the difference in the world in the student “product” of that school. I believe that the Theologian and Philosopher Martin Luther said it best, “I am much afraid that schools will prove to be great gates of hell unless they diligently labor in explaining the holy scriptures, engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advice no one to place his child where the scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which men are not increasingly occupied with the word of God must become corrupt.”

Although I believe the question at hand is worth the consideration particularly in light of the economy, I believe the real question is how can we even consider not trusting God for such an important endeavor? How big is your God? Are you looking out of a window of fear or faith as you consider where to enroll your children next year? We must trust the Lord with our resources; it is from Him that all blessings flow anyway. Billy Graham was fond of saying that we can determine the priorites of our faith by examining our check book.