Fun Snack Cart for our OCCS Staff & Teachers:

Help us show appreciation to the OCCS teachers and staff on Wednesday, March 27, 2024! We have made a few changes on how we will do the “Fun Snack Cart” by spreading it out to have a snack brought in one day a quarter instead of just one week of blessing them. You can choose to sign up to volunteer your time to serve the snacks to the teachers or you can sign up to make them a special treat!

To Serve- you will come in at 1:45 to individually plate the items, place on a cart and walk them around school delivering to teachers and staff. After you are done bringing the treats you will bring the remaining treats back to the teacher’s lounge. Please clean up the area you used.

To bring food- Please have food to school by 1:00. We will need 8 people to make desserts/snacks items to serve 12 teacher and staff. (These items can be desserts, pie, bars, cookies, snack mix cups, etc.) Thank you for signing up!

Sign up here!

From the Tiger PAWS Tent Committee – Due to changes in the Health Code, we are no longer able to offer homemade pies baked in non-certified kitchens at the tent during Tulip Festival. Therefore, OCCS families will not be asked to bring pies on the morning of their shift at the tent. The committee has been working hard to find alternative options for dessert. One of these options includes apple and berry blossoms, which are a blossom shaped pastry with fruit filling. These will be served warm with the option to purchase ice cream. Another exciting new option will be stroopwafels, a traditional Dutch waffle cookie with syrup filling. These will be available for purchase as a single serving (2) or in packages of eight. We plan to continue offering scotcheroos at the tent as well. While it is disappointing we can no longer offer homemade pies, we hope these new options will be a great addition to the traditional soups, pig-in-the-blankets, and taverns we will still offer!

Spring Pig Making Nights: We are gearing up to make some pig-in-the-blankets for the Tulip Festival! The sign-up site will open on Monday, April 8^th at 7:00 PM. There are a few different options for shifts, so please read carefully to see what will work for you and your schedule. Each OCCS family is responsible for having one adult participate. Thank you for supporting our school in this way! If you have any questions, please contact Shawndra Kuiken at pskuiken@gmail.com   

https://signup.com/go/xDBDwbL

March 2024

Please join us in prayer for:

• 6th grade teachers: Mr. Hilbelink and Mrs. Oordt and para: Mrs. Kreykes
• Nurse: Mrs. De Groot
• Librarian: Mrs. Wielenga
• Prayers of Adoration: Praise Adonai! From the rising of the sun to the setting of the same!
• Prayers of Confession: We confess you are good, true goodness and we are far from that place
• Prayers of Thanksgiving: We thank you for the changing of seasons, for the longer days of sunlight, for the promise of spring.
• Prayers of Supplication: Wash over us and create in us a clean heart and hands of service to bless others

March Hymn: Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us

March Verse: Isaiah 40:29-31 “He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”

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