FCA Voice of Faith

This Week in the Voice of Faith

Senior of the Week

Samaire Thomas

I have attended Faith for 15 years. I have not completely decided what I plan to do after graduation.

I have been actively involved over the last 7 years in basketball, track and field and have have also played volleyball for 1 year. I have been a part of the Faith Orchestra in the percussion section for the last 5 years.

Best Wishes on your Senior Year Samaire!

There's a New Principal at FCA

Miss Grace Shoop is our Principal today! Her first order of business was declaring a dress down day and having everyone wear their Christmas finery and bling to match! She greeted the students at drop off and helped parents with sign in this morning. She loves her new office! She has a busy day ahead with teacher observations, a lunch meeting and all the details that go into being principal.

Great Job Grace!

Inclement Weather Policy

Just a reminder about our Inclement weather policy. Look for the link at the top of the Voice or click here.

In case of inclement weather, please be advised that we do not always follow the Berkeley County Public Schools' emergency closing schedule! Faith Christian Academy will always have its own announcement regarding school closings and delays. We will place announcements in the following media:

School website: www.faithchristianacademy.net (message will appear in a yellow box at top of home page)
A text message will be sent through RenWeb – all parents will receive a text alert Phone Message:
Call the school and enter extension 223 for weather related messages.

A Note About Year End Giving

As this year comes to an end, we want to thank you for your faithfulness to our school. Even with all of the guidelines and changes our school continues to thrive during this pandemic.

One of our faithful donors reached out to us with an end of year blessing. They offered to match the first $5,000 that we receive for Year End Giving. Donating is easy and can be done online. Click here to make your online donation.

2021 Parenting With A Purpose

We are thrilled to announce our second annual parenting conference, featuring sessions led by pastors from local churches in the Martinsburg area!

Parenting is an exhilarating, exhausting, terrifying, humbling and sacred calling from God. While there is no shortage of parenting advice today, much of it can leave us guilt-ridden and fearful.

This conference is NOT designed to merely point out what we are doing wrong or add to an already long to-do list. Rather, it is intended to lead us back to the role God has called us to as parents.

We will cover practical topics like technology’s place in the home, character and identify formation, and interaction with our culture, but all within the framework of leading our children in Christ.

The conference is open to all parents, though with parents of teenagers in mind. Regardless of the age of your children, it is never a wrong time to learn God’s direction for you as parents!

We hope you will leave equipped, encouraged, and connected with other families looking to lead their children to follow after God. All are welcome at the door but if you are able please register online using this link: www.mybhbc.com/parent. Let me know if you have any questions!

By His Grace,

Collin Lewis - Assistant Pastor of Youth and Outreach

Teacher Love Offering

Each year we have traditionally taken up a “Christmas Love Offering” at our Christmas concert. The purpose of that offering is to provide the teachers and staff at Faith Christian Academy a “love gift”: before Christmas.

So many of you have been giving so generously to our school, especially these past couple of months. If you are already giving please do not feel obligated, but if you want to show your love for the teachers and staff of Faith in the next few weeks you could send a check with “Staff Love Gift” on the memo line. You can also give a love gift online under the "Staff Love Offering" fund.

Every dollar of these funds will go to the faculty and staff as a love gift for Christmas. You are a blessing to this ministry! Thank you for your support!

Click here to donate online.

Welcome Emily

We are pleased to announce that Emily Kononovas is joining us as our "Tutoring and Resource Room Specialist." Emily is a graduate of FCA and is the mother of two FCA students, Abigail in 5th and Hannah in 7th. Emily has a bachelor's degree in elementary education.

Welcome to the family Emily!

Christmas Luminaries - Rosedale

We are excited to partner with Rosedale Cemetery this year with their Christmas Luminaire Project. On December 12th our FCA Interact Club will go to Rosedale and place over a 1,000 luminaries on grave sites and line the driveway for families to be able to drive through and remember their loved ones. The luminaries are $10 each and all proceeds are being donated back to Faith Christian Academy. Click here if you would like to purchase a luminaire.

Make an Ornament of your Favorite Book for the Library Tree

Congratulations to all of our students who participated in this years ornament contest. They are all amazing! Everyone did a fantastic job! Each student was able to place their ornament on the tree. Click here to view all of the students ornaments on the tree.

Congratulations to our winners Madisyn & Owen Burdette! Their ornament was the Hungry Caterpillar.

Ugly Christmas Sweater Day

Join us for "Ugly Christmas Sweater Day" on Tuesday, December 22nd! This is not a dress down day. Normal uniform pants are required, but you can wear an Ugly Christmas Sweater. If you decide not to participate in the "Ugly Christmas Sweater Contest" normal uniform is required.

There will be a winner selected in each class!

Dressing for the Weather

The weather is turning colder, and students need to be properly dressed for outdoor recess. We will get the students outside for fresh air as much as possible.

Please remember to send your child with a coat, hat and gloves for outdoor recess.

Student Accomplishments

The weather is turning colder, and students need to be properly dressed for outdoor recess. We will get the students outside for fresh air as much as possible.

Please remember to send your child with a coat, hat and gloves for outdoor recess.

Support BoxTops

Do you shop online?? You can still Score$$ for All Your BoxTop Purchases! It's easy... just email your receipt to: receipts@boxtops4education.com

Questions?? Look for our Facebook post and ask your questions there.. your coordinator will answer any questions there!!

Lost & Found Check the Bins

We have implemented a new procedure for the "Lost & Found. There are "Lost & Found" bins at the entrance of ALL of the bathrooms. At the end of the day Thursday all items that are not claimed will be thrown away. A helpful hint would be to label your students items, so that we can return them. This will be a weekly process to help keep the bins clear.

RenWeb Resource

Remember all of your parent documents can be found on RenWeb. All Documents are under the Resource Documents tab. Remember our District Code is FCA-WV. All CAPS.

Falcon Spirit Shop

FCA has a spirit shop! Click here to order all of your "Spirit Wear" needs!

Orders are processed on a monthly basis and shipped by the 20th of following month.

For example an order placed from January 1-31 will be shipped by Feburary 20.

Falcon Athletics

For fans that want to attend home games, please be sure to head to the Mason Dixon Christian Conference website first and review the guidelines for each school before attempting to attend a game. Faith's guidelines are at that site as well. Click here to view the Falcon Athletic calendar. Let's Go Falcons!