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Important Upcoming Dates:

Feb 4: All School Mass at 7:45am
Feb 7-11: Spirit Week (themes below)
Feb 11: All School Mass at 7:45am
Feb 12: There’s No Place Like Home ~ Fundraising Gala!
Feb 14: Valentine’s Day Theme Day (wear red, white, pink or hearts)
Feb 15: Lumen Spirit Wear Day
Feb 16: P/T Conferences (2:30-5pm)
Feb 17: P/T Conferences (4-7pm)
Feb 18: Inservice Day (No School)
Feb 21: President’s Day Holiday (No School)
Feb 18-20: 10th Grade retreat @ St. Therese’s Camp (St. Ben’s Winter Retreat) Feb 24: Lumen Spirit Wear Day (HS BB Senior Night vs BCS)
Feb 25: All School Mass at 7:45am
Mar 2: Ash Wednesday Mass at 7:45am
Mar 3: Synod Parent-Teacher Session, 6:30-8:30pm (sign up below)
Mar 3-5: BB Regions @ Lumen
Mar 4: Inservice (No School–start of Spring Break)
Mar 14: Return from Spring Break
Mar 16-19: BB State Championships
Apr 15: Good Friday (No School)
Apr 17: Easter Sunday! CHRIST IS RISEN!
Apr 18: Easter Monday (No School)
Apr 23: Spring Speaker Series
Apr 29: Last School Mass with Seniors @ 7:45am
Apr 30: High School Prom
May 4: Class of 2022 Baccalaureate Mass, 7pm
May 5: Class of 2022 Graduation Ceremony, 7pm
May 17-19: Finals
May 19: Last Day of Classes

Principal’s Update:

Thank you to all who joined us Tuesday evening for our 6th Annual State of the School. I apologize for the audio if you tuned in to the livestream on Facebook. We had it all set up to go beforehand and then, as technology is apt to do, it failed at the last minute. We have added the slide deck to our school website for your further review here:https://lumenchristiak.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Lumen-Christi-State-of-the-School-2022-1.pdf

For those not able to attend in person or virtually, we introduced our illustrious School Board and our parish and school staff. We reviewed our foundational documents, including our mission statement, our vision and Core Values, and our six Attributes of a Lumen Graduate. We highlighted some of the great things we have done over the past year, including a 30% increase in enrollment and strong performance by our Class of 2022 on the PSAT and SAT despite the challenges of COVID. While other schools and districts are discussing “learning loss” from online learning or lockdowns, we celebrated the learning and development accomplishments of our students. Four members of our Class of 2022 spoke about their experiences taking college classes while in high school, winning a state basketball championship and playing football for Dimond, participating in our Student Leadership Board and our rifle program, and working on critical thinking and speaking skills in our Senior Bioethics Seminar and debate program. Joshua, Brenden, Frankie and Jack, as well as the other 12 members of the Class of 2022, continue to make us proud and showcase the awesome things happening here at Lumen.

We celebrated and recognized our newest “And Then Some” Award recipient, Class of 2024 sophomore Kennedy Thimsen, who goes above and beyond to make Lumen a special place to be each day. We recognized the great accomplishments of our National Honor Society chapter and Mrs Loeffler’s tremendous work in faith formation through our active Campus Ministry program. We thanked all those who helped us achieve 108% of our goal through the LUMENary Drive last fall and our Director of Advancement, Anne Gore, provided an update on our annual Gala scheduled for Saturday, Feb 12th as well.

We ended the evening by highlighting where we are going in the future. I encourage you to review some of the things we are still planning on doing, including our COGNIA reaccreditation review on March 30-Apr 1, our math curriculum review scheduled for Apr-May, and the soon to be announced School Crest competition.

I covered a lot of ground in an hour on Tuesday and I know I left many things out. We just have so many good news stories here at Lumen to sing from the mountain tops. I hope you take time to review the slide deck and take pride in your school. I’m happy to follow up with any questions you may have.

We pray for victory, good sportsmanship, and safe travels for our high school basketball teams competing in Nenana this weekend as well as our middle school volleyball teams who will compete in a jamboree here at Lumen on Friday. May you have a wonderful weekend! God bless!

Campus Ministry:

The monthly theme for February is LOVE FOR NEIGHBOR. Below are some helpful resources for parents looking to discuss the strength of Love for Neighbor at home: https://www.sportsleader.org/sites/default/files/newsletter-assets/Love%20for%20Neighbor%20Parent%20P DF%202.pdf

• Join us February 4th (ton orrow) in classroom 107 between 6 and 7 p.m. to make sandwiches for Brother Francis Shelter. Students have made almost 700 so far!
• Legion of Mary meets each Monday during 7th hour in room 120.
• Our 10th grade retreat is February 18-19.
• All Students are invited to the St. Benedict Winter Retreat February 18-19.
• St. Benedict Youth nights are Wednesdays 7-9 p.m. All are welcome!
• Each week our sports teams celebrate Mass together. Parents are invited! Each sports Mass is at 7 a.m. in St. Benedict Church. Schedule is as follows:
  • ○  Basketball: Wednesday, February 9
  • ○  Riflery: Thursday February, 10
  • ○  Volleyball: Wednesday, February 16

○  Riflery: Thursday, February 17

Last Friday students made 285 Sandwiches for Brother Francis Shelter!! Thank you for all your donations; please keep sending meat, sliced cheese, and bread.

Front Office News:

TICK TOCK! NINE DAYS and COUNTING!

This coming Monday, things start to roll out and by next Saturday when we go live, we’ll be full steam ahead!

**REMINDERS**

**If you want to pre-order a meal from our community partner Bridge Seafood Restaurant, those orders are due this Saturday at noon! Don’t miss out on the chance to have dinner made for you on the night of the event. Head Chef Patrick Hoogerhyde will be on hand to help distribute meals if you have any questions about them.

**Set your alarms for 6:45p on the night of the event, that’s when the pre-show starts and when you can start registering for or whiz-bang fantastic door prizes!

**At last check there were 2 AK Airline Raffle Tickets left for sale but still lots of the (just released yesterday) “$250 worth of Gala-Cash” ones. Get’em while you can!

**Register here to do darn near everything! Purchase meals, buy raffle tickets, starting next week view and bid on items: https://lchsak2022.ggo.bid

Finally: Below is the schedule for next week, stay tuned on Facebook for more information as we’ll be pushing out news there every day. Oh – and curious about 2/10 – “Archangel Select”? All class projects and high end items fall into this category. Oooooh so fancy!

Spirit Week (Feb 7-11)

The Student Leadership Board has voted on holding a Spirit Week for the week of Feb 7-11 to show spirit for our upcoming Gala as well as the high school basketball tournament in Su-Valley (Feb 10-12) and the middle school volleyball jamboree on Feb 11. Theme days are:

Wonderfully Made: God’s Unique Gift of Femininity

National Honor Society (NHS)

Beanie Box Drive for Beans Cafe

The National Honor Society is organizing a “Beanie Box Drive for Beans Cafe” running January 24th- February 4th. Essential items will be collected by grade and boxes of these necessities will be assembled and delivered to Beans Cafe to help during the winter months. Students who donate the following items to their advisories will receive a spirit day and the grade with the highest percent participation will receive an ice cream party:

The Postal Service is delivering one shipment of 4 COVID tests per residential address. Enter your name, address and email at www.usps.com/covidtest. Note that we also have a robust supply at the school right now, so if you need some before your supply shows up in the mail, don’t hesitate to ask!

Come Support Two of Our Lumen Students!

On February 10,11,12, 18 and 19 Dimond High School Theatre will be presenting a musical based on The Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tale: ONCE UPON A MATTRESS. Kateri and Vincent’s Everard will be participating in this drama production! See flyer below for more information:

Volunteer/Parent Share Hours Opportunities

Synod Parent-Teacher Session

https://signup.com/go/tOhJQOF

Archangel Attic

http://rmd.me/K35tQofj0Vf

Important Upcoming Dates:

Jan 30-Feb 5: Celebrate Catholic Schools Week/Re-registration Begins
Jan 31: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton School 6th Grade “Jump Up Day”
Feb 1: Casual day for any student who wears Mass uniform to church on Jan 29-30 Feb 1: 6th Annual State of the School Address, 7pm (gym)
Feb 2: BB Team Mass at 7am
Feb 2: Assist at JBER USO, 3:40-7pm (Faith in Action Opportunity)
Feb 3: MS VB and Riflery Team Mass at 7am
Feb 4: All School Mass at 7:45am
Feb 7-11: Spirit Week (themes TBD)
Feb 12: There’s No Place Like Home ~ Fundraising Gala!
Feb 15: Lumen Spirit Wear Day
Feb 16: P/T Conferences (2:30-5pm)
Feb 17: P/T Conferences (4-7pm)
Feb 18: Inservice Day (No School)
Feb 21: President’s Day Holiday (No School)
Feb 18-20: 10th Grade retreat @ St. Therese’s Camp (St. Ben’s Winter Retreat) Mar 2: Ash Wednesday Mass at 7:45am
Mar 3-5: BB Regions @ Lumen
Mar 4: Inservice (No School–start of Spring Break)
Mar 14: Return from Spring Break
Mar 16-19: BB State Championships

Principal’s Update:

We congratulate Class of 2023 Junior Natalie Grubba and Class of 2024 Sophomores Kateri Everard and Mia Sperbeck for their induction into our National Honor Society chapter. Congratulations to the three newest members of NHS and well done on your service, leadership, character and scholarship!

As mentioned last week, for any Lumen student who wears their school Mass uniform to church (Catholic parish or otherwise) during this weekend (Jan 29-30), they earn a casual day on Tues, Feb 1.

Finally, I hope you will consider attending our 6th Annual State of the School on Tuesday, Feb 1st at 7pm in the gym. This annual event brings our community together to hear presentations on what we’ve accomplished this year and where we are going in the future. This serves as my quarterly Principal-Parent Forum, so you won’t want to miss it. We hope to live stream the event via Facebook. I hope to see you on Tuesday!

Campus Ministry:

This week’s virtue is UNDERSTANDING. Below are some helpful resources for parents looking to discuss the strength of Understanding at home: https://www.sportsleader.org/sites/default/files/newsletter-assets/Understanding%20Parent%20PDF.pdf

●  Our 10th grade retreat is February 18-20 at St. Therese Camp. Further information will be coming out soon. We are working to ensure safety of all retreatants as the COVID status fluctuates.

●  All Students are invited to the St. Benedict Win ter Retreat February 18-20.

Saturday, Jan 29th vs CIA @ Lumen (1pm) Feb 3-5 at Nenana Invitational Tournament

High School Boys Basketball

Saturday, Jan 29th vs. CIA @ Lumen (2:30pm) Feb 3-5 at Nenana Invitational Tournament

Front Office News:

TWO WEEKS!

So. Many. Great. Things. Happening and the Gala is just 2 weeks away!

Second thing – Door Prizes! Not gonna lie, we were scratching our heads over how to best distribute “virtual” tickets. We now have that dialed in! The night of the auction you simply have to enter your name in the ‘comment’ section of the Facebook live stream feed – members of our crack shot team will be monitoring that and will enter your name into a spreadsheet of assigned numbers. An online random number generator will select the winners of each prize.

Here’s the fine print: you have to have your name entered before 7:10pm. The pre-show starts at 6:45pm, so we recommend you log in early, get your name entered and then get ready for the show which will begin promptly at 7:00pm. More fine print: While there’s no cost to be entered in for a Door Prize Drawing, you must be present online to claim your prize and win.

Door Prize #1 = Airpods Pro
Door Prize #2 = Two nights at the Captain Cook Hotel in a Junior Suite + a $200 gift certificate for the Crow’s Nest
Door Prize #3 = Willow Creek raft trip for four

HOW TO GET INVOLVED:

** Register here for the live and silent events, and to purchase AK Airlines Raffle Tickets: lchsak2022.ggo.bid

** Like , Love , Invite and Share our Event on our Facebook Page:(7) Lumen Christi High School Gala/Auction Fundraiser | Facebook
** Keep watching our Facebook Page for more information about……everything!

The USO is a nonprofit support organization whose mission is to connect service members with family, home and country throughout their service to our nation. https://alaska.uso.org/stories/1

Free At-Home COVID-19 tests

The Postal Service is delivering one shipment of 4 COVID tests per residential address. Enter your name, address and email at www.usps.com/covidtest. Note that we also have a robust supply at the school right now, so if you need some before your supply shows up in the mail, don’t hesitate to ask!

National Honor Society (NHS)

Beanie Box Drive for Beans Cafe

The National Honor Society is organizing a “Beanie Box Drive for Beans Cafe” running January 24th- February 4th. Essential items will be collected by grade and boxes of these necessities will be assembled and delivered to Beans Cafe to help during the winter months. Students who donate the following items to their advisories will receive a spirit day and the grade with the highest percent participation will receive an ice cream party:

7th- hats and lotion/ body wash
8th- gloves and deodorant
9th- socks and lip balm
10th- hand/feet warmers
11th- travel shampoo and playing cards 12th- coffee and toilet paper

Important Upcoming Dates:

Jan 7: All School Mass at 7:45am
Jan 12: Wednesday Hot Lunch (High School)
Jan 14: All School Mass at 7:45am
Jan 17: MLK Holiday (No School)
Jan 19: Wednesday Hot Lunch (Junior High)
Jan 21: All School Mass at 7:45am
Jan 26: Wednesday Hot Lunch (High School)
Jan 28: All School Mass at 7:45am
Jan 30-Feb 5: Celebrate Catholic Schools Week
Jan 31: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton School “Jump Up Day”
Feb 1: Catholic Schools Week Mass at 10am @ OLG
Feb 1: SAVE THE DATE! 6th Annual State of the School Address, 7pm (gym) Feb 12: There’s No Place Like Home ~ Fundraising Gala!
Feb 16-17: P/T Conferences
Feb 18: Inservice Day (No School)
Feb 21: President’s Day Holiday (No School)
Feb 18-20: 10th Grade retreat @ St. Therese’s Camp (St. Ben’s Winter Retreat) Mar 2: Ash Wednesday Mass at 7:45am
Mar 3-5: BB Regions @ Lumen
Mar 4: Inservice (No School–start of Spring Break)
Mar 14: Return from Spring Break
Mar 16-19: BB State Championships

Principal’s Update:

Well, we are off to an interesting spring semester and 2022! We ask you to pray for all those affected by travel delays (we still have many students and families stuck around the country) as well as those impacted by this recent COVID surge (we have several students and family members recovering from illness). I appreciate everyone’s flexibility and support as we started out mask optional but quickly transitioned back to masks as the community numbers increased. We will continue to monitor the situation closely and adjust accordingly. Our primary focus is to continue to keep our doors open to in-person learning despite the challenges we face.

With the colder temperatures, I ask parents to ensure that your son or daughter is “dressed for the weather” each day. I do greet quite a few students entering the school building in the morning and walking around the school without a fleece sweater, jacket, or other warming layer. Students with exposed skin (bare legs for ladies and bare arms for all) will be extremely miserable (and maybe even become hypothermic or frostbitten) in the event of an emergency. In November 2018, following the 7.1 earthquake, we had to evacuate the building and our students stood outside for over an hour while we ensured a suitable alternate location was safe to occupy. We also run monthly fire drills or other evacuation procedures, so please make sure your son or daughter is prepared and dresses accordingly each morning.

Good luck to our Archangel basketball teams who have scrimmages against Homer and Cook Inlet Academy this Friday and Saturday!

Campus Ministry:

This month’s virtue is Prudence. Below are some helpful resources for parents looking to discuss the strength of Prudence at home: https://www.sportsleader.org/sites/default/files/newsletter-assets/Prudence%20Parent%20PDF%202.pdf

●  Many thanks to our Junior Legion of Mary that meets every Monday at 1 p.m. for prayer and service. They have spent time making dozens of sandwiches for Brother Francis shelter. We have room for more members!

●  Happy Birthday this weekend to Noah Tzetcoff and Isabella Surles!

●  Our 10th grade retreat is February 18-20 at St. Therese Camp. Information will be sent out this week.

Archangel Sports:

Middle School Girls Volleyball

Middle School Volleyball practice will begin this upcoming

Monday, January 10, 2022 at the gym
from 4:15-6:00 pm

Interested players, please show up in appropriate workout attire. More information will be given at practice.
Please contact: chrisandkimguzman@gmail.com for any questions.

High School

Boys Basketball Scrimmage game
vs Homer Tomorrow Friday Jan. 7th at 5pm (gym)

vs Tanana Monday, Jan. 10th at 6pm (gym)

Girls Basketball

Scrimmage game vs CIA Saturday, Jan. 8th at 1pm

Rifle Program

Mr. Ross would like to continue our rifle program this spring with all “NEW SHOOTERS” (meaning those that did not shoot in the fall). Signups will start on Monday, January 10, and will be limited to 8 students total. Open to both junior high and high school students. Practices will take place during the 7th period starting Tuesday, January 18th through Thursday, April 2nd. We will be participating in the Orion 2022 National Air Rifle New Shooter League, with weekly “virtual” competitions against teams from around the nation. For more information, contact Mr. Ross at bross@lumenchristiak.org

Front Office News:

LUMENary Drive

And that’s a WRAP! With true heartfelt thanks for the generosity of so many, we’re thrilled to announce that we met both our financial and our fingers-crossed-timeline goals for this year’s LUMENary Drive! With an as-of-today total of $76,058.00 we’re officially at 101.41% of our $75,000 goal, which last year, took us until the end of April to meet. The generosity of Lumen families and community supporters is extraordinary. Thank You!

Parent Shout Outs

A huge shout out to the Anchorage Lion’s Club and to Cathy Medland, R.N. for organizing the free Vision and Hearing checks for our students and staff this past Tuesday! We are all so thankful!

Another huge shout out to Michelle Hohmann, Sherry Strizak, Bob Gunderson and John Mitchell for their amazing HOT LUNCH teamwork last semester! Thank you for picking right back up this week and continuing hot lunch for this spring semester! You are awesome!

Remind Text Messages

Just a FYI for parents, the Remind Team has recently notified us that they will be assigning new Remind phone numbers to SMS users. Feel free to save the number when you receive our next phone text/message from us! If you have never received school text messages, please contact: lchs@lumenchristiak.org and Mrs. Guzman will add you to the list!

27th Annual Gala Fundraiser

Invitations will be out in the mail tomorrow; donations are coming in; the bidding site will open soon and the Gala Team has some amazing and oh-so-clever things planned to help make this the best event ever! Intrigued? You should be…..stay tuned!

This week’s Lumen Legacy spotlight is on Trey Bernert (2018). Up until last semester, Trey had been attending Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, but decided that path wasn’t his path! He left NAU, is working and saving money to open his own ice cream shop “Starry Sky Creamery.” Family reports it’s been a fun change to see Trey’s inspiration, initiative and most importantly his passion for this new path. And as Trey reports “Bill Gates dropped out his first semester of junior year as well so my company will be the Microsoft of Ice Cream.”

Trey, if anyone is going to succeed at this it’s you – we’re with you 100% (and hopefully will score some free samples if we’re in AZ and pop by to visit.) Cheers to you, and thanks for checking in!

Other alumni students and families – we’d love to hear from you! Email LCHS@lumenchristiak.org to tell us what you’re up to these days.

Volunteer/Parent Share Hours Opportunities

Coming Soon! Parish Ambassadors to Speak at weekend Masses on Jan 29-30th about Lumen, the Second Collection for Catholic Schools, and the Gala

No Place like Home Gala – Dessert “Dash”

https://signup.com/go/ttHZkjz

Archangel Attic

http://rmd.me/K35tQofj0Vf