Lumen News – January 28th, 2022
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.
● St. Benedict Youth nights are Wednesdays 7-9 p.m. All are welcome!
Happy Birthday this weekend to Joseph Moriarty and Dominic Alfano!
Last Friday students made 181 Sandwiches for Brother Francis Shelter!! Thank you for all your donations; we will be making sandwiches again today in the Upper Room at 1:00 p.m. All are welcome to join us!
- For the repose of the soul of Alec W. Thomson, grandfather of Liam and XinMei
- For those experiencing homelessness, hunger, and isolation especially during these temperatures
- For those affected by the Madagascar floods, Texas wildfires, and Tonga eruption.
- For those in the Philippines suffering from the aftermath of floods and landslides
- For the health and safety of our school families
- For an end to the pandemic
- For unity in our country
Archangel Sports:
Middle School Volleyball
Jamboree Friday, Feb 4th (Location/Time TBD)
High School Girls Basketball
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!
First up – there’s a few tickets left in the AK Airlines Raffle – scoop one (or two) up for $50/each, they’re worth $1,250 (each!) and good for anywhere AK Airlines flies. Pretty good return on investment! They’re not going to last much longer, so register today, to buy: https://lchs2022.ggo.bid
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 
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** Keep watching our Facebook Page for more information about……everything!
We’ve still got a few JBER spots left for students who would like to put some time in serving those – who serve us! (Parents are also welcome if you would like to earn Share Hours.) As a reminder, this will be on Wednesday, February 2nd from 3:40-7:00pm at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. The school bus will be departing from Lumen Christi at 3:40pm and will return to Lumen at 7:00pm. Students may stay after school, as we will provide food to those who volunteer. Let’s encourage our Lumen students to jump on this amazing opportunity! See Mrs.Guzman to sign-up or send an email to lchs@lumenchristiak.org
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
Volunteer/Parent Share Hours Opportunities
No Place like Home Gala – Dessert “Dash” & Gift Card Sign Up
Archangel Attic