John Christman to be new COSLHS Principal

Mr. John Christman, currently teaching at Lutheran High School, Little Rock, AR, has accepted the call to be Christ Our Savior's new principal. Mr. Christman will be installed and assume his duties in July.
On Saturday January 16th, Mr. Christman met with teachers, staff, board members, and area pastors to get to know them and worked on defining the values that were important to the future of COSLHS.
He will be making regular visits to the area to meet with families, students, congregations, and pastors.

*The girls' volleyball season is under way. Our performance has improved with each game. We have won several matches, but have yet to put a win under our belt. We feel that a win is in our near future. Our home opener is this Thursday, October 8th at 6:15 p.m. We open against Marissa High School.

*FBLA is selling Little Caeser's Pizza kits, for a club fundraiser through October 9th.

*FBLA members: Hali McKenzie and Sarah Twitty are having a bake sale at Chester Walmart on October 30th to help raise money to attend NFLC (National Fall Leadership Conference) in Orlando, Florida next month.

*For October 16th at 8:15 p.m. Student Council is putting together a movie night to take place after the girls' volleyball game against Madison. Students family and friends are invited to come along to watch The Nightmare Before Christmas.

*Business and Service class are working on putting together a skit devotion to present to local feeder school's throughout the school year. They are also working on plans for the 8th grade visitation day on October 30th where students from local feeder schools come to our school, spend the day with a high school student, and get a taste of what student life is like.

*Math Team participated in several competitions. At the last competition, junior Ben Laufer received a fifth place award in the individual division for juniors.

*Basketball conditioning for boys and girls starts on Saturday, October 10th at 9:00 a.m.

1st Month of School

• We have completed our fourth week of school and we are enjoying the third week in our new building. The building is very nice and much appreciated by the students and staff.
  
• The dedication of the new building went very well and there were over 300 people in attendance.
  
• Unfortunately, our principal, Mr. Hill hasn't been able to enjoy the majority of the beginning of the school year with us. He is recovering from several broken bones due to a fall. Please keep him in your prayers.
• Congratulations to Mr. Zweigart! He recently presented his Master's thesis to the review board at SIUE and will be awarded his Master's degree in engineering soon!
• The girls volley-ball team played their first game against New Athens High School on September 9th. Although they lost, the team played very well.
• There are new work stations being installed in the science room and they are looking fantastic. We are still waiting on the counter tops and sink and they should be arriving soon. They are tiling the unfinished classroom and it should be ready soon.
• We are planning an eighth grade visitation for October 30. If you know of any students that would like to attend please contact the school office for more information.
• Welcome YoonMin Kim! She is from South Korea and we are enjoying getting to know her.
• We welcomed a new mascot for the Math Team this week. Theta the Beta fish now resides in Mr. Zweigart's classroom

Laborers for Christ

Check out the story in the Randolph County Herald Tribune about the faithful men and women of Laborers for Christ who are building our new facility. What a great story. Even more, what a great bunch of people. You can read the story on our web site or visit http://www.randolphcountyheraldtribune.com/homepage/x695081268/Laborers-For-Christ-work-at-COSLHS.

Don't forget to mark Aug. 30 on your calendar when we will dedicate our new school and have an open house,

Welcome to our new blog

Welcome to the new blog for Christ Our Savior Lutheran High School. This blog will be updated regularly by the students of COSLHS. If you have any comments or suggestions, email them to blog@coslhs.org.