First Baptist Christian Academy • 7500 Fairmont Parkway • Pasadena, TX 77505 Tel: 281-991-9191 fbcatx.org

Dear FBCA Parents and Friends,

I hope everyone has a safe and refreshing Spring Break! When we return on March 20, we will have a very busy last 9 weeks! In addition to athletic events, many students will be participating in competitions for music, art, speech, and academic events. We are proud of our Warriors!! They are Winners! We have three very exciting events as soon as we return on March 20. Students in grades 7-12 will start classes in our new Secondary Building! You are invited to

a special Ribbon Cutting and Open House on Wednesday, March 22, at 2:15 pm. All our students in grades K-12 will be present. We will have our Pastor, Board members, and some dignitaries from the city present to join in the celebration. After a short ceremony, everyone will be able to walk through and see this great improvement for FBCA! It is beautiful!

Our host church, First Baptist, will have a FBCA Day on Sunday morning March 26! Again we will have an Open House for the New Building. The school ministry will be highlighted in both the 9:30 and the 11:00 services. All FBCA families are invited, especially if you do not have a church where you normally attend.

Be ready for some fun and fundraising at our annual FBCA Banquet and Auction to be held on Friday, March 31 at 6:00 pm. Proceeds will benefit our school-wide budget as well as our new Secondary Building! Plan to be involved!

May the Lord bless each of you! Mr. Cullins

First Baptist Christian Academy March 2017

From the Head of School March 21 TAPPS Solos and Small Ensemble Competition

March 22 Ribbon Cutting/Open House Report Card - 3rd Quarter

March 24 Southwest Regional Speech Meet at FBCA

March 26 FBCA Day at FBP

March 28 Dual Credit Meeting 6:30 PM

March 30 Junior & Senior Parents Meeting 6 PM

March 31 Spring Banquet & Auction 6 PM

April 3 - 7 Free Dress Week

April 4 - 7 Cheer Clinic and Tryouts

UPCOMING EVENTS

Free Dress Week As part of our annual fundraising, students

(Pk3-12th grade) may purchase a free dress week pass for $50.00 per student.

Free Dress Week : April 3rd– April 7th

Free Dress may be purchased in the Main

Office or by emailing:

jana.hobbs@fbcatx.org

Deadline to purchase: Friday, March 24th

The lunch option for Tuesdays will change from Luby’s to Murphy’s

Deli beginning March 21. Visit the school’s website for an updated

school menu .

SECONDARY NEWS ‐ Toni Shuman

Secondary is moving into our new facility!! So, with “D Day” approaching, please note the following:

PICK-UP/PARKING

As in the past, secondary students will meet their parents in the parking lot for after-school pick-up. The parking bay closest to the front of the Secondary Building will be used by faculty and staff. The next two are for student drivers. The fourth bay (just to the right of the gym when you are facing the building) will be for parents who are picking up students after school. Please park there and students will come to you rather than forming a line in front of the building and blocking First Baptist Drive.

In case of inclement weather, parents may approach the building from the gym and either pick up their student from the covered walkway in front of the gym or pull through the porte cochere at the front of the Secondary Building and exit toward Red Bluff.

Please be alert to cars in the elementary pick-up line and to secondary students walking toward cars or exiting from student parking areas.

ESC – MORNING

ESC will be available in the Secondary Cafetorium beginning at 6:45 in the mornings. Students entering the Secondary Building before 7:40 will report to the Cafetorium and sign in with ESC personnel. Those who are have detention or tutorials will sign in before reporting directly to the teacher indicated. Students who have athletic bags to drop off, may do so in the gym between 7:25 and 8:00.

ESC – AFTERNOON

Students not in tutorials are expected to exit the Secondary Building by 3:15. Athletes needing to access materials from their lockers before going home should do so before they leave the building at the end of the school day.

Students who are not picked up immediately after school and who are not in tutorials or supervised athletics may wait

outside the Secondary Building outside the Gym in ESC (normal fees apply) – Room S105 – until 3:55 (Those

still in secondary ESC at 3:55 will move to ESC in the elementary cafeteria).

Any student not under adult supervision who remains in the campus area at 3:55 must report to ESC in the elementary school cafeteria as the Secondary Building will be locked. This is a safety concern.

LOCKERS

All lockers come equipped with a combination lock. Junior high lockers are on the first floor while high school lockers are on the second floor. Students are expected to store all items in their locker. Athletic equipment will be stored in the gym and should not be brought into the building. Band instruments will be stored in the band hall. Only those backpacks that will fit into the baskets under the student desks are appropriate to bring to classrooms.

ELEMENTARY NEWS ‐ Jessica Tracy

I am so excited to see all the names of our students who have re-enrolled for the 2017-18 school year! We are blessed to have such wonderful students and families at FBCA. I am also thrilled to meet the many new families and students who are enrolling in our school. We are blessed that God continues to advance His kingdom as our school continues to grow!

Mrs. Tracy Elementary Principal Connor Shim won 1st place for

5th grade computation at the at the Area Math Olympics

Warrior Athle c News                 Coach Larsen and Coach Turner 

Warrior Events Warrior Happenings

C ongrats to our High School Boys Baseball and Girls Softball for winning the FBCA tournament we recently

hosted. The boys beat rival Brazosport in the finals to take 1st place, and the girls beat 6A Incarnate Word to take 1st place. Great job Warriors!

Junior High Baseball has put together nice back-to-back wins against Alvin Living Stone and St. John's. The boys are led by Coach Jay Bice, Coach Brian Evans, and Coach Robert Avery.

The Junior High Softball team had a nice first game of the year beating Beaumont Legacy 5-0. The girls are led by Coach Erin Quinones and Coach Janet Schmitz. Keep it up Warriors!

Track and Field is off to a great start as well; at the last invitational in Tomball, the girls finished 2nd overall as a team! Standouts for the girls include Kennedy Hazel in the 300 hurdles, Kyleigh Wingo in the triple jump, Karli Schuetzle in the triple jump, Jenna Patteson in the 100m dash,

Jazlyn Ramos in the relays, and Val Salinas in the 100m/200m dash.

Dual Credit Meeting for interested rising juniors, seniors, and their parents for Fall 2017 San Jacinto College enrollment – March 28 – 6:30 pm – Secondary Building Cafetorium.

Junior/Senior Parent Meeting – March 30 – Parents of Juniors at 6:00 with parents of Seniors joining at 6:30. Secondary Building – Room TBD. Topics include graduation reception, end-of year activities, 2018 Senior Trip.

April 3-7 – Cheer Clinic and tryouts for 2017-18 school year. Includes parents’ meeting April 3 at 6:30 in gym.

The 8th grade retreat has been rescheduled to April 21-22 .

First Baptist Christian Academy • 7500 Fairmont Parkway • Pasadena, TX 77505 Tel: 281-991-9191 fbcatx.org

    Staff Tes mony ‐ Alice Purcell 

B eing a part of the FBCA family has been an amazing adventure for all of us. Kathy and I always wanted a Christian education for our son John and when we

moved to La Porte, TX we found FBCA to be the place. John started in 4th grade and is currently in the 10th. How quickly time passes by when you look how far we have come.

Our journey to FBCA started at Lamar University where I met Kathy. I had completed my Bachelor’s in Secondary Education for Math and History and a Master’s in Computer Science while Kathy finished her Master’s in Deaf Education. We both believe in the importance of a strong education especially one with a Christian world view. We both grew up with Christian parents and are thankful for that as during that time we became Christians ourselves understanding the work of Christ for us. John to us was a miracle child with many difficulties surrounding his birth but God was always there and guided us all the way.

We have seen John grow with FBCA from a child to pre-teen, becoming a Christian, then a teenager to now an amazing young man. He has learned so much from being there and learning from many of the teachers and staff of the school. For us FBCA can be exciting, challenging, sometimes even a bit overwhelming with the rate of learning and activities that can occur, but we see this as an opportunity for all of us. We have worked as a team in partnership with his teachers, administrators, Grandpa and his Aunt Cathy. Each week we work together planning homework, reviewing for tests, memorizing and understanding God’s word, openly talking about our friends and relationships realizing the grace that our Father shows on us all.

Life will send explosive shells at my son but with his time at FBCA, his family as a team and a God who is more amazing

than I can say, many of those shells will appear empty because of all the time and heart spent preparing our son for his continued journey.

M y parents sent me to a Baptist kindergarten where I heard the gospel for the first

time. I believed everything the teacher told me and began to pray and try to be good. Sometimes I would ride the bus to Sunday School or get on the bus to go to VBS in the summer. Those experiences always raised my awareness about God, but since I was not going to church regularly and was not taught about God at home, I didn’t learn much about what the Bible said.

When I was in junior high something happened that frightened me, so I thought I should get baptized in case I died, so I did. My grandparents took me to church with them for a while.

As a high school senior, some youth group kids invited me to a youth retreat. I think I was saved before, but I really know that I trusted in Jesus as my Savior and not in “being good” for salvation at that point.

I backslid a lot in college, but after I got married, I attended church and really started to learn about what a relationship with Christ means. I started attending a very good Bible study and learned how rich God’s Word is. I became very involved in church after that and learned so much. I had the head knowledge, but not the heart knowledge yet because my faith had not been tested.

Then my dad died. My husband was working out of state and it was all a very big mess. I had prayed for my dad to get saved as long as I could remember. He had met a preacher a couple of years before he died and got saved. He confirmed that to me just a few weeks before he died when He told me that Jesus was his Savior. This sad, dark time was when God really showed me that He’s real and that His Word is true. I know that He will always be with me because He is. He gives me the strength to endure the hardest things. When I get hit by painful events, His faithfulness helps me to respond to Him in faithfulness. I trust Him because He has shown me that He is everything His Word says He is. I’m so grateful that God has had His hand on me my entire life.

Family Tes mony ‐ Michael & Kathy Claunch

 FBCA has three students who were recognized at the Houston Model UN Summit.     Ta ana Haddad  ‐ Recognized Delegate overall for her contribu ons in commi ee and General Assembly.   Joshua Fitzgerald ‐  Character Award, for overall conduct, a tude, helpfulness, and diplomacy.   Misty Woods ‐ Outstanding Delegate in the Economic and Social Commi ee.    

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