Announcements

For your long-term planning purposes, here are the major calendar dates for the next school year. We coordinate to a degree with the Douglas County School District (DCSD) calendar, but are unable to do so entirely with our later start. We have approximately the same number of school days within a shorter span. Parents with students at Lutheran and a DCSD school will notice LuHi has a slightly shorter (and different) Fall Break, two days at Easter, and other differences unique to Lutheran. The timing of our Fall Break has been based on a multi-state conference LuHi faculty attend to grow in our faith and professionally.

• New Student Orientation: August 14
• First Day of School (Freshmen & Sophomores): August 15
• First Day of School (Juniors & Seniors): August 16
• Fall Break: October 9-11 (Different than DCSD)
• Thanksgiving Break: November 27-29
• Christmas Break: December 19 - January 6
• School Resumes: January 7 (Tuesday)
• Martin Luther King Jr. Day (No School): January 20
• Presidents' Day Break: February 14-17
• Spring Break: March 17-21 (Aligns with DCSD)
• Good Friday & Easter Monday (No School): April 18 & April 21
• Last Day of School: May 21
• Graduation: May 21

Calendar Updates - There have been some changes and additions to our Academic Calendar. I wanted to share the link again with the most updated version. Please find our Academic calendar on our website under Current Family Information. Thanks for always following our website calendar as there can be changes during the year.

College-Ready Reading - Just checking in! How’s the reading going? Have you started? There’s still plenty of time if you haven’t yet. Families absolutely have my permission to be asking students about their progress. Please visit College-Ready Reading for more information. How about considering any reading accomplished in July as a bonus before August arrives? There’s no better time to start than today!

LuHi Car Show - On Saturday, July 20 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM, the LuHi Car Club will be hosting the 2nd Annual LuHi Car Show in the parking lot at school! I’m thankful to share that this car show is completely arranged by student members of the LuHi Car Club. There will be food, music, prizes, and awards (awards and door prizes handed out at 12:30 PM). The event is free and open to the public; there is a $5.00 entry fee for vehicles participating in the car show. If you have any questions, you may contact LuHi Car Club Advisor Mr. Jason Rogness at jason.rogness@lhsparker.org. Please stop by!

Seniors: With the permission of your parents/guardians, you are allowed to leave campus during your lunch and off-periods this year. You will need to have a permission form completed and signed by both you and a parent/guardian.

Please read through this form so that you understand the guidelines for leaving campus and requirements for maintaining this privilege. You will not be allowed to leave campus until we have this form on file so please fill it out as soon as you can and either email it back to the school, drop it off in the office, or bring it with you to your first day of classes.

Thriving Parents emails are sent twice a month with helpful resources. Being a teenager is a unique and challenging time of life. As you may well know, there are many things’ teens are dealing with and some are difficult for us to understand. In many cases, they are in uncharted territory. When you and I were growing up, many of us didn’t have a cell phone, social media, etc. Parenting today, is also unique and challenging since we are trying to lead them through things we didn’t deal with! The resources and research dealing with adolescence will be helpful as you continue to grow and work on your relationship with your teen. There will be ideas for parenting and discipling your son and/or daughter in addition to devotional thoughts that will offer ways to grow in our relationship with Jesus as well. The first email will be coming soon!

Thriving Parents Meetings (Open to all parents)

In my humble opinion, the most exciting resource we have is our monthly meetings! We meet on a Monday night once a month at Lutheran High from 7-8:00 PM in Room 032. We discuss parenting resources and topics (like identity, conflict, phones and social media) teens are facing from a Biblical perspective with time to share and pray together. Please consider coming at least one time to see what it is like! All parents are welcome!

The Goal of Thriving Parents is as follows: “Encouraging and strengthening parents through Christian fellowship and helpful resources. Monthly emails and meetings will include God’s Word, sharing, praying for each other, and discussing issues dealing with parenting and the culture surrounding our children.”

It is hard for me to explain how much I love the time we have together in our meetings. We are all broken people in need of God’s grace. This is a place you can experience this. If you are doing great and just want to meet the parents of the students and teammates who go to school with your child … please come. If you are wondering if you are the only one going through a tough time … come. Think about the perspective you can gain from being around other parents who have gone through it before and/or who are going through it with you. We would love to have you join us!

Here are the dates for this year:

• August 14
• September 18
• October 16
• November 13
• January 8
• February 5
• March 4
• April 8
• May 6

An Introduction

If we haven’t met, please allow me to introduce myself. God has blessed my wife, Sue and me with three children (38, 33 and 30) who are married to wonderful answers to prayer. We have seven grandchildren. I have been a theology teacher/professor/coach for 21 years at the high school level and 19 at the college level. I have my undergraduate degrees in Theology and Coaching. My master’s degree is in Family Life Education (focusing on psychology and specializing in parenting and life stages). I tell you these things not to impress you, but to let you know Sue and I have walked, stumbled, and limped along the parenting road you are on. We are all unique in our brokenness but my hope is that we can share our journey of life together.

Thanks for taking the time to read this! Please mark your calendar for Thriving Parents Meetings and I hope to see you there! We are praying for you!

Campus Ministry Director, Marty Kohlwey