“You are here, Stay with me”
By Cathy Wang
When I was a little kid, I had a dream.
I love singing, I love music.
When I was a little kid, I thought it was easy.
So I asked dad:”Can I be a singer?” or “Can I be a pianist?”
And dad smiled and said to me:”Yes, you can, honey. ”
After that time, I began to work hard .
When the other kids were playing games,
I was playing the piano.
When they were making fun, I was studying.
Why? Because that’s my dream.
When I grown up, I just knew that it was not easy to make the dream come true.
Many people around me said you cannot do this!
I failed, one time, two times, three times, even more………
I’ve cried, I’ve been depressed, but I never give up!
Because I know, God! You’ve been here with me all the time!
Here! Inside my heart!
Even how alone I am, even how sad I am, even how I failed
You will always be my side; you will always hear my prayer; and you will always give me your strength!!
That’s the dream you gave me!
That’s what my life is gonna be!
Maybe no one will know it, how I spend the nights.
I cannot sleep, I see the stars in the sky, they are so bright and lively, and I begin to pray,
For a new day will be coming.
Anyone will fail;
Anyone will do the wrong thing;
So why can’t I cry?
Why can’t I try after I failed?
Actually I have never been alone, I never lost my ways.
Because what?
Because God you are here, stay with me.
I never saw you, I never touched you.
But——–
I can feel you, you are in the deep of my heart.
You are here, stay with me.
So as usual, today’s night is also cold; and the stars are also shinning in the sky;
I close my eyes and smile.
A tear from eyes drop down across my face, my heart.
Not for sad, it’s for grateful and thankfulness;
For I know, I finally found the reason I can keep my dream.
It’s you, My God! I’ll praise you God!
All Middle School Social Studies classes have begun to work on a civics education program called Project Citizen. An inquiry-based program, Project Citizen helps to develop the knowledge and skills needed to become active citizens in order to work to make their communities better.
Grade 6 and 7 – Students continue to learn reading strategies to help digest informational text. Inquiry-based learning has been introduced as well as a number of hands-on projects, simulations, and games. Our lessons are cross-curriculuar, incorporating English, Science, Art, Math, and more!
Grade 8 – Students will be working on the New York City Exit Project in Social Studies for the month of November. Students will investigate a topic within the Progressive Movement in depth. This will allow students to experience immersion in a social studies topic, as well as question, investigate, and present a well-researched project.
New Vocabulary
The beginning of school has been quite exciting in ESL with over fifty students from all over the world acclimating to a Christ centered school. The Middle School and High school students have been increasing their conversational English through group activities related to their workbooks. Spiritual Emphasis Week became an impetus for many students to learn for the first time words many of us take for granted such as sanctuary, redemption, praise, glory and audacity. It also became a special time to learn how to question and write reflectively. Our latest projects were for International Week; students made presentations with either posters or power points describing where they grew up, comparing and contrasting their hometown with New York City, and predicting where they will be in ten years. The best part was listening to the students ask questions in English about each other’s hometown. It was very enriching for all and enlightening to me.
Mrs. Kemp
Reading Strategies
Students continue to learn reading strategies to help digest informational text. Inquiry-based learning has been introduced as well as a number of hands-on projects, simulations, and games. Our lessons are cross-curriculuar, incorporating English, Science, Art, Math, and more!
Miss Campanali
Project Citizen
All Middle School Social Studies classes have begun to work on a civics education program called Project Citizen. An inquiry-based program, Project Citizen helps to develop the knowledge and skills needed to become active citizens in order to work to make their communities better.
Miss Campanali
International Week at Evangel was filled with diversity an a unique blend of rich cultures. Over 73 different nationa are represented at Evangel and how awesome it is to share about our heritage with eachother.
Each day of the week was filled with something new… from wearing the colors of our flags, to country costumes, to food and desserts from our homelands. Each new student gets tpplace a marker in our wall map to represent where they are form.
We are so blessed at Evangel and we thank God for blessing us with such diversity.
Please see “Galleries” for some fantastic pictures.
Liberty Science Center was a blast. We had students learning about the passing of communicable diseases. Students were able to walk through a simulated sneeze, ride a subway car that showed the students how easily diseases would pass from one area of the world to another. We also had students take the challenge to protect their bodies from diseases in the form of a video game. Of course the students were really well behaved while learning about diseases. (7th grade covers life science.)
Please see “Galleries” for some wonderful pics.
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“Evangel Newsletter”
October 26th to the 30th was Spirtual Emphasis week at Evangel. Students had an amazing week during our Spiritual Emphasis week. Our younger students learned how God loves them just the way they are. They alsocompleted crafts and sang songs each day with our theme, “Panadamania.” The students are continuing to learn that God is “wild” about us! Our older students had an amazing week as our speakers, Ron and Heather Rhoads flew in for the week to share the love of God through the Word and song. Many students responded to the message that was given each day and we are blessed as a staff to see the seeds being planted in our students’ lives.
Please check out “Galleries” for some amazing pictures.
Very Creative Students
With originality and creativity, students produced their own variety of several poems using many techniques such as simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, rhyme, alliteration, and onomatopoeia. Seventh graders also researched and wrote persuasive essays about the influence of watching television. They enjoyed verbally debating one another. Finally, students read a portion of John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress and viewed an animated version of the famous allegory. Each student engaged in discussion to compare the text with the film, as well as expressing in written form his or her own spiritual applications.
Mrs. Foster