Evangel Christian School is so proud to have had Mr. Ken Johnson, a man who loves the Lord and has also been very successful in his career as a NFL Football Player with the Cincinnati Bengals, come and speak to our Middle School and High School Students. Mr. Johnson donated his time on his recent trip to New York to come in for the morning hosting an assembly where he passionately shared how his faith in Christ has been the rock when all other things have come and gone. He encouraged students to seek the Lord for their lives, to commit to excellence in everything they do and yes God wants them to be a success, but to put God first and He will orchestrate their steps. Mr. Johnson has a true gift of engaging young minds, he had no bells or whistles or videos, he spoke to our students as a father and grandfather in the faith and you could literally hear a pin drop in the auditorium of 400+ students. WOW is all we can say! Mr. Johnson also encouraged the children if they have not yet given their lives to the Lord to pray with him and he led them in a salvation prayer. The morning ended with Mr. Johnson signing hundreds of trading cards and taking pictures with the students. It was a really precious time, thank you to Mr. Johnson for loving and giving back to the community and especially to the children of Evangel Christian school. A big thank you also to Pastor Lee Rouson a very special friend of Evangel Christian School for making this day possible. We also cannot forget to thank Sports World for all they do for children all over the country. God bless each of you in your work, as you are passionate about what we are passionate about…. children!!!!
Project Citizen is a civics education program develped by the Center for Civics Education. This program “introduces and trains students in the methods and procedures used in political processess.” the goal is to help students develop a “committment to active citizenship.”
Grades 5, 6, and 8 spent the past 3 months researching problems in their communities and solutions. From their research, they developed public policy and developed an action plan. Many of the students stated that Project Citizen has help them become more aware of the problems that their communities face and has given them a method to address them.
THANK YOU FDNY Community Relations team!!! Evangel Christian School is so thankful…for the 3rd year in a row the FDNY has sent a community specialist to teach a fun workshop about a very serious issue…. fire safety. The morning started off with a real FDNY retired firefighter coming in and meeting with our Prek3 through 5th grade students, he brought in his uniform and special tools as well as hosting a Question and Answer session for the students. The morning ended with a wonderful video about fire safety encouraging students to check with and talk to their parents about a plan to evacuate, stop drop and roll and never touch matches or a lighter and make sure you have batteries in your smoke detector. Every Student left with a gift from the FDNY of a coloring book or afire safety facts page. We are so grateful for this completely free course the FDNY provides for our school! BE COOL ABOUT FIRE SAFETY is a message we all need to keep in mind!!!
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Singing…..Dancing…..Drama……Poetry…….Worship……Fashion Show………..Flags……..and using our talents to honor the Lord. Our Spring Celebration was an amazing time and our student worked so very hard. Tuesday, May 22nd will be an evening to remember! A bid Thank You to all those who made this evening so very special.
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During our Spring Celebration our student, who had been working all year, got to “show off” their fashions. During our Fashion Electives students design and then create clothing for our fashion show. The students worked very hard and the Fashion Show was a huge success.
ART FAIR
We want to thank everyone for your support of Evangel’s ANNUAL ART SHOW on TUESDAY APRIL 3RD.
It was a very special afternoon as we celebrated all our young artists at Evangel. We believe it is critical to keep the arts in the schools! We are in a time when art programming is being cut from many public schools due to budget cuts, etc… at Evangel we are committed to continue with the arts programming even with our tight budgets(we operate on ½ the budget of the public school system)
Thank you to everyone who came out and supported the event… through touring and viewing the Art, or making an anonymous donation to our collection box, participating in the silent auction of a few pieces of student artwork or just buying a cupcake in support of the art program! We appreciate you! A special thank you to our volunteer judges, some were our teachers and to keep it really interesting we brought in three special friends from the community who donated their time to be judges…. Janet Banks of our Foundation For ECS Scholarship, Inc. Board, Ms. Erika White a supporter and friend from Evangel Church, and Albert Popa a famous Christian Painter. Of the hundreds of students that participated in the our Art Show, 28 students artwork was voted best and went on to the ACSI Regional Art Show . At that Art show many of our students received ribbons and two of our students were named BEST IN SHOW , 2nd grade John Costa and 8th grade Christine DeArruda. We are so proud of all of our artists!!!!
In addition to enriching the students love for Art Appreciation and extending goodwill throughout the school the afternoon raised $400 for the Art Department and $40 for our Middle School Magazine production! Special thanks to our PTF- Parent Teacher Fellowship they made a generous $100 donation, they told us they were so thrilled to see another outlet supporting Art appreciation at Evangel School. Of course the biggest thank you goes to Mrs. Bueno for coordinating this very special event. We love you Mrs. Bueno!
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Ms. Gloria Gaynor
Academic Fair 2012
Over 1,000 people got a chance to attend our Annual Academic Fair on Thursday, March 22nd from 7pm to 9pm. Each student from Prek 3 through 12th grade designed and inquiry project which included a Project, Project Board, Research Research Paper and Presentation. Projects covered a gamut of Subjects: Science, History, English, Bible, Math, Sports, Home Economics, Technology, Fashion, etc…
The night was filled with excitement, smells of food from different countries, dances, singing, and so much more. We were honored to have with us Ms. Gloria Gaynor, famous for the song “I will survive”. Also, Mr. Michael Strawberry, brother of Darryl Strawberry, a former major-leauger, was able to attend and spend some time with our students. We are seriously honored to have had all the parents and students, families, friends, alumni, associates and partners that were able to attend.
We are so very proud of all of our students and we thank all the parents, staff and students for all of their hard work.
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On Monday, January 30, 2012, the popular Christian Attorney Mr. Daniel Buttafuoco came with his mobile museum of Bibles and sacred manuscripts dating back hundreds of years. It was very interesting how he explained these archaeological items to prove the validity of Scripture. We had all three twelve grade classes present for the exhibit and presentation. The students had the opportunity to observe to the documents. He went on to explain the importance of having a good foundational knowledge of the scriptures; therefore, peers cannot shake or dismantle/question ones faith. Finally, there was some time given for questions and answers. We are so thankful to Mr. Buttafuoco and Mr. Mikhail for investing in students and donating their time to come to Evangel Christian School!
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In honor of Evangel Christian School’s 25th Anniversary we received a beautiful letter from our local Councilman Mr. Jimmy Van Bramer congratulating us for our faithfulness with children in the community.(Copy of the letter is on the homepage of our website) Then in December Mr. Van Bramer and his Excecutive Finance Manager Matthew came to tour our school and meet our students and our leadership team and did a walk through to see and hear first hand all we are doing, especially focusing our plans to build four more floors for our High School opening the doors for hundreds of students in his constituency and our community. We are so thankful that Mr. Bramer came to encourage us in our good work with children and that he is interested in the children and families at ECS! Thank you Mr. Van Bramer from all of us at Evangel Christian School!
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November 4th was an evening full of excitement, creativity, joy, love, and passion for Christian Education. Nearly 300 guests gathered to celebrate this monumental event……….25 years of service to the students and parents of New York City. This was a time to give God all the honor and glory for His faithfulness to ECS.
Our internatinal students performed on the violin, shared testimonies about how they found Jesus, and students shared a beautiful worship song with our guests. Rev. Michael Faulkner, a former NY Jets football player and was the 2010 Republican nominee for US Representative for NY’s 15th Cong. Dist. shared how happy he was that his daughter is attending Evangel and that the values that he teches at home are reinforced at school.
Our special speaker, Mr. Samuel Chand, a motivational speaker on leadership, shared about pouring our lives into our students and making a difference. What a blessing Mr. Chand was and he spurred us on to greatness.
We are so very thankful to our Foundation Board, Foundation Committee, staff and students for all their hard work in making this such a huge success. We are humbled to be part of what GOd is doing at Evangel and are excited to see what He has in stire for us!
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