Merry Christmas & Happy New Year from Miss Heather's family

We're getting ready for Christmas!

How about you?

Throughout The Heiskell School, teachers and children are bustling about getting ready to celebrate the birth of our King this Christmas. Check out what we've been up to lately.

Making ornaments and trimming our tree.

Creating our very own little town of Bethlehem.

Reading the Christmas story found in Luke 2, telling of Christ's birth.

Painting, coloring, cutting, just to name a few.

And, we've also been practicing for our preschool Christmas performance. I hope you already have your plans in place to attend because boy are you in for a treat! It is so precious to hear these children tell and sing of the birth of our Savior.

"For today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord."

Luke 2:11

BirThDaYs

We celebrated this handsome fella's birthday this week in pre-kindergarten.

He even had a special guest join him to help celebrate. Thank you, Mrs. R., for the delicious birthday treats!

Happy birthday, to you!

Happy birthday, to you!

Happy birthday, God bless you!

Happy birthday to you!

Christmas cards for others.

Surprisingly, Christmas isn't all about us, though we surely do a great job of making it out to be. It's about God, who had not spoken for 400 years, who chose the most extraordinary way to show His love to His people by speaking through a prophet, Zacharias, and using an obedient teenage girl to bring forth life. It's about a baby who left a perfectly heavenly home to rescue us from darkness. A baby who was born in a humble manger on a dark, wintry night. A baby, God's perfect son. A baby who would one day grow up to be a man, who would walk up a lonely hill to be hung on a cross, suspended between heaven and earth, so that we, you and me, might have life. Abundant life, eternal life. Maybe Christmas is about us after all, about His love for us. About Him choosing to send His son for us. But do you know the greatest thing about Christmas, it isn't just for us. It's for everyone! For God so loved the world, the Bible says. At Heiskell this Christmas, we are spreading that Christmas message to others through Christmas cards. Will you pray and ask God how you can share the joy, the hope, the love of Christ with others this Christmas season?

And the light shone in the darkness, and the darkness cannot overcome it. John 1:8

Thankfully, Jesus came to be the light of the world!

These precious students in my pre-kindergarten class are hard at work making Christmas cards for others.

Our prayer for these cards is that they will minister to the hearts of others.

We pray that Christ's message of love will reach down deep and touch hearts that have been hardened to His redeeming love.

For a child will be born to us,

a son will be given to us;

And the government will rest on His shoulders;

And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor,

Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 9:6

BirThDaYs

We've celebrated another birthday girl in pre-kindergarten, and boy does she have a sweet smile!

Happy birthday, to you!

Happy birthday, to you!

Happy birthday, God bless you!

Happy birthday, to you!

BirThDaYs

Check out the smile on this birthday girl!

Happy birthday, to you.

Happy birthday, to you.

Happy birthday, God bless you.

Happy birthday, to you!