9/23/22

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View this email in your browser OCA NEWS AND UPDATES PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF THESE UPCOMING IMPORTANT EVENTS: September 23 Encounter Conference Sign-up Deadline September 29 Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser October 13 Open House The deadline to register for Encounter is TODAY! If your student(s) plan to attend, please complete THIS ONLINE FORM as soon as possible so we can secure lodging and pricing. Spaghetti Dinner ticket order forms and money are due back by MONDAY! Tickets will be sent home with students on Tuesday. Seating options: 5pm or 7pm Take-Out options: 4:30pm pickup or 6:30pm pickup Adult Meal: $10 Child Meal (12 and under): $5 Gluten Free Meal: $10 This year we are testing an online ticket option, so you could also share the link below to friends and family who would like to purchase tickets online. Thank you so much for your help with this fundraiser. These events are only ever successful because we have such a supportive community of families. We look forward to dining with you on the 29th! ORDER TICKETS Putting together 50 Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes is exhausting! Please help us get rid of them before the next 50 come!   Our 10th grade Bible class has 50 Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes ready to be picked up and packed for a needy child, and 50 more are on their way.  Please feel free to stop in to the school and pick up one or more boxes. So what do you do once you’ve picked up your boxes?  Go to: https://www.samaritanspurse.org/operation-christmas-child/pack-a-shoe-box/ This website has information on what items can be sent in your box, as well as box labels and other information. If you’d like to track where your box(es) go, you can pay for your shipping($10) online and get a code that will let you follow your shoebox.  If you are not a computer person, we will have labels and instruction sheets you may pick up.  Please return your filled shoeboxes to OCA on or before November 14th, and let us know which classroom is represented when you drop off your boxes.  The class that brings in the most filled shoeboxes will get the opportunity to silly string Mr. Kropp, our PE teacher! Please consider sending in $10 with your shoebox to cover other costs that Samaritan’s Purse incurs in the process of getting these boxes to their destinations.   Anything but a Backpack Day