Maranatha Christian Academy

M ark your calendars and plan to attend MCA's spring auction dinner on Friday, March 23, 2018, in the gym on the north campus. Our co-leaders of our spring dinner are elementary parents, Kim Ciston and Stephanie Marks, and they are working with a group of parents to plan an awesome auction to raise money toward meeting the operational needs of our school. If you are interested in getting involved, we need you! When it's time to purchase tickets for the spring auction dinner, we are going to be encouraging each family to buy tickets for themselves and for their pastor and their spouse, or friends they know who do not yet have their children at Maranatha. We want to introduce the community to the great things going on at Maranatha. Word of mouth is the best way to share the story of Maranatha! We are hoping to involve our awesome students in this event as much as possible: • Inviting one of the choirs or the band to perform • Having athletic teams serve the tables in their jerseys • Having a class run a babysitting service in our classrooms as a fundraiser for the class and a convenience for our families with young children • Having a class run a soda/pop concession • Having them help with the silent auction and live auction items • Having the film class design and produce a video about Maranatha as a promotional video We are planning for the following categories of auction items: CLASS BASKET RAFFLE Each class will choose a theme and donate a basket for a raffle auction. Basket theme ideas include: family game night, couples night out, I love books, dinner and a movie, tea party, Chiefs, Royals, KC Sporting, all things Maranatha, heading to college, the ultimate baker, spa, coffee, gift card, travel, gardening, and picnic basket. In KinderPrep and elementary, each classroom is asked to donate a basket; in secondary school, each grade level will be asked to donate a basket. Once your child's class has chosen their theme, you'll hear from your child's teacher what type of donations they are looking for and they'll be looking for a parent to spearhead this activity and then to assemble the basket and wrap it in cellophane for the auction dinner. The classes will receive 25 percent of the value of the tickets that are placed in their class basket, to be used for items to benefit that classroom. Thanks for contacting your child's teacher and helping with this class project! DESSERT AUCTION Calling all bakers! We are looking for tasty and creative dessert dishes to be donated for our dessert auction. These desserts will be auctioned off at the dinner. Every person who attends the auction dinner will receive a voting token. The baker of the dessert that receives the most voting tokens will receive the honor of being the Eagle Baker of the Year! SILENT AND LIVE AUCTION We need your help soliciting businesses to donate items that we can auction off in the silent auction and via our live auction at the spring auction dinner. Who do you know who you can approach and ask for a donation? Think of the businesses you frequent and ask if they'd be willing to donate items to benefit Christian education. We have tax-exempt donation letters we can provide to you when asking businesses. We're looking for donations of merchandise, trips, lift tickets, sports memorabilia and athletic game opportunities, cars, service industry services, homemade items, items the students help to make, quilts made of MCA T-shirts, a sports team to provide a service like prepare a three-course meal in your home or do yard work, lessons of many kinds (shooting, fishing, piloting), plane tickets or plane rides, and much, much more! Please consider who you can reach out to and ask for a donation! Andrea House '01 and her husband, Dustin, have two children, Melina and Cameron, and live in Shawnee, Kan. She is a stay-at-home mom and temps from time to time as a dental hygienist. Email: andreahouse10@gmail.com Kimberly Conner '03 is an OB/GYN physician for the Air Force. She received a scholarship from USAF for medical school and now serves them. Her first station is Aviano Air Base in Italy, and she hopes to be stationed in Germany in 2018. Kim and her husband, Daniel, welcomed Eliana Iris in December 2016. Krystle Barnett Peinado '11 and her husband, Jon, were married in February 2016. Krystle graduated from Haskell Indian Nations University in 2015 with a teaching degree and is working on her master's degree in special education at KU. She teaches kindergarten on base at Ft. Leavenworth, where her husband is stationed. Emerald Barnett '13 graduated from Central Christian College in May with a business degree in organization leadership. Email: barnett.emerald@gmail.com Caleb Henderson '13 graduated in May from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., with a bachelor's degree in political science and minor in economics. He has been accepted to George Washington Law School and was admitted to Georgia Tech for their master's program. MARANATHA FAMILY NEWS (Continued on page 4) Left: Students dressed up for Homecoming in September. Right: Maranatha started out the school year with a Color Battle for secondary students.

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