Over 400 grandparents visited the ACS campus on Friday, November 17 for our annual Grandparent Appreciation Day. Chief School Administrator Karen Oblen and Christian Loeb, a school parent and member of the Board of Directors, welcomed the grandparents to the all-school chapel program and thanked them for loving and supporting their grandchildren. Mr. Ed Paone, the keynote speaker who is an alumni parent and now has a grandson, Tyler, in kindergarten, shared how he and wife Sue have been involved in ACS for many years and are so thankful for the godly, Christian faculty and staff who made a lasting impact on their children’s lives. “This school exists to continually point our children to a life that matters, that has purpose, and away from a life that is shallow and empty,” Paone said. He encouraged the grandparents to join him in supporting ACS. “Your prayers, your time, your financial resources will all be well used here by God,” Paone said. During the chapel program, ACS students from preschool through high school praised God through musical presentations and Bible readings. After the chapel program, the grandparents visited various classrooms where their grandchildren proudly shared examples of their classroom projects and gave them hand-made gifts.
The PreK4 classes recited from memory Psalm 100:4 and the 4th grade classes recited Psalm 119:9-16. The 4th and 5th grade students in Elementary Band performed two songs. As a sneak preview from their upcoming Christmas concert on December 5, the Middle School and High School Chorales performed two songs. At the end of the program, the 5th grade Worship Team got everyone on their feet to join them in singing and doing movements to “Our God.” Several members of the high school worship band presented an offertory and senior student chaplain Mariyah Black closed the chapel in prayer.
After visiting their grandchilden in the classrooms, the grandparents also had the opportunity to visit he Scholastic Book Fair in the school library, see the Shoreline Model Railroad Club’s model train Christmas display, and shop for bargains in the Cougar Closet Thrift Shop. Additional photos from Grandparents Day will be posted in a gallery under the Events tab on the school website after November 20.
