Tonight is the last Wednesday night that the current 8th grade students will officially be attending. Why you may ask. Well, our 8th grade students are graduating junior high. As of Sunday, they will officially be 9th grade students, which means they will be high school students. Yes, our young students are growing into young men & women. It is such a blessing to see this year after year. It's fun to go back and look at old pictures from when they were in 6th grade and then see their 8th grade pictures. The transformations they go through are amazing. Some of them don't even look like their 6th grade pictures at all.
Like life, everything changes, everything grows up. All you can do is teach them what is right and wrong and let them make their own choices. Although they are still minors and still under their parents guidance, they are beginning to make choices which will effect their lives. They are beginning to be more independent of their parents. They are beginning to be young adults who make choices for themselves; choices like what they want to do when they grow up, who they want to be, what they want to try. Although they are moving up to high school, they still need guidance, prayer and encouragement. They still need to know that God loves them and wants the best for them. They still need their parents there helping them along.
But that is in the near future. Tonight, while we will look to the future, we will also relish & celebrate the present, and remember the past. Tonight, Crash will be more laid back. We will hang out and have fun. All parents are welcome to join us in the Loft at 7:40 PM to come celebrate with us as we say goodbye to all 12 of our 8th grade students, and remember all the fun times we had in the past year. I hope to see all of you there.
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