"In Him we live and move and have our being." Acts 17:28

Each breath we breathe is an opportunity to give thanks for our breath and for the Breath of Life, who breathes life in us. Each sip of water we take gives us opportunity to give thanks for the One who satisfies our thirst with His Living Water. Each bite of bread we take gives us opportunity to give thanks for the Bread of Life, who feeds us with His life through the Lord's Supper.

Oh give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, for His steadfast love endures forever! Psalm 107:1

Please join us in praying and thanking God for the following schools this week:

TLC Lutheran Preschool, Casa Grande, AZ

Shield of Faith Christian School, El Monte, CA

St. Paul’s Lutheran School and Preschool, San Diego, CA 

Below are photos from TLC Lutheran Preschool, Casa Grande, AZ:

Below are photos from St. Paul’s Lutheran School and Preschool,

San Diego, CA:

All School picture for spirit week showing our Enduring Faith theme shirts

Our Girl's Volleyball A team won the silver bracket League Championship!

4th grade led chapel on Moses and the Plagues of Egypt

Preschool "Bikes and Bubbles" fundraiser

 Preschool 4-year-old building

Preschool creation chapel

Our annual PSD Service Day is next Wednesday, November 20. We can't wait to hear about how your school serves in your community. Be sure to share photos with us!

When: November 24-26, 2024 

Where: Sheraton Phoenix Downtown, Phoenix, AZ

Theme: All One – Ephesians 4:1-7

Conference website

Access the Breakout Sessions section on the conference website for a listing of presenter information and listing of breakout sessions being offered.

DOWNLOAD THE APP

We are excited to announce that the app for the All Workers Conference 2024, powered by Guidebook, is available for download. With this resource, you will be able to view all the workshops, exhibitors, maps, share contact information, upload photos, build your own schedule, and more. As the conference approaches, additional information will be added. 

Get started here: https://builder.guidebook.com/g/awc2024/

If prompted, use this passphrase: 1517

If you are on a computer, click the Download the App button and scan the QR code with your phone. If you are reading this on your phone, locate the Download app icon on the resulting webpage.

Stop by the Conference Registration table if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you soon!

REMEMBER YOUR THANKOFFERING

Each year at our annual educators’ conference, we receive a Thankoffering that is 100% used to fund scholarship requests for students of full-time church workers enrolled as undergraduates in one of the Concordia Universities who have declared a full-time church work major. This year we will continue this practice, but it won’t be taken as an offering at the All Workers Conference. Instead, we are asking you to mail a check to the PSD with your Thankoffering. This offering is a suggested donation of $1 for every year of service you have been blessed to serve in Lutheran education. We will be collecting these donations throughout November through December 15. You are still encouraged to collect this offering as a staff and submit it together! 

Please use this invoice to send your check or checks. Also, please be sure that THANKOFFERING is in the memo line. It might interest you to know that over just the last 10 years, $44,034.44 has been gifted to this scholarship fund and it has supported 91 scholarships for students to pursue their Calling as full-time church workers. (The total amount is greater than this, as this offering has been taken for decades, but this is a picture of the past 10 years.)

AWC MASS CHOIRS

You are invited to join the Mass Choirs for the 2024 PSD All Workers Conference!

We have two exciting opportunities for you to join in worship through song at this year’s ALL WORKERS CONFERENCE! There will be a Mass Choir Praise Team for adults, performing at the Mass Event on Sunday night, November 24, where you'll join the band in singing some wonderful songs and hymn arrangements. Additionally, we’re inviting a Kids' Choir (grades 3-8) to sing one song during the Divine Service on Monday morning, November 25, and we would love to have you join us!

Resources for learning the songs and rehearsal times will be provided after you sign up, and we promise it will be a fun and fulfilling experience for everyone involved. Don’t miss the chance to be a part of something special—sign up through the form below!

Please contact Matt Preston (mpreston@cglchurch.org) with questions.

PSD All Workers Conference Adult or Kids Mass Choir Signup

We are excited to share with you this month’s praise report from Unknown Nations, our 2024-2025 Hearts for Jesus recipient. Please take a minute to read how Abshir has been changed by the power of the Gospel shared with him through the Treasure in his country of Somalia, the largest unreached people group in the Horn of Africa. We hope that reading these stories each month is an encouragement for you to promote this year’s Hearts for Jesus project in your schools. Can you think of anything more critical and crucial than supporting the sharing of the Gospel to all who have never heard? If you haven’t yet made your commitment as a school to this year’s Hearts for Jesus mission project, you can find more information to use in all classrooms, preschool through high school, on the Hearts for Jesus page on our website. Please join us on this mission critical project!

What a blessing to share with you how your Hearts for Jesus donations collected in the 2022-2023 school year for Hope and Care Outreach continue to have an impact on this wonderful ministry! The class of 2024 from Hope Lutheran High School had 53 graduates! Of those, three graduates were from the Hope and Care Home, which was a recipient of the scholarship monies supported by our PSD schools’ donations! Additionally, one of the other schools supported by these scholarship funds reported 11 baptisms in the month of October! Hope and Care Outreach is also celebrating a long-awaited permit from the government to begin construction of Hope FM Radio Station! This will be the first Christian FM radio station in the area. What a joy and blessing to have continuous songs and messages that inspire HOPE through the truth of God’s Word ringing through the airwaves! 

Click HERE to read the November CAPSO E-Mailer. In this issue:

• Loffman v. California Department of Education
• IEP Preparation Only Required at Request of Parents for Private School Students
• US Supreme Court Won't Hear Michigan Ban on State Funds for Private Schools
• AB 1821 Signed Into Law: Social Sciences and Treatment of Native Americans
• Supreme Court May Hear Oklahoma Religious Charter School Case
• Emergency Preparedness Trainings Available to Private Schools
• No Cost Private School PD Available
• Legislative Call to Action
• What I've Been Reading

The theme for the 2025 Rose Parade Lutheran Hour Ministries Float Committee (LHMFC) float entry is Behold! Jesus the Savior is Born. 

To millions on New Year’s Day and beyond, this float will be proclaiming THE STORY from Behold! Jesus the Savior is Born all the way through to RETURNING! 

And there’s a way for children (preschool - 8th grade) to be involved via LHMFC’s 14th annual float coloring contest!  

Entries now need to be postmarked by the new and extended date: Friday, November 15, 2024.  

Click here to download Coloring Sheet

Click here to download Contest Rules

• Prayers from St. Paul’s Lutheran School and Preschool, San Diego, CA: Prayers for our wonderful staff as they bring the grace and salvation news to our children each day with love, grace, kindness and confidence! Also, prayers for staff members facing health challenges.
• For next week's District-wide Service Day, that it will be a blessing to all those involved.
• For the planning and preparation of the All Workers Conference. We are looking forward to a wonderful conference!

Schools we are praying for the week of November 17:

Christ Lutheran School and Early Childhood Center, La Mesa, CA

Word of Life Christian Preschool, Surprise, AZ

Our Savior’s Lutheran School, Ridgecrest, CA 

Each week, prayers of thanksgiving and prayers for teachers, administrators, support staff, pastors, students, and families of the Lutheran schools, early childhood centers, and churches of the Pacific Southwest District are listed. To include names on the list, please send information to anna.preus@psd-lcms.org by noon on Tuesdays.