Hillcrest Update
Principal Steve Brue

Students appear very happy today... it's the last day of the first semester and they are ready for the Christmas break! 

We've enjoyed a full December of activities celebrating the Christmas message.  Students shared songs of this season at their annual Christmas Concert two weekends ago.  Our students from Norway visited community groups and churches to spread some Christmas cheer.  The student body, faculty and guests joined together for a Christmas Banquet in the HLA gymnasium this past weekend, planned by the HLA Student Council.  Many thanks go out to our kitchen staff for the excellent meal they provided!  Numerous other acts of kindness that usually go unnoticed to the public eye were also included in these past couple of weeks.  We remember that it is God's way to give, so out of gratitude we are able to do the same.

My visit to the Danielsen School in Bergen, Norway was a blessing.  I met with a large gathering of potential students and their parents.  We anticipate another full group of students in our school program again next year.  The hospitality of the leaders and teachers of the Danielsen School was tremendous!

A new HLA Parents Advisory Team will officially meet beginning in January of 2004.  This parent group will actively participate in communicating the positive changes of our school program.  The Board of Directors will receive important feedback through this new forum of parent communication for the school.

This campus will become very quiet by mid-afternoon today -- a postlude of peace after a busy semester of hard work and great achievement.  The quiet break will be good.  May you experience the peace and joy that God has announced through the angels,

"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests."

Merry Christmas and Blessed New Year!

If you have questions or wish to contact me, my email is sbrue@ffhillcrest.org.