Last night, the Holly Heron Pathfinder and Hedgehog Adventurer clubs held their annual Investiture. Each child and teen received their honors for the course work that they had accomplished throughout the club year. The Pathfinders also welcomed the graduating Adventurer Builder class so in the fall will now be part of the Pathfinder club.
Below are just a few pictures (sorry for the quality – taken with a cell phone).
The first analysis of all available research that compared 3 types of schools: religious, public and charter schools, was released recently in a presentation at Notre Dame University. The author, Dr. William H. Jevnes had positive comments about Adventist School. The analysis combined data from all the recent 90 published studies in recent year, most of them from refereed academic journals.
Dr. Jeynes is known as the architect of economic and education plan that enabled the Republic of Korea to recover from the late 1990′s Asian economic crisis.
Below are a few quotes from the lecture at Notre Dame and interview that Dr. Jeynes gave to Adventist Today (Adventist Today is not affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church)
This advantage was maintained even what the data was control for socioeconomic status, ethnicity and gender.
Specifically regarding Adventist Schools, the advantage is at 11 months. Also, behavioral advantages were even greater than the high scholastic advantage. For the high school age the advantages even increase.
Read the complete article at: Study of Education Outcomes Places Adventist Schools Significantly Ahead of Public School
Research from Johns Hopkins Medical school shows that what people sense an increase of performance when taking caffeine is actually from the new caffeine taking you out of the caffeine withdrawal and back to normal. Click here to read on the
This morning, the Adelphian Junior Academy Bells of Harmon were filmed for a WXYZ Channel 7 news segment.
The Bells of Harmony will be playing each Sunday during the Dicken’s Festival in the old downtown Holly. Come see them perform at 2 p.m.
Our church caroler’s will also be part of the Festival on Sundays from 1-3 p.m.
The Holly Seventh-day Adventist Church is pleased to have Echoes of Happiness with us Saturday, November 10 at 5:00pm in concert.
Echoes of Happiness is a contemporary Christian singing group that is dedicated to sharing the person of Jesus Christ through music and teaching of God’s Word.
They strive for musical excellence and combine that with a pleasing quality in harmony and accompaniment. The group members also state that they realize that their testimony, lyrics and lessons from the Bible are as important as the quality of the music.