Lustre News
Schmeckfest is this Friday, March 27, the major fundraiser for the Lustre Christian High School each year. The meal is served at 5 and 7 p.m. in the LCHS gymnasium.
The snowstorms that hit most of Montana Wednesday, March 11-14 brought Lustre minimal snow, and the community is working hard to prepare. Tickets are available at Agland in Wolf Point, Baker’s Jewelry in Glasgow and at the LCHS. We’ll be glad to see you!
Brian Young was the speaker for the spiritual emphasis week at LCHS this week. The junior high students were encouraged to attend, and it gives them a glimpse into the great teaching that goes along with studies in high school. Young spoke on the fallacies of evolution and the inerrancy of God’s Word.
The LCHS basketball team travelled to Missoula to compete in the state tournament before the major snowstorm of March hit all of Montana with rain, followed by high winds and then snow. Record amounts of snow in 72 hours were recorded in Grass Range-27”, Stanford-25.4”, Lewistown-25”, Great Falls 10.4”. Teams competing in the (Boys) Montana State C Tournament were Winnett-Grass Range, Scobey, Belt, West Yellowstone, Chester-Joplin- Inverness, Roy-Winifred, and Manhatten Christian. We were thankful to have teams come home safely over the treacherous roads.
What an honor to see our LCHS basketball team play in the state championship game Saturday, March 14, having won their privilege to compete by defeating Chester- Joplin-Inverness (co-op) Wednesday, and Manhatten Christian in an exciting game. Lustre had no turnovers in the CJI game, and only one turnover by half in the Manhatten game. They lost to Scobey in the championship. Before the trophies were awarded, it was heartwarming to see the players initiate a prayer circle to give thanks together with their officials and coaches.
The trophy for second place was awarded to Johnslee Pierre on behalf of the team. As the NFHS announcer said “It is a great honor to play at the (state) Tournament; not much of a chance when the season begins. It is the greatest honor to play for the state championship.”
The Lustre Grade School MathCounts team competed in the State MathCounts competition in Butte on March 16, with Curt and Lisa Neufeld accompanying the group.
Family in Lustre learned early Sunday morning, March 8, Roger Wall had lost his battle with mesotheliomia but answered the roll call to enter heaven’s shores on March 7. INFaith Career Missionary Roger Wall of Jordan Valley, Ore., passed away in Caldwell, Idaho. He was the son of the late Albert and Ethel Wall of Lustre, and younger brother to Tim Wall (Linda) of Laurel, and Elaine Unrau (Eldon) of Billings and Dwaine Wall (Vivian) of Lustre. Born in 1949, he graduated from LCHS in 1968 and Multnomah School of the Bible, where he met his wife of 52 years, Terry. She was the daughter of American Missionary Fellowship missionaries in Nevada. He grew up attending the Lustre EMB Church, who commissioned him and his wife as missionaries in 1971. Awana Awards wer held on Wednesday, March 18, at 7 pm. Mike Brown gave a devotional in Dawson’s place, from Genesis 1:27, MT 10:2931 and John 3:16, Romans 10:10-13. He encouraged parents to “be intentional about making sure their children understood the concept of salvation as a free gift, a gift that needs to be accepted”. He said “People are made in God’s image, having a sense of morality, able to think and reason, and are not like the animals. Adam and Eve were created good and sinless, but they choose to bring sin into the world. We do not have to teach our toddler to sin. He sins because he is a sinner. We are separated from God by our sin. Jesus lived a perfect life and the wrath God is just in giving us, was put on Jesus. God is just. He HAS to punish sin. Salvation is a free gift because of what Jesus did. God’s wrath is real. It will be bad if we don’t accept God’s gift.”
What a privilege to see the excitement of the tiny children and students in grades 1-8 as they received the awards for memorizing Scripture, completing books per age group and doing extra credit verses. One boy in the young Cubbies memorized Psalm 15, two boys earned their third-year trophy even as second graders. Each of the students in the various groups earned medals for finishing their books, and Piper Neufeld, Jamin Olfert, Micah Zerbe, Ian Unrau, Abe Unrau, Noah Zerbe and Holt Nichols were commended for finishing all the goals of extra credit verses. All the students earned something!
Joe Olfert, Harlo Reddig, Ava Holzrichter, Justin Schiller were given the meritorious award for completing six books of memory work by their final year of Awana. Jerry Fast thanked the parents and grandparents for coming, and especially the parents for working with their children at home on Bible memorization, an eternal value.
