Shades Mountain Christian School - Lighthouse Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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if 'kfwqw ,Wm 'Q ining wiTh prayer geTs everyone ln The mood for Their chapel age. ig double? The Vigneulle Twins, Rick and Mick, sTarT SpirlTual Em- s Week by enTerTaining The sTudenTs wlTh jokes. lr. L. LeT us love hor in word nerfher in Tongue buT in deed and in TruTh Cl John 3 185 This ChrlsTmas The sen iors were ready To Take This To hearT They had heard abouf an SM! familiy The Harrrsons who could use a lrTTle help The couple had Three girls a boy and lrT'rle money Whar money They had was used To puT Their oldesT child Sarah in SMCS The seniors showered The family wlTh grffs of Toys clofhes and sfuffed animals The homeroom cablner was overflowing wrfh presenTs only parl of which are plc Tured above When Mrs Harrison came To pick up The presenTs she looked surprised l don T know whaT To say she sTammered Somehow Thank you sounds rafher sfupid lT Took four seniors To carry The gurls To her car She said You know we caughf some flock from people who dldnT wanT us To puf Sarah in SMCS This is iusT proof ThaT God wanTed her here and is blessing usl A follow up call To Mrs Harrison revealed lusf how exciTed The kids were W Tried To hide The presenTs she said buT The kids found Them and Tore inTo Them like a bunch of lrTTle maggorsf Senior Leigh Ann Mooskey laughs her way Through a chapel song wifh fresh- men Sharon Tucker, Kim Huffman, and Jennifer Thompson. X xi ny

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TempTaTion, Rick for was iT Mick'?5 Vigneulle Told The high school, is more Than a chance To do some- Thing wrong. lT's a chance To do someThing righT. lT was SpiriTual Emphasis Week, SepTember 6-9, a Time when almosT everyone goT caughT up in Their ChrisTian- iTy. The climax of The week came on Friday when The sTudenTs made new com- miTmenTs To God. Several, such as junior Jim Gray and senior Nicole Jahchan, were led To The Lord ThaT day. Soon The revival exciTe- menT died down, buT sever- al high-schoolers puT Biblical command inTo aciion as They wiinessed To The com- muniTy on SaTurday nighis. MW , n-fs w Junior Mason Ellenberger re- membered one of The Team's success sforles: 'TWhen we sTarTed wiTness- ing, There was This one girl named Tammi, who Erika was wiTnessing To. AT firsr she didn'T believe in God, heaven, hell, or anything, buT 115 minuTes laTer, she ac- cepTed Chrisr. Erika was jusT glowing! JusT like any oTher school, SMCS had posiTive and neg- aTive peer pressure flowing Through iTs halls. BuT for sen- ior Dana Harden, iT was en- couragemenT from her friends ThaT helped her grow closer To God. ConsTanT reminders of where l should be spiriTually keep me on Track, she said. Following rs not easy, lf our friends didn'T remind us To sTay Non Track, our chapel speakers did. BuT for many sTudenTs, being a ChrisTian was more Than sii- Ting Through a Bible class or a chapel service. lT involved going To prayer meeTings, Sunday school, and church, and Then living and applying whaT They learned. They did This Through Things like wiT- nessing, going an a mission- ary Trip To GuaTemala, or helping ouT a family in need. These people learned Thar Though following God is seldom easy, iT was worTh iT! Candy Schilling Qnjjwaw if in Wi The guiTarisTs Three - Miss Duvel. Mr. Givens, and Miss Erwin - keep chapel lighT as They lead The high-schoolers in a sang. 3, Senior Wendy Irvin displays her Go given TalenT by singing When Gi Ran during chapel. i'One narion, under God Seni Dana Harden pafTlcipaTes in TT pledge To The flag during hameroor

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lt's 7:00 Friday night. School's out for the week- end, and you have some spare time on your hands, so you decide to work on your homework that is due on Monday, right? Wrong! Fri- day nights were meant for having fun, and SMCS stu- dents knew exactly how to do that. ' Many spent the night at ci friends house and rented some movies or even went out to a movie with a date Gt they happened to come upon a small fortune, that isj. Others like junior Robert Atkinson and sophomore Lance Williams spent time students y s HO0L'S playing video games at Putt-Putt. And some were like sophomore Clint Simp- son, who went wher- ever there is a party. Friday and Saturday nights weren't the only times to have fun, though. Wednesday nights brought church youth group meet- ings and many like seniors Shana Wise and Amy Rod- gers went to Dairy Queen, where they could eat ice cream and just have fun. Others stayed around after church just to talk to their friends while some of the guys played basketball in local gyms or took the op- portunity to practice on their skateboards We might have to take the side mirror off said sen lor Joe Seifert as he and many of his classmates tried to push his car through the doors leading into the school hallway. They were constructively using the time after church to pull the sen- ior prank. Why sit around and waste time when there are so many people out there to meet? So many places to go and things to do? Follow the examples of these stu- dents and you will create memories that last forever. is if f ' ' 1? f ' ' f After church, sophomore Shelley Wester and Tom Humphrey, ShelIey'S friend from the Slvll youth group, spend time at Dairy Queen