Senior Commencement.

We could not be more proud of Hadassah for completely all her many years of school.  She is now a graduate!  She has completed K-12 at Linville Hill Christian School!  Her teachers have all been outstanding!  She has learned life values!  School was always a fun way for her to interact with friends!  Hadassah loved long jump when she was in Middle School.  Entering High School was exciting for her especially knowing that Linville was starting up grades 9&10.  Then grades 11&12 were added!  God has been so good to us for allowing us to send our children to this wonderful school.  Thank you Linville Family!!!

With COVID-19, so many changes had to be made this school term!  Hadassah was VERY BLESSED to still go on their Senior Trip to Africa right before this whole shut down happened!  I admit, I was a bundle of nerves until we were able to meet the Senior Class back at school.  So many good memories were made over this time for the Class of 2020!  We know that many schools had to cancel their Senior plans and we are grateful to have Hadassah have this experience.

We were holding the thought of graduation lightly in our hands and not being real sure how it was all going to hold out!  Hadassah was in the class room the beginning on March, then they all went to Africa and she didn't go back into the classroom again.  When she returned from her trip, the shut down happened the next day and she finished school at home.  She was ready to receive her diploma and move on in life!

She is excited to do more cleaning as her job and be finished with school work!

The night of Commencement was planned to have all the activities outside but the weather was not in our favor.  We sat in groups of ten.  The graduates were only permitted to invite ten people to attend.  After the diplomas were received, we all went outside for the throwing of the caps.  We spent the rest of the evening outside!

At the beginning of the commencement, they showed a slide show of some of the class highlights!

Mr. Buckwalter is the head of school and preached a great message of encouragement to our young adults that were graduating!

Hadassah receiving her diploma!!!!!  Great job girl!!!!!

Her cap kept falling sliding down, so she just took it off. We all laughed and it was great!

 She just went along with it and fixed it again after walking off the stage.  It happened to a few other graduates also.

 We moved outside for the cap toss!

Um, I guess Hadassah really wanted her cap to fly away!!!!  :)))

We are just proud of how well she finished!  Congratulations Hadassah!

Of course, one of her ten choices to be invited to the commencement was Jeremiah!!!!  Love these two!

And Jess ... I could say so much about these two!  They are best of friends and I just love them so much!

Jenna moved in after school hours most days during volleyball season!  :)  Her and Hadassah played on the same team and with her home being a bit farther from school, she would often come to our house after school and just hang out until game time.  I loved how she helped herself to anything in the pantry or kitchen!  Hadassah and Jenna had a fun year together!

The next set of photos are from Mark Bulkwalter.  He is a photographer that captured so many great shots!  Thanks Mark for these precious moments!

Hadassah is so beautiful!

These ladies are amazing and God has big plans for them!

The faculty at Linville Hill Christian School is rare and awesome!  They all believe in God and have Jesus number one in their lives!!!!  All of them!  They have prayed so much for this Class of 2020 and have done so much for each one!  Many thanks to all those who ministered to our daughter and have taught her life skills!

Such a great night!!!!!

What a class of great kids!

Watching these men play in basketball was a privilege.  They let Matthew take the lead with the States Game because they were off to Africa for Senior trip!  Such great guys!

Touch the Dog ... this was a saying to face your fears.  To not run away from problems but ask God to lead and help and be your strength and then place offense!  Jesus already won the battle on the cross and the victory is won for believers in Christ!  To Touch the Dog means to look at your fears and not run.  Some of the 2020 graduates have already faced a lot of fears and "dogs" in their lives.  We witnessed at commencement, Courtney actually touching a puppy.  She has a fear of dogs because she got bit as a child by a dog but in front of everyone, she braved it and touched a dog!!!!  Great job Courtney!!!!  What a testimony of facing fears!

Mr. B spoke words of encouragement over every single graduate!!!!  Words of what their name means.  Thoughts of how to use their strengths and weaknesses.  Words of so much life!  He reminded them that the world needs them right now!  The world is hurting and dying and the world needs a group of young adults to rise up for Christ!  The message was so powerful!

Fixing her cap!

Just going with it ...

What a good feeling!!!!!  Done with school!!!!!

This was such a wonderful way to finish off the year!  To miss the whole last quarter of school in school was tough.  To be able to still honor the Seniors was just awesome!!!!!


Thank you Linville Hill Christian School!!!!!