Martin Luther School

Congratulations to Rose for winning the FVL 4th grade poster award for Martin Luther School! Her poster will be on display for the next year along with the other individual school winners. Congratulations also to Alex for receiving the runner-up award, and to Broden for receiving the Future Artist Award! (Caption provided by Mrs. Race)

Great work, 3rd and 4th graders! Thank you to everyone who donated to the Christian Caring Children fund -- you made a difference!

Thank you to the Christian Caring Children group from Martin Luther School in Neenah! These 3rd & 4th graders found it in their hearts to gather some donations and kitten food for us! We are so thankful for their kindness! 💝

Yes, these kitten beauties, Elsa & Bianca are up for adoption!! 🌺

Please inquire @ [email protected]

Congratulations and God's blessings, graduates! Always remember: "in all these things [you] are more than conquerors through him who loved us!" (Romans 8:37)

Congrats to our graduating class of 2020!

Join us virtually tonight by celebrating their God-given abilities and achievements. Tonight's graduation service will be live-streamed on Trinity Church's Facebook website. The service will begin at 7:00pm.

Trinity Lutheran Church Neenah

Congratulations! We are so proud of all of you for your hard work and dedication to learning, even when you had to do it from home! (That includes you, too, parents!😁) A special shout out to our 8th grade graduates, who showed us how quickly strangers can become family, and how faith and friendship can help you through even the hardest of times! You missed out on two months and many "lasts" together, but your bond of friendship remained strong, so today is not "Goodbye!" but rather, "See you in the next chapter!"

Happy last day of school!

It was such a joy sharing God's Word with all of our students and their families. Thank you to the families, students, faculty, and staff who continued to support our school throughout the year, especially the last eight weeks.

We are also excited that within the next couple of months, Neenah Lutheran will officially begin! We will continue to provide excellent Christian education in the Neenah community as we prepare our students for a changing world and for eternity.

Happy Mother's Day to all the "invisible" moms out there! Thank you for all of the sacrifices you make -- all seen by God -- to continue building your greatest and most beautiful creations!

🔸Invisible Mother 🔸

It all began to make sense, the blank stares, the lack of response, the way
one of the kids will walk into the room while I'm on the phone and ask to be
taken to the store. Inside I'm thinking, 'Can't you see I'm on the phone?'

Obviously not; no one can see if I'm on the phone, or cooking, or sweeping
the floor, or even standing on my head in the corner, because no one can see
me at all. I'm invisible. The invisible Mom. Some days I am only a pair of
hands, nothing more! Can you fix this? Can you tie this? Can you open this??

Some days I'm not a pair of hands; I'm not even a human being. I'm a clock
to ask, 'What time is it?' I'm a satellite guide to answer, 'What number is
the Disney Channel?' I'm a car to order, 'Right around 5:30, please.'

Some days I'm a crystal ball; 'Where's my other sock?, Where's my phone?,
What's for dinner?'

I was certain that these were the hands that once held books and the eyes
that studied history, music and literature -but now, they had disappeared
into the peanut butter, never to be seen again. She's going, she's
going, she's gone!

One night, a group of us were having dinner, celebrating the return of a
friend from England . She had just gotten back from a fabulous trip, and she
was going on and on about the hotel she stayed in. I was sitting there,
looking around at the others all put together so well. It was hard not to
compare and feel sorry for myself. I was feeling pretty pathetic, when she
turned to me with a beautifully wrapped package, and said, 'I brought you
this.' It was a book on the great cathedrals of Europe . I wasn't exactly
sure why she'd given it to me until I read her inscription: 'With admiration
for the greatness of what you are building when no one sees.'

In the days ahead I would read - no, devour - the book. And I would discover
what would become for me, four life-changing truths, after which I could
pattern my work:

1) No one can say who built the great cathedrals - we have no record
of their names.

2) These builders gave their whole lives for a work they would never
see finished.

3) They made great sacrifices and expected no credit.

4) The passion of their building was fuelled by their faith that the
eyes of God saw everything.

A story of legend in the book told of a rich man who came to visit the
cathedral while it was being built, and he saw a workman carving a tiny bird
on the inside of a beam. He was puzzled and asked the man,
'Why are you spending so much time carving that bird into a beam that
will be covered by
the roof. No one will ever see it'

And the workman replied, 'Because God sees.'

I closed the book, feeling the missing piece fall into place. It was almost
as if I heard God whispering to me, 'I see you. I see the sacrifices you
make every day, even when no one around you does.

No act of kindness you've done, no sequin you've sewn on, no cupcake you've
baked, no Cub Scout meeting, no last minute errand is too small for me to
notice and smile over. You are building a great cathedral, but you can't see
right now what it will become.

I keep the right perspective when I see myself as a great builder. As one of
the people who show up at a job that they will never see finished, to work
on something that their name will never be on. The writer of the book went
so far as to say that no cathedrals could ever be built in our lifetime
because there are so few people willing to sacrifice to that degree.

When I really think about it, I don't want my son to tell the friend he's
bringing home from college for Thanksgiving, 'My Mom gets up at 4 in the
morning and bakes homemade pies, and then she hand bastes a turkey for 3
hours and presses all the linens for the table.' That would mean I'd built a
monument to myself. I just want him to want to come home. And then, if there
is anything more to say to his friend, he'd say, 'You're gonna love it
there...'

As mothers, we are building great cathedrals. We cannot be seen if we're
doing it right. And one day, it is very possible that the world will marvel,
not only at what we have built, but at the beauty that has been added to the
world by the sacrifices of invisible mothers.

💖
➖Original author: Nicole Johnson

Your home becomes a Magic Tree House when you join Jack and Annie on amazing adventures and delve into fun, theme-related activities!

You DON'T want to miss this! Magic Tree House Home Adventures

Knights unite!

On May 1st, our students will celebrate our excellent school!

Go, Knights!