News and Announcements

Concordia Lutheran High School has named two new members to its Board of Directors beginning in the 2018-19 school year. They will both serve three-year terms.

From 6-8 p.m. May 4, students in the Photography 4 Change club will be displaying their work at A Hope Center, 3630 Hobson Road, Fort Wayne. The ticket sales from the event will support A Hope Center.

This year’s recipients are Isabelle Smith from Emmanuel-St. Michael Lutheran School, Michael Habegger from St. Peter Lutheran School and Elizabeth Gatchell from Central Lutheran School. All three will be freshmen at CLHS next year.

Everyone across pretty much all time and cultures will agree that some things are beautiful. Everyone agrees regardless of background that beauty, as an abstract concept, exists. I think I’ve made my point that everyone says there is beauty, but have you ever tried to define it? What is beauty? What makes something beautiful? To make things more complex, if we manage to nail down something of a definition of beauty what is beautiful to us may be ugly in another time and place, and vise versa.

In the blink of an eye, one day you wake up and you realize — where did time go? As we grow older, we look back on past memories or experiences and realize how fast time truly does go. We then start to wonder ... Have we really made an impact the way we’ve always wanted?

Two films were named the top winners at the third annual Concordia Comedy Festival on April 20.

Concordia Lutheran High School will sink hunger this year with their “TiCANic: Sinking Hunger in our Community” CANstruction build. The theme this year is focused on decades.

Five days a week I stand in front of, and among, different groups of students teaching them how to conjugate verbs, pronounce vocab words, and eventually put it all together to form logical thoughts in Spanish, through writing and speaking. We discuss holidays in Spanish-speaking countries, food, and how words differ from country to country. I enjoy the Spanish language and culture! However, there are many students who don’t.

This past week on Spring Break I had the opportunity to travel down to Orlando and spend some time with family and relax. Like every trip to Florida, I had many conversations with my wife’s grandfather, Tom VonDeylen (Class of 1952). He has shared a lot of advice throughout the years about life and faith, but he stated something during the conversation that really stuck with me. He said, “No matter where you are and what job you have, if you work hard you will be successful.” How true is that?

CLHS has a long history of award-winning band and choir groups and noted artists and thespians. During this Fine Arts Week, students in the band, choir, visual and media art classes, drama and yearbook will have a chance to showcase their work throughout the school and to the community.