March 11 - School Picture Day

March 11- Priority Financial Assistance Application Deadline

March 14 - 18 - Spring Break - No School

March 21 - First Day of 4th Quarter

March 23 - Parent Teacher Conferences (Half Day) (1-5pm)

April 1- "Hold Your Seat Fee" Re-Enrollment Deadline

If you need to learn more how you can obtain financial aid for the next school year, please contact Jennifer Olmsted at j.olmsted@bigcovesda.net or call 256-518-9642 to schedule an appointment. With limited funds available, the majority of funds will be allocated on a first application basis. It is our fervent ambition to offer support to any family that needs assistance.

As our school continues on a path of continuous improvement, one of the areas we have been refining is our enrollment processes and procedures. In response, BCCA is instituting early re-enrollment procedures. Early re-enrollment includes all re-enrollment forms completed and a non-refundable $100 fee to ‘Hold Your Seat’ for next year. The $100 fee will be rebated off of your first month’s tuition payment.

Please note that for every month after the April 1st re-enrollment date, the ‘Hold Your Seat’ fee will increase by $25. For example, after April 2nd, the fee will increase to $125, after May 1st, it will increase to $150 and so on. Only the $100 portion of the fee will be rebated off of your first month’s tuition payment.

We appreciate the financial sacrifice that you make to give your child(ren) an "academically excellent, culturally relevant and joyfully Christian" education. If you would like to meet with us to discuss this new system, please call Cassie Fristoe or Jennifer Olmsted at 256-518-9642 to schedule an appointment.

We have spirit yes we do, we have spirit, how about you! This month BCCA students were able to have fun during Spirit Week, where they were able to show how much they have fun through creativity activities each day of the week. Monday ~ President's Day, Tues~ crazy hair/sock day, Wednesday ~ Twin day, Thursday ~ Career day, and Friday ~ Book Character day. Thank you families for your children's participation in our Spirit Week activities.

The students of Big Cove Christian Academy enjoyed a field trip to the Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge in Decatur, AL. They were able to take advantage of the winter migration to enjoy the Festival of the Cranes. While visiting the Observation Center they enjoyed viewing thousands of Sandhill cranes along with several Whooping cranes, ducks, geese, raptors and eagles. They also enjoyed learning about the diversity of habits, feeding habits, resting, and roosting sites for a variety of species of the resident wildlife, along with being able to identify many of the bird exhibits. During their nature walk the children were pleasantly surprised by an encounter with a dead snake! The trip was completed with spending time at the park enjoying the great outdoors on a beautiful sunny day. Thank you BCCA teachers for encouraging our students to fall in love with the great outdoors, and for teaching them the love of Christ through his creation of nature.

Thank you to all of the families that joined us for vespers/ Intramurals night! The Social Committee for Huntsville Central Church and Home and School from BCCA organized the evening starting with a vespers program and later with games in the gym to include volleyball, soccer, and a game of tag. The library was set up for board games and card games. Lastly, the cafeteria accommodated games for small children. Home and School sponsored a fundraising benefitting Big Cove Christian Academy with a variety of snacks that kids and adults loved.

Our next Open Gym Night will be March 12 at 6pm. We also will have a family friendly movie night on March 26. More details to come! Hope to see you there!

Gratitude develops your faith when times are tough. And, times are tough for many people around the world right now. It is heartbreaking to watch the war in Ukraine. Attending members of Central Church (The Bodnaruk Family—Andrii, Olesia, Yevheniia and Slavic) have family in Ukraine in danger right now as I write. Yet, it is in these very times that your faith can grow.

When things don’t make sense, when you can’t figure it out, when your prayers are unanswered, when life stinks, when everything is going the way you didn’t want it to go, you can grow.

Anybody can thank God for good things. But when you can thank God even in the bad things, your faith grows and your spiritual roots go deeper.

In the Bible, the prophet Habakkuk was going through tough times. He said, “Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior” (Habakkuk 3:17-18 NIV).

Habakkuk was not thanking God for all the things that had gone wrong in his life. What was his cause of gratitude? “I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior.”

Habakkuk basically said, “Everything else stinks in life, but I can be grateful, because the Lord is my Savior. He will pull me out. He’ll bring me through this. I’m not on my own. He hasn’t abandoned me. I will still give thanks to God.”.

When you’re going through tough times—whether it’s in your family or work or any other area of your life—you need to look at what’s left, not what’s lost, and be grateful for it.

No matter how bad things are, there are always thousands of things you can be grateful for. And no matter how bad things are, you can be thankful that God is with you always.

He has promised to see you through, to help you out, to strengthen you, to care for you, to do miracles, and to answer your prayers. He’s promised that even when things don’t go your way, he can work it for good in your life.

Love Always,

Pastor Randy Mills