Inside this issue: News of Hope Spring 2021 Administrator News 1 Senior Spotlight Words From Our Secondary Principal Clubs & Organizations 2 3 4–5 Alumni Spotlight Grandparents’ Day 6 Spring Banquet Fundraising Update 7 MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Grandparents’ Day April 29 Spring Banquet April 30 HCA Graduation May 23 A Story of Freedom July 4 th is a day of celebration. We listen to patriotic songs, enjoy wonderful firework displays, and celebrate freedom and independence. This is a great day for us as Americans. However, biblically, a greater day for us to celebrate, is right around the corner. God’s people were in slavery to a harsh ruler named Pharaoh. It was the fourteenth day of the biblical new year, and Almighty God said, “get ready to leave.” He was about to give them freedom and independence. No people under heaven can say they have had more of an amazing story of freedom than the Israelites. As God’s judgement came on the Egyptians, during the first Passover. His people were safe and sound because of the blood of the lamb. The next day, they left in haste to the promised land. Many years later, the Son of God entered Jerusalem as the Lamb of God who would bring people out of slavery from the ruler of this world. On the fourteenth day of the biblical new year, the true Lamb of God was slain to set His people truly free from the sin and bondage of this world. He calls us to leave worldly pursuits in haste and follow Him in faith. We can now sing a freedom hymn like no other. Hope Christian Academy exists because the Lamb of God paid the price for our sins to give us real hope and true freedom. As we come to Passover, we celebrate a liberator like no other, a liberator who set us free from the bondage of sin and death. Mr. Shane Bradley HCA Administrator But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.” I Peter 2:9
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Inside this issue:
News of Hope Spring 2021
Administrator News 1
Senior Spotlight
Words From
Our Secondary Principal
Clubs & Organizations
2
3
4–5
Alumni Spotlight
Grandparents’ Day
6
Spring Banquet
Fundraising Update
7
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
Grandparents’ Day
April 29
Spring Banquet
April 30
HCA Graduation
May 23
A Story of Freedom July 4th is a day of celebration. We listen to patriotic
songs, enjoy wonderful firework displays, and
celebrate freedom and independence. This is a
great day for us as Americans. However, biblically, a
greater day for us to celebrate, is right around the
corner.
God’s people were in slavery to a harsh ruler named
Pharaoh. It was the fourteenth day of the biblical new
year, and Almighty God said, “get ready to leave.”
He was about to give them freedom and independence. No people
under heaven can say they have had more of an amazing story of
freedom than the Israelites. As God’s judgement came on the
Egyptians, during the first Passover. His people were safe and sound
because of the blood of the lamb. The next day, they left in haste to
the promised land.
Many years later, the Son of God entered Jerusalem as the Lamb of
God who would bring people out of slavery from the ruler of this
world. On the fourteenth day of the biblical new year, the true Lamb of
God was slain to set His people truly free from the sin and bondage of
this world. He calls us to leave worldly pursuits in haste and follow Him in
faith. We can now sing a freedom hymn like no other.
Hope Christian Academy exists because the Lamb of God paid the
price for our sins to give us real hope and true freedom. As we come to
Passover, we celebrate a liberator like no other, a liberator who set us
free from the bondage of sin and death.
Mr. Shane Bradley
HCA Administrator
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His own possession, that
you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.”
I Peter 2:9
Senior Spotlight Page 2
Emma Dazell plans to attend Dickinson State University in the fall of 2021
where she will major in Elementary Education and minor in Psychology. She
has been a student at Hope Christian Academy for thirteen years.
She has earned the Presidential Scholarship from Dickinson State University,
various American Legion Oratorical scholarships, a Roughrider Electric
Scholarship, and the North Dakota Academic Scholarship.
Chase Klitzke has been a student at Hope Christian Academy for ten years.
He plans to attend the Florence Culinary Arts School in Florence, Italy
upon graduation.
He hopes to eventually own his own restaurant someday.
Annie Schoch plans to attend Dickinson State University to pursue a
degree in nursing. She has been a student at Hope Christian Academy
for twelve years and has enjoyed every single year.
She feels that she has been taught many things, both inside and outside
the classroom at HCA.
Class of 2021
Maria Sanborn plans to take a break from school to travel to all 50
states in the United States and their capitals. She hopes to work from
her van and eventually convert it into a home. She may attend
college at a later date.
A verse that is inspiring to her at this moment in life is Jeremiah 29:11,
“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to
prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you a hope and a
future.”
HCA Graduation
Sunday, May 23 at 2 pm
Words from our Secondary Principal Page 3
Pursuing A New Direction
Directions is our theme this year in grades 6-12, and it has been a thrill to see God
moving in so many directions. We are about to graduate our first senior class in
three years! We completed a very successful history/mission trip to the southern
states in the midst of a pandemic. We have weathered the storm of serious
illnesses to students and staff. We have welcomed a new baby to the Blain
household, a future Royal I suspect. HCA has had face-to-face instruction five
days a week for the entire school year. We have maintained a high level of math instruction by
utilizing a very capable team of four instructors which was not ideal, but necessary. We have
watched the tumultuous transition of U.S. Presidents amidst riots and violence. We have witnessed
the amazing way that authority can and should be passed from one shepherd to another at EBC as
Pastor Tim Privratsky stepped aside and Pastor Ron Dazell stepped into a new and exciting role.
So many directions in so little time can make your head spin. Thankfully, we are directed by a God
who never fails and never falters, as we walk in His direction it IS a triumphal procession. It has been
our goal through each of the six pastoral message series presented this year in chapel to give the
students the aroma of Christ followers. We prayed they would each come away with a fragrance
more and more like Christ as they grew in wisdom and knowledge of our risen Savior, Jesus Christ.
This year has been one which has shown us death first hand and brought us new life in abundance.
It has made it much more real to understand that when our time is up we need to have the right
fragrance…is it the fragrance recognized by the King who allows you into his eternal kingdom or is it
a fragrance of stench which causes the King to turn away from you forever. We live in serious times,
and as a staff commissioned by God we must continue to speak as Christ to all we meet.
As I mentioned earlier, we are graduating four seniors from HCA this year. Let me introduce them to
you. Emma will be pursuing Christ as she attends DSU to work on a teaching degree. Annie will be
a fragrant offering to the Lord while exploring her options in the DSU school of nursing. Chase will
be reaching people for Christ with words and the fragrance of fine food as he studies in Italy to be
a chef. Maria will continue to seek direction for her future from the God she loves.
Then there is our Master’s graduate, Mr. Del Padre. Mrs. Del Padre and I will be pursuing my calling
to be the head administrator in an elementary school closer to children and grandchildren. It has
been the most joyful and rewarding 6 years in my career in education to serve with the staff, stu-
dents, and families here at HCA. I will always be a Royal at heart. HOPE GROWS HERE, and it is my
prayer for each member of the HCA family. Let the knowledge, wisdom, and understanding of Je-
sus Christ grow in you daily. I feel like I am a North Dakotan at heart. You have ministered to Mrs.
Del Padre and me in so many ways, ways that are hard to speak of without tears shorting out my
keyboard. You have all blessed us, and we are forever grateful as we pursue this new
direction God has called to follow.
“But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of
him everywhere. 15 For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, 16 to
one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things? 17 For we are not, like so
many, peddlers of God's word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.”
II Corinthians 2:14-17
Mr. David Del Padre
Assistant Principal
Clubs & Organizations Page 4
Baseball
Basketball
Bowling Soccer
4-H
Front: Callen Gelsinger , Madelynn Kadrmas, Caleb Freeman, Aiden Wilson
Back: Ashlee Freeman, Landon Gelsinger , Gabe Sackman, Zach Koegl, Emma Koegl, Christina Dohrmann
Volleyball
Front: Shayna Klitzke, Morgan Daley, Lauren Selle, Allanah Davis
Swim
Kendra Erickson, Trent Irwin, Stryder Roller, Zach Koegl, Allanah Davis