FAFSA Filing Session; College Navigator Site

To Whom It May Concern:

First, do you all remember me? Jenita Watje? I’m now Jenita Pace. J I hope you all are doing well! Karl graduated last year so there are now officially no more Watje’s at Bethany!

I’m now working as the College and Career Advisor at South St Paul and loving it! I just thought of you guys and wanted to make you aware of an opportunity here:

We are having a FAFSA filing session Feb 13 from 6:30- 8:30 at our high school campus. Financial aid counselors from around the metro will be coming here to give a step by step presentation on filling out the pre-application worksheet. There will also be a $500 scholarship drawing for one of the attendees.

Let me know if you are interested in letting your students know. I’ve attached a hand out we gave our students. I can also get you a poster or two if you want.

Thanks!

Jenita Pace
Career and College Advisor
651-306-3654
jpace@sspps.org
700 2nd St N

College Navigator http://collegenavigator.ed.gov

<http://collegenavigator.ed.gov> ), the USDE¹s website for information about colleges and universities, has been named by Money magazine’s 12/4/07 issue as “the best first screen” for researching higher education institutions. Money notes that the website is not tied to any marketing department that is seeking students’ personal information. The magazine also credits the website for (1) being “one of the simplest”to use; (2) having “a good comparison tool”; and (3) providing “a full set of the latest data on expenses, aid, enrollment, admissions and graduation rates, majors and more, along with a Google map pinpointing location.” Go to http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/29/pf/bestweb_college.moneymag to learn more.

Trouble getting kids interested in reading?

Having trouble getting kids interested in reading?                                                                                  -

That was my problem as a child. Now I write Christian action-adventures and mysteries that kids hate to put down. Following are some recent comments I’ve gotten from teachers, parents, and young readers.

“I really loved the book North Woods Poachers.  I couldn’t put the book down!!  My grandmother and I stayed up ’til 10:15 reading your book.”

“We have four sons and our oldest is 12.  After his 10-year-old brother read Legend of the White Wolf in his Boys Book Club, we started reading Big Rig Rustlers out loud before bedtime.  Last night our 12-year-old begged me to read another chapter and ya don’t beg for just anything at this age.  I told him he could read it anytime…and he was last seen reading chapter 7 with a flashlight in his top bunk.  He’s a young man of few words, but he had no trouble exclaiming his praises of your book.”

“This is wonderful for a boy who was our latest reader, hardest to please, too cool for anything girly, boy.  His boredom was leading him down the fantasy aisles in the library.  After that didn’t get past Mom, he settled into reading auto magazines and fantasizing about the day he can drive his own Dodge Challenger, complete with black stripe.”

“It is excruciatingly difficult for Christian families to maneuver through male adolescence in this society.  We want our boys to have a full boyhood and freedom to explore their world without compromising their hearts.  Most books whet boys’ appetites for gore and fantasy, leading them away from God.  Many Christian books preach to boys, do the thinking for them, or simply are too historical for boys to relate to well.  We have read loads of classic books, but were running out of “living books”…the kind that make our boys ask, “just one more chapter, pleeeease!”. Then we found your books!

Each of my books have been ranked by Accelerated Reader.

You can find more information at one of my web sites.
Author http://www.maxbooks.9k.com
Books for Boys blog http://booksandboys.blogspot.com
or 50 Pages of Reviews http://maxbookreviews.blogspot.com

If you have any questions, just let me know. Otherwise, my books are available on Amazon.com. I also sign books ordered directly from me.

Thank you,

Max Elliot Anderson
Author

The Gospel and Culture Conference-Feb 15-16,2008

The Gospel and Culture Conference will be at Sovereign Grace Fellowship at Washburn Elementary School – 8401 Xerxes Ave – Bloomington – on February 15-16.

Speakers and Topics: Mark Alderton: Hope in a Fallen World, Matthew Wassink: Defending the Faith in our Culture, Vance Whitaker: The Impact of Origins, Rick Gamache: Redeeming Arts and Entertainment

For more information:  www.sovgracemn.org

Cost: Free

Friday: 7-9 PM    Saturday: 9-12:15 PM

Childcare Provided

A Warning about “The Golden Compass”

The movie “The Golden Compass” is arriving in theatres Friday, December 7th. This movie is based on a book by Philip Pullman, a proclaimed atheist. The movie is based on the first book of his series of children’s books (the series is entitled His Dark Materials) but the movie has been watered down to get parents and children to see it and then they hope that the parents buy their children the books for Christmas. What is disturbing is the ending of the last book in the series, The Amber Spyglass, depicts the 2 children killing God. Here is a link to read more about this movie and the implications behind it: http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/compass.asp