End of the year lunch

We welcomed past ExCo members and honored Marlon for his many years of faithful service to the school and PA. (His son is graduating, but I'm sure we'll meet again!) It was so nice to see familiar faces and enjoy a dimsum lunch...

Marlon and Kirby are two of our longest serving ExCo members

HS Principal Brian and Marlon

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A note from Marlon:

Thank you All for attending yesterday lunch! I am honoured to have worked with you all wonderful people whom have the hearts for ICS. May God keep you and Bless you and your families. In the name of Jesus Chris our Lord! Amen!

Thank you Becky for all the works you have done, and the wonderful gift that you have prepared. I am blessed!

Love in Christ!

Marlon

Chairman's Report 2012-13

Dear ICS parents,

This past year has been a special year of blessings at ICS! Let me highlight some events below. I also want to encourage you to take a look at the events and photos on our beautiful blog: http://icsparents.blogspot.hk/

In August 2012 we hosted a lunch to welcome new staff and teachers, and nothing is better than treating them to “yum cha”, which we did at Royal Park Hotel restaurant. Throughout the year faithful parents helped prepare appreciation lunches, providing turkey at Thanksgiving, and helped with campus decoration during Christmas and Chinese New Year.

P.A. is also keen on bringing the gospel to our community. In the Fall we hosted the live streaming of Jeremy Lin HK gospel event at our Lu Kao Hwa Theater. Hundreds came and many raised their hands to accept the Lord as savior. Then in the Spring we staged a Gospel Dinner at Regal Riverside with Rev. C.C. Ng as main speaker. His message of Father’s love touched our hearts and reminded us how little our love towards others is when compared to God’s love. Mr. Marlon Cheung (our longest serving P.A. Executive Committee member) also gave his testimony before the message; he shared how God touched him and healed him even though one doctor gave him only a few months to live. Marlon is now almost cleared of cancer cells and continue to use his testimony to glorify God. Praise the Lord!

In late April the P.A. hosted a special evening gathering called Time with ABBA, and invited school administrators, teachers, staff, parents and students to form a chain of blessings after some great worship. All who came were so blessed, we want to give thanks to our Father and will continue doing it in various forms in the future.

Yes, P.A. collects membership fees from many parents and we use our money wisely to benefit the community. To recognize Mr. Tim Wong’s many years of service at ICS, we donated money to help purchase a new die-cut machine at KG campus, to save teachers from traveling to Shek Mun for what was previously the only school set. We also volunteered and purchased good books and DVDs and assembled them into what we call the Parent Resource section of the Secondary Library. Please check these out as great family entertainment and parenting resources at home. As usual , we also supported the Fall Festival (sponsoring the jumping gym), HS Camp, Alpha Camp, Vida Nueva Camp, and HS and MS Fellowships with snacks, food and prayers! Talking about prayers, there are many daytime and evening time prayer meetings organized by our P.A. prayer coordinators. Many grades also have their specific grade level prayer cells that meet regularly. We pray you can join one next year, and help bless ICS to become what God wants us to be!

Blessings,

Pastor Fai Chan

On Behalf of the P.A. Executive Committee

Textbook list available for 2013-14

We have found that some families prefer to have their own copy of a textbook to keep at home so their student does not have to carry it back and forth to school. The PA has acquired the Secondary School list of textbooks for 2013-14 with ISBN numbers for easier ordering.

The school recommends ordering from Follett Educational Services  http://fes.follet.com since they also offer used textbooks and you can save on shipping charges compared to Amazon.

Please contact the PA if you would like to see the textbook list. 

ICS 2013 PA Annual General Meeting is May 27th

April 22, 2013


Dear Parents,


As ICS continues to expand, so does our need for parental involvement. Involvement in the ICS Parent Association allows parents to voice their concerns and ideas. It is also an opportunity for parents to be part of their child’s school life.

As we look forward to the next school year, it is time to choose new members for some of the positions on the Executive Committee (ExCo). If you would like to serve for a term in ExCo or know another member of the Parent Association you would like to recommend to serve, please read the nomination material and complete the Nomination Form that is posted on the ICS PA documents website:

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9D-NCfIwUuVSmF0WWJlMDhRVUE&usp=sharing

For the 2013-14 academic school year, the following positions are up for re-election or are open.

- Chair (1), Vice Chair (1), Secretary (1)

- Campus Representatives: Kindergarten (2), Elementary (2), Secondary (3)

Please return all Nomination Forms to the “PA ExCo AGM Election Committee” by May 24, 2013. Please e-mail to the “PA Election Committee” or put the Nomination Form in an envelope marked “PA - Election”, and send it to school with your child. For Secondary parents, your child can give the envelope to the School Office.

The election will take place on May 27, 2013, at the ICS Chapel 5th floor, during the AGM that begins at 7:30 p.m. Any last minute nominations can be voiced/written in on a ballot at the meeting. If you cannot make the meeting, your vote will still count if you fill out and return the proxy form below, but we hope to see you there. Please contact the “PA Election Committee” if you have any questions.


PA ExCo AGM Election Committee

Middle School Fellowship - "The Thing"

We are blessed by teachers - generous with their time to organize and take part in events such as "The Thing"

We are blessed by parents - generous with their contributions of food for their students to enjoy, this time after tiring themselves out with dodgeball after devos.

A bit of the crazy, fun!

Time with ABBA

The Lord has been casting visions to various parents' prayer group members at different times & at ICS prayer meetings about Whole School Praise & Prayer gatherings. The Lord has orchestrated this Time with ABBA and His heart is to bring healing & unity to the ICS community.

Psalm 22:3-5 "3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded." *

There was wonderful song and praise and a Chain of Blessings: BOT -> HM -> staff, Directors & Principals -> faculty -> students & parents -> BOT & HM







*God is enthroned in the Praises of His ICS children (V3) - God's heart & desire is to see ICS Worship & Praise Him & the Holy Spirit reminds us His Sovereign ruling in ICS and our focus on the Lord & our trust in Him alone( V4).
Indeed this was all our founding parents did - desperately dependent on the Lord because they had nothing (A testimony from one of our founding parents). Praise the Lord He is faithful & He Provided for & delivered ICS !

April 16th, 2013

Praise and Prayer Gathering