Frederickson Campus Blog
A Very Frederickson Christmas
December 10, 2025
As we step into this Christmas season, our campus is bursting with excitement and joyful moments that remind us why this time of year is so meaningful. Everywhere you look, Christmas is all around us as students sing familiar carols, our office and classrooms are decorated with festive cheer, and conversations are filled with stories of family traditions. In the school lobby, there are Christmas trees made from students’ handprints that display what they are thankful for this holiday season. Above all, we are preparing to celebrate the birth of Christ, the true reason for the season, which fills our community with hope and a beautiful sense of togetherness.
We kicked off our celebrations with our annual Christmas Chapel today, where we worshipped together and reflected on the true meaning of Christmas. Next Wednesday, December 17, our campus will come alive with our Christmas performances. Grades K–2 and 3–5 will both have a matinee and an evening program, giving families multiple opportunities to enjoy the creativity, hard work, and Christmas cheer our students have poured into their productions.
The excitement continues with Christmaspalooza on Friday, December 19, which is one of our cherished traditions at Frederickson. Students will shop the student-run Christmas marketplace using their hard-earned classroom economy bucks. This experience always brings big smiles and even bigger surprises as they carefully choose gifts for family, friends, and teachers. Students sell all types of fun things, from homemade baked goods to 3D printed items and even handmade trinkets. And don’t forget it’s also Color Wars with Christmas accessories! We can’t wait to see students showing off their Cougar spirit mixed with festive Christmas fun for a chance to welcome the Frederickson Cougar to their classroom and earn a celebration after break.
Our families make this season shine even brighter, and there are so many wonderful ways to get involved. Volunteers are welcome to join us for the Festival of Trees, where beautifully decorated Christmas trees will display the ornaments created by our students. Our beloved Holiday Cookies tradition will also return, providing every child with a festive treat after the evening performances. And for those looking to bless our staff, we have “All About Me” forms ready with thoughtful gift ideas to help you celebrate the incredible team who invests so much in our students.
This month is truly one of the most joyful times on our campus, filled with fun, celebration, and opportunities to see God at work. As we experience the energy and excitement of the season, may we also be reminded that we are people Called for a Purpose to love well, serve wholeheartedly, and shine the light of Jesus wherever we go. We look forward to celebrating with you all month long!
Called to be Rooted and Established
December 03, 2025
Each December, we all hear the familiar saying, “Jesus is the reason for the season.” If I’m honest, I’ve said it more often as a platitude rather than as a genuine reminder that there is a deeper meaning to the Christmas season. It wasn’t until I had kids of my own that the beauty of the incarnation started to take root. One night, while rocking my infant daughter to sleep in the light of the Christmas tree, I was struck by her tenderness and vulnerability. Picturing our Savior in that same state drove home for me the outrageously sweet gift that is the incarnation of Christ. The Almighty Creator of heaven and earth, the Great I Am—God, through Jesus Christ, took on the weakness and frailty of humanity. His arrival, a startling act of love, was His response to our sin, pain, and suffering.
Our theme for December, coming from Ephesians 3:17–19 (NIV), is Called to be Rooted and Established. Within those verses, Paul writes, “And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”
The love of Christ was demonstrated by His willingness not only to be born into fragile humanity, but also to live a life in perfect obedience. He took on the punishment that we deserved. He conquered the powers of sin and death. This love does, indeed, “surpass knowledge,” and yet we can know and experience it through the gift of grace. How would our homes, workplaces, and communities be transformed if we moved into this month living truly rooted and established in that awesome and powerful love of Christ? Is there anything better for us to be “rooted and established” in?
As His followers, our celebration of Christmas is not the abstract celebration of a birth—it is the celebration of the reality of God’s love. He heard the cries and desperation of His people in need; He responded in an unbelievable act of self-sacrificing love; and, moreover, He will return one day and bring us home to heaven with Him.
May you be in awe of the truth of God’s Word, of His amazing love, and His saving grace. May that love extend into your home, office, school, and community as you share the good news. May you be ever more rooted and established in the broad, high, and deep love of Christ.
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A Reason to Sing, and a Spirit that Stays with us All Year Long.
November 19, 2025
I hope you are all getting excited about our upcoming Christmas programs at Frederickson Campus. The kiddos are working hard and shining brightly as always! This year, our littles’ program will especially appeal to those of you who start listening to your Christmas music in early November. Kindergarten through second grade classes are preparing to sing some wonderful Christmas songs, tell the Christmas story from the Bible, and discuss the reason why we can joyfully, loudly, and boldly sing at Christmastime!
Our older grades (third through fifth) will tell the story of two sisters who ask a relatable question: Why can’t Christmas come every day? Join them as they journey back to the manger to remember the real reason why Christmas is important and learn about the Spirit that stays with us all the time, keeping the true joy of Christmas alive all year.
These kiddos impress me every year with the amazing things that they are capable of—from singing and motions, to dances, to sign language, to acting! You won’t want to miss their amazing performances on December 17. See you there!
Sing to him a new song; play skillfully, and shout for joy.
—Psalm 33:3 (NIV)
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Director’s Notes – You Can’t Take It With You
November 11, 2025
As I write this, I am sitting in the Forum Deo Gloria PAC looking at an unpainted set that was lovingly built by many parents, students, and staff over the weekend. Our Production Workshop class and the cast will be painting it, bringing color and pattern to its bare, rough walls. As the week progresses, student actors will continue to rehearse and bring to life comedic characters written in the 1930s. Next week we will add lights, sound cues, microphones, and costumes. The following week, November 20–22, we will add the final element, the audience, who will experience the story for the first time and hopefully come to love its quirky characters and uplifting message as much as we have through this process.
This massive collaborative art form, theatre, brings together people from all walks of life. Among others, we need individuals skilled in construction who understand how pieces of raw material can come together to form a whole; visual artists who use their imaginations to envision another place and time and use their talent to transport audiences there; and actors who use their instruments of voice, physicality, and expression to embody another person’s experience and explore how humans interact with each other in times of conflict and moments of connection.
This whole process recalls the letter Paul wrote to the church at Ephesus (and likely other churches) in the first century. In Ephesians 1:10 Paul explains God’s purpose is to bring all things in heaven and earth together in Christ. As the letter goes on, he explores the multifaceted wisdom of God in choosing to do this through the story of the people of Israel, which culminates in Israel’s Messiah, Jesus. Through Him, God brought the gentiles into His chosen family. Now that blessing can extend to all humanity! Paul also describes powers, both physical and unseen, that separate and divide. He contrasts these divisive powers with God’s purpose to unify all things in Christ.
The story of the Bible, and a central theme in Ephesians, is about God bringing two different families together. How interesting that this could also describe the basic plot of our play! Moreover, putting on a play is a big project that brings together people with diverse backgrounds and abilities. God’s big project to heal the cosmos in Jesus unites people from different ethnic, religious, and socio-economic backgrounds into the one eternal family of our Creator. He planned before time how we would show His wisdom to the cosmic powers as we, His followers, grow together into a dwelling fit for His Spirit. We live out His calling as we represent Jesus to this hurting world, bringing healing and unity wherever we find brokenness.
Maybe this play appears to be just a sweet, little, old-fashioned comedy—but, in God’s wisdom, maybe the servant-hearted community that brought this project together and the unity our story points to as an ideal could really represent a tiny working model of new creation.
