Jane Frickey from Lifewise Academy tells us about this exciting new program coming to Mount Vernon City Schools! She tells us about what Lifewise Academy is, how she got involved, and how you can sign your student up to join the program!
Go to lifewise.org/interest/, type in your school district, and click “visit school district page” to sign up and learn more.
WNZR’s Marcy Rinehart talked with representatives from Central Ohio Technical College about the high school collections happening around Knox County. COTC has challenged local high schools to collect food and funds to support Food For The Hungry. Marcy talked with Shawn Dugan, Ambassador and Student at COTC and Nicole Thompson, Admissions Representative for COTC Knox Campus.
Click HERE to hear their conversation.
Here are the collection dates for Knox County High Schools:
The top collecting school in the city and in the county will be recognized with a traveling plaque sponsored by COTC to recognize the school accomplishment.
The Central Knox County Award will go to either Mount Vernon or the Knox County Career Center. The Greater Knox County Award will go to one of these schools: Centerburg, Danville, East Knox or Fredericktown. Each year, the winning school’s name will be added to the traveling plaque.
Cash donations are welcome. $1.00 = 4 food items.
One representative from each school will be invited to participate in the Food For The Hungry live broadcast on 12/14 at The Knox County Memorial Theatre.
This week, The Morning Thing shined the spotlight on local theater productions.
This year, Mount Vernon City Schools are presenting a unique opportunity for middle and high school students. Students have been working with Professional Mime, Stephen Chips. They will present “An Evening of Mime Theater” on 11/8 and 11/9 at the Mount Vernon High School Theater. Show time for both nights is 7pm. Tickets are $8.00 and available 30 minutes before each show.
Click HERE to hear Teacher/Producer Marty Bell talk about why she chose Mime for the fall production.
Click HERE to hear from Professional Mime, Stephen Chips.
Click HERE to hear from several students performing at “An Evening of Mime Theater”.
The Morning Thing joined over 30 students at Mount Vernon High School this morning to celebrate See You at the Pole – the global day of student prayer.
A few local churches were on site with donuts and milk for the students who participated in the event.
See You at the Pole began in 1990 as a grass roots movement with ten students praying at their school. Over twenty years later, millions pray on their campuses on the fourth Wednesday in September.
See You at the Pole is simply a prayer rally where students meet at the school flagpole before school to lift up their friends, families, teachers, school, and nation to God.
See You at the Pole is a student-initiated, student-organized, and student-led event.
The 2019 See You at the Pole theme is “If My People Pray”.
The theme verse is 2 Chronicles 7:14 – If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
From that very first year in 1990, See You at the Pole has been about one simple act—prayer. Today, SYATP is still about students humbling themselves, turning to God, and interceding for their generation.
Please let us know what is happening at YOUR SCHOOL! Email wnzr@mvnu.edu and tell us about your plans for See You at the Pole and what happened at your school!
The See You at the Pole Story
A small group of teenagers in Burleson, Texas, came together for a DiscipleNow weekend in early 1990. They came seeking God and little did they know how powerfully He was about to move. On Saturday night their hearts were penetrated like never before, when they became broken before God and burdened for their friends. Compelled to pray, they drove to three different schools that night. Not knowing exactly what to do, they went to the school flagpoles and prayed for their friends, schools, and leaders. Those students had no idea how God would use their obedience.
God used what He did among those teenagers and others who were holding similar prayer meetings at their schools to birth a vision in the hearts of youth leaders across Texas. The vision was that students throughout Texas would follow these examples and meet at their school flagpoles to pray simultaneously. The challenge was named See You at the Pole at a brainstorming session during a meeting of key youth leaders. The vision was shared with 20,000 students in June 1990 at Reunion Arena in Dallas, Texas.
Only God had envisioned how many students would step up to the challenge. At 7:00 a.m. on September 12, 1990, more than 45,000 teenagers met at school flagpoles in four different states to pray before the start of school. Reports came into toll-free number for days after the first event.
A few months later, a group of youth ministers from all over the country gathered together for a national conference in Colorado. Many of them reported that their students had heard about the prayer movement in Texas and were equally burdened for their schools. No other events had been planned, but it was clear that students across the country would be creating their own national day of student prayer. There was no stopping them.
On September 11, 1991, at 7:00 a.m., an estimated one million students gathered at school flagpoles all over the country. From Boston, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles, California, from North Dakota to the tip of Texas, students came together to pray. Some sang, some read Scripture, but most importantly, they prayed. Like those first students, they prayed for their schools, for their friends, for their leaders, and for their country.
As in all great movements of prayer, See You at the Pole did not begin in the hearts of people. It began in the heart of God. God used the obedience of a small group of teenagers to ignite what has become an international movement of prayer among young people.
Since 1991, See You at the Pole has grown to God-sized proportions. Within the first few years, the movement began to spread to other nations through missionaries from the U.S. Now each year, more than 3 million students from all over the world participate in See You at the Pole. Students in more than 20 countries take part. In places like Canada, Korea, Japan, Turkey, and the Ivory Coast, students are responding to God and taking seriously the challenge to pray.
God is continuing to call His people to repentance and prayer. Countless inspiring testimonies of how He has used See You at the Pole to bring students to Christ and to change lives affirm God’s power to answer those who cry out to Him in humble dependence. Bible clubs, weekly prayer meetings, and other ministries have begun on campuses where students participated in See You at the Pole.
For more information about See You At The Pole, go to http://syatp.com/
You’ve read her books, now see her show!
Junie B. Jones the Musical is coming to Mount Vernon!
Join Mount Vernon City Schools as they bring the beloved children’s story book character to life in their fall production.
It’s a fast paced, family friendly show featuring Mount Vernon students from grades 4 through 12.
See Junie B. Jones as she starts a 1st Grade school year filled with new friends, a kickball tournament, getting glasses, and a “Top-Secret Personal Beeswax Journal.”
Show dates are November 9th at 7:30 pm and November 10th at 2:30 and 7:30 pm. All performances are in the Mount Vernon High School Theater.
You don’t want to miss out! Tickets for each show are $8. For more info visit
www.mvcsd.us
WNZR’s Marcy Rinehart had a chance to chat with several cast members about their experiences with this production. Take a listen! (Click on the name to hear the conversation)
Malaya Sherman plays Junie B. Jones
Ellie Martin plays Josephina
Abigail Wagner plays Shenille, Jersey Monroe plays Camille and Leslie Bell plays Lucille
Marcy also talked with Director, Marty Bell about how exciting this cast has been to work with. Click HERE to hear their conversation.
WNZR gives a rating for each theatrical production that we promote on our station. Click HERE for that information.
WNZR’s Rachel Rinehart talked with local band directors about the upcoming Tops and Pops Concert.
Andrew Sundman, Mount Vernon High School Band Director and Megan Auhbil, Mount Vernon Middle School Band Director talked about the concert, the formation of the Knox County Jazz Orchestra and how students at Mount Vernon City Schools can get involved with the music department. Click HERE to hear their conversation.
The concert will held this Friday, 4/28/17 at 7pm at the Middle School Commons.
WNZR is proud to support youth in our community.
This weekend, you have a chance to see 30 students from middle and high school perform in a musical at Mount Vernon High School Theater.
Mount Vernon Middle School and High School will present the musical, “Once Upon a Mattress”. The musical will be held on Friday, November 4 and Saturday, November 5 at 7:30pm in the Mount Vernon High School Theater.
Tickets are $8 for reserved seating. Tickets can be purchased at the door at each performance or by calling or texting Kati Bockover at (740) 627-0664. Tickets will also be sold in the theater lobby on Monday, October 31 through Thursday, November 3 from 6:30pm- 8:30pm.
If you thought you knew the story of ‘The Princess and The Pea,’ you may be in for a walloping surprise! Did you know that Princess Winnifred actually swam the moat to reach Prince Dauntless the Drab? Or that, in fact, it wasn’t the pea at all that caused the princess a sleepless night? Carried on a wave of wonderful songs, by turns hilarious and raucous, romantic and melodic, this rollicking spin on the familiar classic of royal courtship and just deserts provides for some side-splitting shenanigans. Chances are you’ll never look at fairy tales quite the same way again. This production of “Once Upon a Mattress” features a cast of 30 students, with middle and high school performers.
Click HERE to hear conversations with several cast members.
For more information, contact Director, Mrs. Marty Bell at 740-393-5900, ext. 5909.
Rise and Shine 