KING’S ACADEMY

c/o Reformation Covenant Church
1201 JQ Adams St. Oregon City, OR 97045

(503) 656-9444

info@ka-oc.org

Students, parents, board members, faculty, and friends of King’s Academy are all cordially invited to the KA End of the Year Party. Students will show off work that they have done throughout the year and also celebrate the completion of another year of studies. This year we are excited to anounce that two graduates will be receiving diplomas at this event (Josiah Evans and Amber Fukuda). Mark your calendars for Thursday, June 5, 7:00 p.m.

The applause for the May 2 and May 9 performances of “King’s Academy Goes to Broadway” hasn’t begun to die down yet. Both shows were a great success, with sold out crowds and rave reviews. Abigail Lortz provided a delicious three course dinner, Laurie Phelan and Coleen Darden amazed us with the lavish period costumes, and the students at King’s Academy sang their hearts out with songs from The Wizard of Oz, The Scarlet Pimpernel, and The Phantom of the Opera. Pete and Brenda from 104.1 fm The Fish emceed an exciting auction and raffle. Although the final numbers have not yet been tallied, we’re sure that we’ve exceeded our $4000 goal for this fundraiser. Congratulations, everyone, on a job well done!  

“King’s Academy goes to Broadway,” a dinner theater produced by KA, is less than three weeks away from its debut performance. The show features musical numbers from three popular Broadway shows: The Wizard of Oz, The Phantom of the Opera, and The Scarlet Pimpernel. Last year, King’s Academy’s “Gilbert & Sullivan Dinner Theater” received high acclaim, and this year promises to be even better with lavish costumes, clever choreography, and soaring vocals. Miss Abigail Lortz will be catering the event with a multi-course extravaganza. All showings will be held in the fellowship hall of Reformation Covenant Church. See the schedule below.

DRESS REHEARSAL MATINEE - 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 30

This show is designed for home school moms and preschool or elementary age children, although people of all ages are welcome. There will be no dinner or auction at this show, just the musical performances. The price is $2 each or $10 per family payable at the door. You do not need to contact us or pre-purchase tickets for this showing.

FIRST SHOWING - 7:00 p.m., Friday, May 2

Musical performance accompanied by dinner and an auction/raffle. Limited number of 80 seats available. Tickets are $20 each ($10 tax deductible) and must be purchased in advance. Contact Patti Evans if you would like to order tickets (503.657.7542 or EvansBP1@aol.com). Make checks payable to “King’s Academy.”

SECOND SHOWING - 7:00 p.m., Friday, May 9

Musical performance accompanied by dinner and an auction/raffle. Limited number of 80 seats available. Tickets are $20 each ($10 tax deductible) and must be purchased in advance. Contact Patti Evans if you would like to order tickets (503.657.7542 or EvansBP1@aol.com). Make checks payable to “King’s Academy.”

If you have any questions, you can contact Rose Lortz (360.601.1376 or RoseLZ18@yahoo.com)

King’s Academy will be participating in a “World War II Day” on Friday, April 18, in conjunction with the Reformation Covenant Church homeschoolers. Dave Tooze’s parents will be sharing their wartime experiences as will a friend of Kelli Roach who experienced the Nazi occupation in Holland. The event will begin with lunch at 12:00 p.m., and then continue with a sharing time and questions and answers. This event is open to all–King’s Academy students are encouraged to invite their parents, siblings, and friends to come.

King’s Academy will be having an etiquette breakfast for the students on Thursday, Feb. 14, with food graciously provided by Sharon Wilson. Parents, please send in $3 with each student on or before Feb. 14 to cover the cost of the food. If you are paying by check, please make it payable to “Rose Lortz.”

King’s Academy’s Winter Term will begin Thursday, January 3, at 8:00 a.m. (contrary to the date January 2 published in the Student Handbook). See you at school!

You are invited to a Scotch tasting fundraiser for King’s Academy on Saturday, December 29th from noon to 4pm at Steve Sykes house in Oregon City.

This event is $40 per person and $75 per couple and will include Scotch tasting and lunch.

You may also attend for $10, which includes lunch only. Please BYOB and cigars.

All 21 and over are encouraged to attend.

Please contact Gary Barnard or Dan Prentice by December 22nd to purchase Scotch tasting tickets for this event.

The dates for the King’s Academy Dinner Theater have been set for May 2 and May 9. Barb Kennedy and Debbie Fukuda are co-chairing the committee in charge of this fundraiser, and planning is already underway to make this event a success. Since many companies and organizations do their charitable giving either during the holidays or directly at the start of the new year, we would like to seize the day in getting sponsors for the event. Below is information on the kind of sponsors and donations we are looking for. Please read it and see how you can help make the Dinner Theater fundraiser a success.

There are two different kinds of sponsors that we are looking for this year. The first is an Event Sponsor. To be an Event Sponsor for the Dinner Theater, a company, organization, or individual must donate $500 (tax-deductible). In return, the donor will get its name on the tickets, on the front of the program, and on a big banner hung up at the venue. Since we are having two showings, we have the opportunity to have two Event Sponsors.

The second kind of sponsor that we are looking for is a Table Sponsor. To be a Table Sponsor for the Dinner Theater, a company, organization, or individual must donate $100 (tax-deductible). In return, the donor will get its name in the program and a full color flyer inside of a table tent on one of the tables.

You can help us find sponsors for the Dinner Theater among your contacts and circle of acquaintances. If you know someone who would like to become either an Event Sponsor or a Table Sponsor, please contact Barb Kennedy. She will arrange to collect the sponsor’s money and get the sponsor’s information for the program. Barb’s phone number is 503-307-0669. Her e-mail address is barbkennedy@kw.com.

Besides sponsors who will donate money, we also need to find donors for the auction and the raffle. Raffle and auction items could be almost anything: gift certificates for a product or a service, concert tickets, gift baskets from a business, etc. If you know someone who would like to donate a product or service, please contact Debbie Fukuda with their name, number, address, and description of the item to be donated. Debbie’s phone number is 503-631-4163. Her e-mail address is S18025@aol.com.

The King’s Academy Choir had two performances last week: one for the Oregon City Pastors’ Prayer Luncheon and one for the Love INC fundraiser. For both of these performances, we sang “The Midnight Cry,” a song from the Southern Harmony tradition with lyrics about the parable of the seven wise and seven foolish virgins. The attendees at the Pastors’ Luncheon responded very enthusiastically to our performance, and one of the pastors has invited to us to sing special music for a worship service at his church in December–so if we can work that into the calendar, we may have another music performance coming up.