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Current 2 June 5, 2008<br />
<strong>Bear</strong> <strong>Creek</strong><br />
Current<br />
MiSSion<br />
Current is the student voice<br />
of <strong>Bear</strong> <strong>Creek</strong>, providing a<br />
quality, thought-provoking,<br />
entertaining and responsible<br />
student newsmagazine. With the<br />
exception of the opinion section,<br />
editorial content is limited to<br />
work produced by <strong>Bear</strong> <strong>Creek</strong><br />
students.<br />
aDVerTiSinG<br />
Current will only run advertising<br />
that supports the mission of <strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>Bear</strong> <strong>Creek</strong> <strong>School</strong>. All advertisements<br />
are subject to final approval<br />
by the journalism adviser.<br />
Current reserves the right to edit<br />
or reject any advertisement for<br />
any reason at any time prior to<br />
publication. Current reserves the<br />
right to alter and amend those<br />
advertisements not accurately<br />
meeting the technical specifications.<br />
All advertisers assume the<br />
responsibility of abiding by the<br />
terms and conditions of our Advertising<br />
Policies.<br />
leTTerS To <strong>The</strong> eDiTor<br />
Current welcomes letters to<br />
the editor. Letters must be less<br />
than 500 words and include the<br />
author's name and phone number.<br />
Anonymous letters will not be<br />
printed. <strong>The</strong> editor reserves the<br />
right to edit for length and clarity.<br />
Submission does not guarantee<br />
publication.<br />
ConTribuTinG WriTerS<br />
Current welcomes submission of<br />
articles by TBCS students. Please<br />
contact the journalism adviser for<br />
specific requirements.<br />
STaff<br />
Kara Heiser, Editor<br />
Alex Amela<br />
Kelly Chase<br />
Conner Morgan<br />
Adelaide Tillinghast<br />
Georgina Wadhwani-Napp<br />
Mrs. Sanger, Adviser<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Bear</strong> <strong>Creek</strong> SChool<br />
8905 208th Ave. NE<br />
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next issue: September 2008<br />
OpiniOn<br />
adeeperlook<br />
<strong>The</strong> alpha and the omega:<br />
the God who finishes what he starts<br />
This<br />
Q&A<br />
Sam Pomeroy<br />
Contributing Writer<br />
Our culture is focused on the product. <strong>The</strong> end<br />
result is the primary thing examined, and often times<br />
it is irrelevant how the product reached its' finished<br />
state. Anywhere from building ipods, building<br />
skyscrapers, or even building a better you by surgeries<br />
and procedures—each thing is constructed with one<br />
purpose: to reach the product.<br />
Is not the purpose of starting a task, a project<br />
or an idea to finish it? We as humans seek product.<br />
And so if things have an end, they indeed must have<br />
a beginning as well.<br />
Products that are left unfinished are discarded,<br />
deleted or destroyed. It is natural and it makes sense.<br />
No one wants an ipod that has no display screen. No<br />
one wants a skyscraper without stairs. Imagine if you<br />
went to the car dealership and the salesman tried to<br />
sell you a car that was missing the tires!<br />
<strong>The</strong> unfinished product is a reflection upon<br />
the producer: if a product is unfinished, the producer<br />
itself is of no value.<br />
In the strictest sense of the term, God is a<br />
producer, a creator. <strong>The</strong> first chapter of the Bible is<br />
year has flown by and<br />
the journalism staff wants<br />
to take a retrospective<br />
point of view in this final<br />
issue of Current for this<br />
year. Whether your best<br />
memory is a school<br />
dance, a mission trip or achieving that 110<br />
percent in a class, it’s always worth while to<br />
take your past memories out of the attic and<br />
dust them off. For the sake of nostalgia in this<br />
issue, the Current staff asks,<br />
What is your favorite memory of this year?<br />
one big exaltation of God’s creative powers. If one<br />
studies the Bible, it is evident that the God in control<br />
is a God that has a plan from beginning to end. <strong>The</strong><br />
Bible is not a confusion of choices; it is a story of<br />
grace. Knowing a God that planned each life and<br />
each event down to the pinprick is something that<br />
we cannot fathom.<br />
Know one thing: that when you become a<br />
Christ follower, He starts something. He starts a<br />
transformation, a process you will undergo for the<br />
rest of your life. <strong>The</strong> start marks the beginning of<br />
your own adventure with Christ. And as the God who<br />
finishes what He starts, He wants to finish what He<br />
started in you.<br />
God loves you; He loves His creation. He made<br />
you with a specific purpose and He is preparing and<br />
transforming you into who He has called you to be.<br />
Yet, here is the truth: God cannot finish what He<br />
started if you do not give Him control and give Him<br />
first place in your life.<br />
If God has started something in you, it is the<br />
cry of His heart that you may follow Him with your<br />
life so that He may take joy in finishing in you what<br />
He started so long ago.<br />
. . . Musicale,<br />
because we got to<br />
be judged for real,<br />
and the food was<br />
amazingly good.<br />
hayley Jensen<br />
Grade 9<br />
. . . the missions<br />
trip, because<br />
it was a great<br />
experience and I<br />
got to serve other<br />
people.<br />
Cameron Kesinger<br />
Grade 9
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