"This is the place for me!"
School Hours
Pre-K8:00 and 12:00 am. Kindergarten, Grades 1 through
4 8:00 and 3:30 pm
The school follows the same schedule of days and holidays as the Mercedes ISD. There are two weeks at the Christmas break and a week during the spring semester. There will also be teacher institute days when the teachers are receiving additional training that the students will have off during the year.
New School Year Begins 2010 to 2011
Immanuel Lutheran School looks forward to another exciting year beginning with the Roundup Get Together held on August 3rd. This is the time that teachers and the students get together and sign up for the activities and verify the school records and assignments for the coming year. This year the school is expanding to the fourth grade. The elementary division will be housed in one classroom and will employ the use of study centers to teach each of the subjects. Many of the textbooks that the students will be using are on-line books, allowing students to take home their textbook on their home computer. It is anticipated at the time of this writing that the school will have over 33 students in all grades. The teachers have completed a certification program in Early Childhood education through an extension class of Concordia University in Austin. During the last two years the school has been a major evangelism outreach of the church recruiting new families to Immanuel.
History of Lutheran Education
The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod has a long history of Christian education dating back to its founding in the small backwoods of Missouri in the early 1830s. The Church has long recognized the value of training up children in both academics and Christian learning to help build "Growing children in mind and Christ."
Immanuel Lutheran Church School dates back to the early founding of the church at the turn of the twentieth century. The school and the church survived drought, depression, hurricanes and even bandit raids south of the border.
One constant through out the history of the school has been the dedication of Teachers, Staff and Pastors to the mission of educating children in mind and Christ.
New for school year 2010 to 2011 we have the
fourth grade and full day Kindergarten.
The school children blessed the members of Immanuel with their singing on March 20th. The children learn a pair of songs each quarter with the aim to sing for family and church members during the regular church service. This particular Sunday they sang two songs from the Songs for the Masses collection for Children. This is a group of Lutheran song writers located in Hermitage, TN. They are members of Immanuel Lutheran. The children have practiced these songs with Pastor Edge during their weekly chapel time and during their regular Jesus class time. The first song is about how we are the Salt and the Light of the Earth. The children liked this song because it has a rock beat. Zachary, one of the Kinder kids says it has a good beat as he bops his head to the rhythm. The other song was call Follow Me is about Jesus choosing the first disciples. Pastor Edge says that the songs help enforce the Bible lessons that are taught during the regular Bible time. The children make a point of letting anyone know that they see their singing as their out reach to people who come to hear them.
