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Over 1,000 visitors came to watch the depiction of the life of Jesus at the annual Journey to the Cross Easter pageant last Sabbath on the Campion campus. Throughout the day, five shows were put on by more than 200 volunteers in a collaboration between Campion Academy, Campion Church and HMS Richards Adventist School.
The audience began with a program in the church which explained the great controversy between God and Satan, and why the plan of salvation was necessary. This year’s drama featured the story from the eyes of the angel Gabriel, who served as the narrator. Starting in the throne room of heaven, the actors depicted how evil began and Lucifer gained the trust of the other angels, causing it to affect Adam and Eve, and the entire human race after both disobeyed God. Moving to the HMS Richards School gymnasium, visitors experienced a mini-Jerusalem village and witnessed scenes of Jesus healing lepers, the blind, and even raising the dead. Next, student actors portraying the disciples led the crowd in hosannas and followed Jesus riding on a horse to the next scenes in the Campion gymnasium. The final scenes included the Last Supper, the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus’ death on the cross, and finally his resurrection after defeating Satan and overcoming evil. Each year, Journey to the Cross has grown in scope and this year reached the goal of having 1,000 visitors to experience the story of salvation. The quality of the production from sound, acting, and costumes represented countless hours of preparation by the coordinators, Natalie Barton, Erin Johnson, and Leandro Bizama as well as the actors and other volunteers. Gabriel Costa, Student News Team
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This past Friday, students at Campion Academy took a day off from school to serve the community around Loveland.
Students divided into groups and completed different jobs such as picking up trash in the park and along highways, sorting donations at Habitat for Humanity, making quilts and collecting cans for the House of Neighborly Service. Brayden Marroquin, senior, shared, “It was a lot of fun cleaning up the highway with my friends and just having a good time waving at the people passing by.” Some students stayed on campus and helped out in the cafeteria to serve the Rocky Mountain Conference middle school students. Misha Newbold, senior, shared, “Working in the cafeteria was long and tiring, but in the end I felt good because I was serving others”. Yngrid Silva, Student News Team This past weekend Campion Academy hosted the annual Rocky Mountain Music Festival where 150 students from all over the conference gathered for two days of intense practice culminating in a Sabbath concert.
Megan Oroko, a Campion graduate, served as the festival clinician. Students in grades five through eight came from 11 different schools to attend the event organized by the Rocky Mountain Conference. Naomi Fernandez, music director at Campion, stated, “It was inspiring to hear the joy and musicality of the future generation of musicians in Saturday’s festival performance.” Rodolfo Segawa, Student News Team Last Sunday, the junior class treated the seniors to a fun banquet that started off with tacos and ended with laser tag.
Instead of a fancy dinner, students went to a local taco place in Loveland, where they chose between four different types of tacos, a drink, and a dessert. Senior, Christian Zeru commented, “I really liked the tacos and horchata. It was really nice getting to spend some final moments with my class.” From there, students and staff headed to Loveland laser tag. Students got to choose between an assortment of arcade games as well as a ropes course and, of course, laser tag. Senior, Bela P reflected on her experience saying, “It was my first and sadly last junior-senior banquet but it was a really fun experience. I really enjoyed the activities. My favorite ones were laser tag and the ropes course.” Many juniors shared their excitement including Keren Simba who expressed, “Banquet was really good! I had so much fun being with my friends and playing laser tag with Mr. H was super cool.” Sergio added, “I really loved my time. It was fun playing all the different games, especially Piano Tiles.” Alexandra Cordoba, Student News Team During the Rocky Mountain Music Festival, the music departments of Campion Academy and Mile High Academy joined forces and put on a vespers concert. Each ensemble performed two pieces and Koinonia and Mile High Academy's choir, joined together to sing a song they learned at the Union Music Festival.
Campion Academy’s touring ensembles, Koinonia, Handbells, and Jazz Band embarked on their highly anticipated music tour last week, performing at schools and churches in both Colorado and New Mexico.
The first stop was a performance at Vista Ridge Academy. Students delivered their Pop’s concert songs to an audience of middle schoolers. After their performance, they hit the road for the eight-hour journey to Santa Fe, New Mexico. A highlight of the trip was a stop for lunch at the Olympic Park in Colorado Springs, where the group had the chance to tour the Olympic Training Center. The next morning, the groups performed for Sandía View Academy in New Mexico. Their performance was so well received that the audience requested an encore. Senior Toby Quillin, who performed in all three ensembles, reflected on the experience: “I really enjoyed performing for everyone. It was inspiring to minister to others through music in three different ways.” Following the performance, students had the opportunity to unwind with four hours of fun at the Main Event, a gaming center with an arcade, bowling, and laser tag. Later that evening, they held a vespers concert for Albuquerque Heights Church. Here they debuted Koinonia’s newest sacred song, “Moses.” The next morning, students traveled to AdventLife Church in Santa Fe, where they led part of the church service. The tour wrapped up on Sunday, when they had to travel six hours back to campus. Junior Izuchi Nwankwo reflected on the experience, saying, “It was fun to journey for the Lord, keeping steadfast faith even when we weren’t sure what would happen next. It was a powerful experience that greatly strengthened my faith.” Alexandra Cordoba, Student Editor Campion’s ski and snowboard club hit the slopes at Copper Mountain on their three-day trip this past weekend. They were thrilled to experience both fresh powder and sunshine on Sunday and warm Spring conditions on Monday.
The Leadville Seventh-day Adventist Church generously hosted the students in their basement and bunk room. After beating a snow storm by driving up Friday evening, the students put on the church service for the local members on Sabbath. The Students with a Testimony (SWAT) trip is an annual ski club tradition and the members enjoy fellowshiping with the students. Another tradition of the trip is sledding after church. “Sledding is always one of the most enjoyable parts of ski trip for me, and that’s mostly because you get to see the “science” skills of the students truly emerge as everyone puts their best efforts together to see exactly how far (and more importantly, how fast) the sledder can truly go,” explained Euan O’Keeffe, senior. This year, Jack Jordan brought a collapsible shovel and created jumps for the tubes. After sending people sailing off the first one, they built a second jump further down the hill. O’Keefe continued, “We truly sought to answer the question, ‘How many ramps is a reasonable number to go down?’ The answer was one. Of the three people who were able to get down to hit the second ramp, three crashed. Great memories!” On the ski days, the students grouped up according to ability, and they all challenged each other to improve their skills and try harder runs. Elin Sorensen, one of the expert skiers, shared, “On Monday, Jack, Zach, Addison and I set a goal to ski as many runs as possible in the morning. It was fun because we were just going really fast and we were able to touch many different runs on the mountain.” New to Ski Club this year, Joshua Profir, a freshman, commented, “The best part of ski club is getting to know people you’ve never really talked to before, then becoming friends with them, and then getting to ski with those friends.” Overall, the days in the beautiful Colorado mountains offered a chance for the club members to improve their skiing and snowboarding skills while enjoying each other’s company. Jill Harlow, Communication Director Working full days in heat and humidity, 29 Campion students and 16 staff transformed the facilities of the King’s Children’s Home in Belmopan, Belize over Campion’s Spring Break, March 9 to 16.
Managed by Pastor Paul Cassanova, King’s Children’s Home (KCH) is an independent Seventh-day Adventist establishment which houses children whose parents are unable to take care of them for a variety of reasons. The major project for the week was constructing, painting, and installing framed screens on over 80 windows on their dorm rooms. The crew tackled other large projects including repainting the church and common areas, rebuilding bleachers, installing a street light, digging a drainage trench, and multiple other improvement projects. Misha Newbold, senior at Campion, commented, “The hardest part about this trip was working in the hot Belize sun. There were several things that could have set us back but we found our way around them. I found that the work we did for KCH felt fulfilling because in the end we were serving people and showing them Christ through what we did.” One of the setbacks was the rented bus breaking down on the first day of the trip. The local mechanic said he would not be able to repair it, so Pastor Paul called a mechanic he knew who specialized in bus repair but lived in a city over three hours away. Miraculously, the mechanic happened to be traveling and was only three blocks away from where the bus had broken down. He was able to immediately come over and work on the bus and had it repaired by that evening. In addition, the painting crew faced some challenges with having to repaint due to color issues. Sherlin Vasquez-Hernandez recalled, “We were expecting some struggles because not everything goes as planned and it happened.” First, the crew spent a few hours painting frames before being told they were using the wrong color. Then, when they ran out of paint while painting the church, they discovered the new bucket they had begun using was not a match to the first coat. Vasquez-Hernandez continued, “It was a blessing to just see the others pushing through and not letting it get to us. We just kept painting and helping in what we could. It was ‘unBelizeable.’” Ultimately, they finished more painting projects than the director had planned for them with all the correct colors! In the end, the crew was very productive and able to accomplish much more than expected. “‘Belize’ it or not I also was blessed to go on the mission trip,” commented Jack Jordan, senior. “We were given a long list of tasks that we needed to complete during the week. Just as the sun dipped below the horizon on Friday we had finished them all. God truly blessed our work during this trip.” In addition to the work, the group took a day excursion to snorkel and explore the island of Caye Caulker. “The whole day was just a wonderful experience, start to finish,” Euan O’Keefe, senior, shared. “It began by feeding tarpon fish, and the things were as big as me and about as hungry too! We dangled sardines in front of them and they leapt so far out of the water to get to us it’s a wonder none of them ended up in the boat with us. I did it twice, the first time went perfectly fine, about as expected, but the second one must have overshot. He almost took my hand with him! Ended up biting my hand up to the wrist, but now I know what the inside of a tarpon’s mouth is like. Wet. Warm. Slimy. Generally unpleasant.” Sarah Rushold, senior, furthered, “We saw beautiful coral and swam with nurse sharks and stingrays. The water was ‘unBelizeably’ clear and blue. It was really awesome to see all the creatures that God created.” The last day of the trip was Sabbath, so the Campion students, organized by Pastor Josh Hestor, led out in a vespers and church service for the children. “It was really fun to put together the worship services and I was trying to help them remember what Pastor Josh had been preaching about all week,” said Natalie Bryant, freshman. “It was really a blessing to see their smiles and hear them singing and laughing during the service.” After church on Sabbath the group climbed pyramids at ancient Mayan ruins. The trip was organized by Chaplain Lindsey Santana with the help of Bill Hay who had been on mission trips to Belize 13 times. “It was super intimidating coming into this year as chaplain, knowing the school wanted me to plan and organize a mission trip,” shared Santana. “I had never planned an international trip for a group, and when it became clear that 46 individuals wanted to go to Belize I knew God was going to have to take the reins in order for the trip to become a reality. Prayers were answered when Bill Hay, who has travelled to King’s Children’s Home several times, committed to helping.” Santana furthered, “Our group of sponsors included individuals who knew their way with power tools but also loved interacting with teenagers. Miracles happened when each student became fully funded right before we left. Time and again I saw the hand of God blessing and guiding in the minutiae of planning this trip and his hand on the actual trip itself. I think the students are returning with full hearts and wonderful memories.” Jill Harlow, Communication Director Despite frigid temperatures and an even worse wind chill, the girls also came out strong, winning 7 to 0 against a team they lost to last season, Evergreen High School.
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