The vision of Community Christian School is to assist parents in providing a Christ-centered education for their children including a Biblical world-view and academic excellence in order to prepare them for a life of service.
Welcome to CCS Orange
What a wise parent you are to consider a Christian education for your child. In these uncertain times, few decisions are more important and far-reaching. Community Christian School, organized in 1977 as a ministry of Community Church, is educating students to excel in every aspect of life. We view each student as a unique person, created by God to live the fullest and most significant life possible. We are dedicated to equipping each student to attain the highest standards academically, spiritually, and socially. If you find our school compatible with the goals of your family, we pray that you choose to join our school family.
Catherine Stewart, Founder
2009-2010 CCS News
February 2, 2010
CCS National Junior Honor Society Impacts the Community
At Community Christian School, the NJHS members have put their fundraising efforts to good use. They donated $50 to a local Christian radio station and $100 for Angel Tree gifts for children who go without gifts at Christmas. They helped the Shoebox ministry to send gifts out of the country and bought Bibles for Christians in Russia. During the spring term, they will participate in the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life. All of these projects are completed in addition to their individual service hours. What an outstanding group of dedicated young people!
pictured: the officers of NJHS left to right: president, Lauren Leger; vice-president, Taylor Godwin; secretary, Leah Harrington; treasurer, Faithe Davis
February 2, 2010
CCS Science Rockets Skyward
On a wet, wintry day, the high school students at Community Christian School headed outside to watch the 9th grade IPC Water Rocket Launch. These rockets were designed by the students themselves with the purpose of obtaining the optimum altitude. Congratulations to C.J. Wagner and Brett Foster who won the competition when their water rocket soared 214 feet into the sky.
January 27, 2010
Mrs. Dollar's K5 shows how strong they are with their Shield of Faith.
January 27, 2010
Susie May's K4 science class is learning about animals. They held a Dress Up for the Farm Day and are keeping some pets in the classroom so that they might observe creature behaviors.
January 27, 2010
Kindergarten Learns About Community Helpers
Michelle Dollar and Brandi Hinson recently taiuht their K5 classes about the many helpers in our community. Students dressed up as their favorite helper to show their appreciation.
January 27, 2010
VFW Post 797 of Port Arthur Presents Award to Community Christian School Student
Commander James Goodridge presented Tyler Whitten, 11th grade, the first place award and a scholarship for $400. Tyler recently competed in the Voice of Democracy Contest by writing an outstanding essay.
January 27, 2010
This year for Chapel at Community Christian School, students have requested the opportunity to work with Judy Klein, the Chapel Coordinator and SLi Director. This was instigated through the efforts of Kelsey Beniot, senior, to give Mrs. Klein the unique student perspective and to present ideas for involving the student body. Mrs. Klein and Kelsey formed the Chapel Committee and enlisted the participation of these students: Chelsea Mires, Darrin Cannon, Lauren Jackson, Amy Benoit, Ethan Berwick.
Pictured front left to right: Chelsea Mires, Kelsey Benoit (founder/leader)
back left to right: Darrin Cannon, Lauren Jackson, Amy Benoit, Ethan Berwick
January 20, 2010
2010 ACSI District Spelling Bee
In the recent 2010 ACSI District Spelling Bee, Community Christian School sent Michaela Click, Jonathan Breaux, Josh Howard, Dalton Teeler, Emily Breaux, and Marissa Gray. Jonathan Breaux took 4th place in the 8th grade contest. Josh Howard placed 2nd for 5th grade, and Marissa Gray placed 2nd for 7th grade. Out of 91 contestants, Josh Howard took 5th. Marissa Gray took 4th place overall and advances to the State Spelling Bee to be held in Dallas in March.
Congratulations, Spellers!
January 20, 2010
CCS Basketball On A Run For State
As the basketball season nears its end, the mighty Community Christian School Lions have two varsity teams ranked first in District 8 for TAPPS 1A play. The Lady Lions led by Dan Brack and Alyssa Hale are undefeated, and the Boys' team under Coach Rick Hyman is 12-3. Go Lions!
Let's go to State!
January 20, 2010
After a session of extensive try-outs with Samantha Williams, the music teacher, these students
will advance to Houston on March 4th for ACSI Choir competition.
Front: Rylan Odom, Reagan Hambrick, Michaela Click, Amaris Berwick, Morgan LeBlanc, Danielle Paul, and Lindsay Burns.
Middle: Sabrina West, Josh Howard, Zoey Gotcher, India Alexander, Madison Inman, and Macy LeBlanc.
Back: Justine Sylestine, Briana West, Danielle Gyasi, Tristan Anding, Ciera Cezar, and Devon Mires.
Congratulations to these songbirds.
January 19, 2010
Community Christian Receives Awards from Parent Organization
Karen Mendoza and Coach Ryan Richey are excited about new opportunities. At this month's meeting of PIE (Parents In Education), Karen Mendoza requested funds to update the science lab and to create a new program in which junior high and high school students will form clubs to perform science experiments for elementary students. She received $3500. The 9th-12th grade science club is called Mendoza's Human Elements. The 5th-8th grade club is called Mendoza's Bunsen Burners. Athletic Director Ryan Richey is building a baseball program at CCS and received $3200 to install a windscreen and fence cap, prepare the mounds, bases and field, to create a warming track behind home base, to paint the dugouts and add the school logo, and to purchase 2 L-screens and 1 square screen. Thanks, PIE!!
January 15, 2010
Honor Roll students for the 2nd 9 weeks.
January 14, 2010
Students at Community Christian responded enthusiastically to this year's Young Readers' Week. They dressed up as book characters and brought their flashlights to read in The Reading Galaxy. For A Night Among the Stars, entire families brought lawn chairs and blankets to school to watch a book on DVD as they sat under the stars.
January 14, 2010
At the recent ACSI District Math Olympics for 3rd- 6th grade, Community Christian School students received 44 awards, and 16 students earned the right to advance to Area competition. Congratulations, Students!
Pictured-
Top: Veronique Duprey (adviser); Justin Meaux- Excellent; Josh Howard- Good; Devon Mires- Excellent; Blake Dupre- Excellent, advances to Area; Nate Willet- Excellent, advances to Area, Macy LeBlanc- Excellent; Christian Alford- Superior, advances to Area; Rebecca Tibbitts- Excellent, advances to Area; Emily Breaux- Excellent, advances to Area; Danielle Gyasi- Good; Zoe Gotcher-Excellent, advances to Area
Middle: Allison Le- Excellent, advances to Area; Dalton Teeler- Good; Ethan Williams- Excellent, advances to Area; Jacob Carter- Good; Sabrina Duprey- Superior, advances to Area; Brendan Sylestine- Excellent
Bottom: Lillian Johnson- Good; Kalli Core- Excellent, Kaley Breaux- Good
ACSI Awards Junior High Students at Math Olympics Alayna Bergeron- Excellent, advances to Area; Marissa Gray- Excellent, advances to Area; Blair Dupre- Excellent- advances to Area; Jonathan Breaux- Excellent, advances to Area; Aaron Rose- Superior, advances to Area.
January 14, 2010
The National Honor Society awarded $1000 to Homecoming 2010. Shown is NHS president Amber Akhtar presenting to Sarah Moseley, Student Council president.
January 14, 2010
Capital One-Orange Awards Grant to Community Christian
The local Capital One Bank recently awarded Community Christian a grant for $850 for Science and Math Development. Pictured is Jennifer Willet of Capital One presenting to Laurie Beard, Elementary Principal and Denise Block, JH/HS Principal.
December 10, 2009
This year's Christmas parade was a great success. The students enjoyed their ride on the float, and we loved seeing their smiling faces.
December 9, 2009
CCS Lions Basketball
Daniel Battise had a monster game with 17 points and we lost count after 20 rebounds as the Community Christian Lions (8-2) triumphed 67-57 over Family Christian (5-2). Alex Parrish led the Lions and Darren Cannon added 14.
December 9, 2009
Community Christian School flies the hoops with first place at the Houston Tournament.
Photo one shows Left to Right: Alex Parrish, Ethan Berwick, CJ Wagner,and Daniel Battise.
Alex, Ethan and CJ got "All Tournament Player Awards" and Daniel got "MVP of the Tournament."
Photo two shows the team with their coach Rick Hyman and team manager Corye James.
December 8, 2009
Holiday Extravaganza!
December 2, 2009
Christmas for Children of the World
Community Christian School students collected materials for 178 shoeboxes which will bless children around the world through Operation Christmas Child. Most of the needy children live in poverty-stricken and war-torn areas where even the necessities of life are denied them. The shoeboxes will treat them to a variety of small toys, hard candy, articles of clothing, and toiletries. Operation Christmas Child, an outreach of Samaritan’s Purse, has reached over 8 million children with the joy of Christmas.
December 2, 2009
Meet Jonathan Breaux, an 8th grader at Community Christian School, who has such a heart for children's missions that he initiated a campaign to earn money for Bibles, specifically Bibles printed in Russian. In the last three months, he and fellow students have raised $326 by saving pennies in a jar. You can read more about this undertaking at bibles4orphans.blogspot.com, and you can email Jonathan at bibles4orphans@gmail.com.
November 12, 2009
Here is the week in Fall Funnies. Wait until you see the originality of our students. Go Lions!!
SLi recently celebrated an interesting speaker, Tom Burger, the External Affairs Manager for the Golden Pass project. He’s a graduate of Texas A&M, a mechanical engineer, and his career has been spent with ExxonMobil. Golden Pass is a project in partnership with ExxonMobil. Not only did our students enjoy Mr. Burger, but he said good things about us--"There's something special about Community Christian School. I sensed it when I walked in, and the kids just confirmed it to me. I'm impressed." Our thanks to Mr. Langham for arranging this speaker.
November 10, 2009
Ethan Berwick of Community Christian School sails to score over Starks High School. The Lions win!! 65-51.
November 5, 2009
CCS JH Girls Volleyball, played an outstanding season with a team mostly comprised of new students. Great Job!
We look forward to next season with these outstanding athletes.
October 30, 2009
CCS Promotes Red Ribbon Week
"Be a Hero--Be Drug-Free." That's the motto this week at Community Christian School as students are encouraged to be drug-free. The bright red clothing of the students on campus indicated their enthusiasm for the project. Camoflage Day was the highlight of the week as students dressed the part of drug-free "heroes" in honor of our men and women in the armed services.
October 29, 2009
CCS Volleyball Undefeated in State 1A Play
Community Christian School boasts their first undefeated Girls’ Varsity Volleyball Team 12-0.
The Lady Lions defeated Universal City First Baptist in five games taking the District title to follow their Area Championship.
This ranks them in the top eight volleyball teams in the state of Texas for TAPPS 1A play.
Their outstanding accomplishment advances them to regional play next Saturday, October 31, in Tomball, at 4:00 pm against Bellville Faith Academy.
This team, coached by Jami Foster, has no seniors graduating off the team and will be able to play together again next season.
October 23, 2009
Community Christian’s small Varsity cross country team had a strong showing at the TAPPS state cross country meet in Waco , Sat. Oct.17th. Although there are only three people on the team , they had two All-State finishes. Angela Royer battled through the steep hills for 8th place and Brandon Burns out-sprinted another runner in the last two-hundred meters to place third. Sarah Moseley placed 27th respectively.
Brandon and Angela have competed at the state level for all their high school years and have had All-State finishes every year. Angela and Sarah are both seniors and are already looking forward to track season, but will begin basketball soon. Brandon is a junior and plans on completing a half-marathon before track season. All three have a strong work ethic and practiced throughout the summer. They competed in five public school cross country meets before the state meet and between the three of them brought home ten medals.
October 21, 2009
CCS Raises the Flag--the Football Flag
Flag football is all the rage, and CCS is entering competition play. Anticipation is high as we watch for our varsity players to dominate the field through the energetic coaching of Ryan Richey.
October 21, 2009
CCS Students Learn the Importance of Community Service
To help students learn about the roles of helpers in our community, K5
students celebrated Community Service Helpers Day. They dressed as their
favorite hero to honor our community's everyday heroes. Pictured is
Michelle Dollar's and Brandy Hinson's K5 classes.
October 21, 2009
CCS Students Practice Ancient Architecture
Sharon Monk's 7th & 8th Grade World History classes had an opportunity to construct a “ziggurat.” A vast array of creative materials were used including Legos, marshmallows, and crafting clay.
Pictured are the students with their creations. It is believed that the Tower of Babel, from the Middle East, was a “ziggurat, ” a tower built of tiers or stages, each stage smaller than the one beneath, all atop a large mound of clay or debris.
October 15, 2009
Community Christian Lady Lions dominate TAPPS District Play
The Lady Lions volleyball players cleaned up Tuesday night with an undefeated district season finishing 12-0. Community Christian of Orange was declared district champions of TAPPS 1A district 7 volleyball. Tuesday, the girls traveled to Houston to play Life Christian School where they won in three short games. Because they finished first, they will bypass the first round of play-offs and will host Area at the 16th Street CCS gym on Saturday, October 24th.
October 12, 2009
Through the efforts of Sharon Monk, Junior High teacher, Community Christian School has new computers. We thank Brooklyn ISD and the Akhtar family business, The Palms, for donating the funds and technology. Pictured is Amron Akhtar, Amber Akhtar, Sharon Monk, Aron Akhtar, and Ashley Akhtar with some of the new technology.
October 12, 2009
Community Christian School 2009 Jr. High Soccer Team triumphs in back-to-back wins thanks to the insightful coaching of David Berwick and assistant Ethan Berwick.
(Left to Right) Front Row: Marcus Delarosa, Jr., Blake Dupre, Josh Howard, Rylan Odom, Christion Sweeten;
2nd Row: India Alexander, Chase Hogan, Dakota Alexander;
Back Row: Tristan Anding, James Pulliam, Patrick Riley, Matthew Rainey, Joseph LeBlanc, Jacob Alexander
September 28, 2009
FBI Visits CCS
FBI Agent Danny Hodges visited Community Christian School for our Marketplace Issue Day. Our Student Leadership institute (SLi) program includes inviting members of the community to speak to our young people about issues in the workplace and what preparations are necessary to attain a career in that field.
Agent Hodges is a member of the Joint Terrorist Task Force and attached to the Orange Police Department. He talked to us about what the task force does and how it affects and protects us. Mrs. Judy Klein, SLi director, said, “One of the most interesting things to me was a recent situation when the people of Orange were getting calls day and night, emails, etc. saying that our PIN number did not work and we needed to send or give our bank information so we would be able to get our money. Much of the proceeds from this scam go to support terrorist activity. Also, most of the time, these scams are perpetrated from Asia or Africa, not here in America.“
Following the talk and questions from our 5th-12th graders, Agent Hodges stayed for lunch where he visited with faculty and students. The students thoroughly enjoyed hearing what he had to say.
September 25, 2009
Thank you, Grandparents!!
We enjoyed having you visit the classrooms and eat lunch with us.
Mrs. Berwick did a great job of capturing the day. See if you can find your grandparent in the pictures...
September 25, 2009
Mrs. Whitten's 4th grade class received a popcorn party and "I am a
Proud Parent" bumper stickers for being the loudest on the class cheer
with their handmade noisemakers and for showing the most spirit at CCS's
first pep rally of the year. Morgan LeBlanc received the reward for her
class. Sarah Moseley, Student Council president was excited to see such
enthusiasm.
September 24, 2009
Orange County Record had three articles on CCS today…possibly link on school website?
Community Christian School Conquers the Court
At the Living Stones Invitational volleyball meet, CCS girls Varsity volleyball team played 18 games and won all but two to come home with a trophy. Mallori Parrish so dominated the court that she walked away with Most Valuable Player, an achievement voted on by all the coaches at the meet. Coach Jami Foster is doing an outstanding job with her tremendous team!!
September 18, 2009
City of Orange Involves the Community in Awareness of Upcoming Census - Click here to read the article
Pictured standing: Ryan Whitten 11th grade government student, Ethan Berwick 11th grade Student Council Representative, Billy Pruett, U.S. Dept. of Commerce for 2010 Census, Ricky Jorgensen, City Manager, Vidor, Texas (Committee Chair for Orange County), Jay Trahan, Director of Economic Development, Orange, Texas (Sub-committee Chair for City of Orange) Seated: Angela Royer Vice president Student Council, Sarah Moseley President Student Council
City of Orange Involves the Community in Awareness of Upcoming Census - Click here to read the article
September 18, 2009
Lions Roar at First Pep Rally
Our first rally was a huge success as Cheerleaders introduced us to this fall’s athletes and cheered the crowd of spectators to fever-pitch. The students enjoyed their grade competitions, and we’re excited about this year’s athletic events. GO LIONS!!!
September 18, 2009
Students are benefitting from the new software program for Spanish, Rosetta Stone. Utilizing one of our three computer labsites, students hear and respond to their lessons at each student's individual pace. Mrs. Street tracks their progress and keeps them on track to complete the course in a year. She noted how engaged the students remain throughout class each day as they enjoy working with this new technology.
September 18, 2009
Students have stormed the doors to get into this year's Book Fair. Mrs. Street did an exceptional job setting up eye-catching displays which lead the children to love books. Grandparents and parents have responded by supporting the book fair in a big way. This fundraiser is a huge success thanks to them.
September 18, 2009
Ms. Breaux's 8th grade Family/Life Skills class is making pillows for MD Anderson Cancer patients. Sewing is a necessary skill that gets overlooked in our fast-paced world. Even our young men need to know how to sew on a button. The students are especially interested in affecting the lives of cancer patients. What a worthy, fun project!
September 18, 2009
Opening Day for SLi brought a whole new meaning to the words fun and cooperation. After a never-ending supply of pizza, students separated into teams to practice their teamwork skills. Mrs. Klein chose popular game teasers that brought out the great CCS competitive spirit. Be sure to take a look at the pics of our two winning teams.
