The Highlight Reel

    Mr. Paul Jago was FBS's first Athletic Director. Though the school's athletic program did not start in 1983, by the time Merrit Price became an elementary teacher at the school in 1993, there was already a men's soccer and lady's volleyball program. 

    One of the games was playoff against Salisbury Christian School in the playoffs were the Falcons won a home game in a 2-1 shoot out. Later, in 2006, the soccer team again edged Salisbury Christian securing a trip to the PACC championship game with an overtime goal scored in the final seconds of stoppage time.
    Mr. Price took over AD in 1998 and remains the AD to this day. He was basketball ball coach for the girls' and boys' team from 2000-2009, and recalls that one of the greatest games was a win against the Holly Grove Christian Eagles in 2005 when"the game went into triple overtime and we won." He also coached the girls volleyball team for one year with Julie White (now Condos) in 2002-03. They went undefeated until late in the playoffs. In the greatest game the Lady Falcons played that year, the team came back from a 0-2 deficit to beat the Granite Baptist School Braves. 

Faith Baptist Falcons Soccer 

   1st place in the MACC Finals

    The FBS Falcons have been apart of three leagues different athletic conferences since 1993, including theMACS (Maryland Associate Christian School), PACC (Peninsula Athletics Christians Conference), and currently the MACC (Mid-Atlantic Christian Schools). This year the Falcons achieved a milestone by winning a league championship, taking first place for the first time in FBS sport's history.

Written by Jimmy DeWeerdt, Edited by Mr. Zockoll

A Short History of FBS

    Robert C. Reinert is the senior pastor at Faith Baptist Church. His ties to Faith Baptist School are from its conception in 1983. I have chosen to interview him in light of this to gain a more insightful view of how our school began.

    The schools existence came from an abundance of kids in the church needing a Biblically sound education. Something the public schools in the area just could not offer. During Faith Baptist School’s founding year there were seventeen students enrolled. Kindergarten through 6th grade were offered. The colors and mascot were the brain child of  Mr. Jago, the schools administrator.  The schools teaching staff was comprised of three teachers including my interviewee, Pastor Reinert. He taught Math and Bible and presently teaches advanced mathematics to FBS's Juniors and Seniors. Every advancing year since its beginning, Faith would add a new grade to its résumé until it reached its senior class. The school doubled its size after the first year; this was “ a big encouragement” according to Pastor Reinert. The school would later, in my mind, declare its crowning jewel “the falcon” as its mascot, the same symbol cherished by its current student body.

Written by Luke Zockoll, edited by Mark Zockoll.

On Topics

After “challenging”, a less heavy-handed word for “assigning,” my eleventh and twelfth grade English class to develop, edit and post a single blog in the upcoming week, I realized that this command would leave our recently generated class blog with nothing but a simple introductory post featuring an excited Eskimo lady as its sole covering, and being wintertime here on the shore such provision simply would not be enough. However, as those same senior high students pointed out amid their exultant shrieks of ecstasy resulting from their encounter with a formidable academic challenge, selecting a topic to write on is easier said than done.

You see the exuberant author runs the risk of exhausting his resources on too small a topic. Analogous situations have been observed among the twitterpated Junior high male who, though leaving home with fiscal certainty, having emptied his pockets on supper at five, leaves him and his lady without entertainment for the remainder of the suddenly awkward evening. Of course the conundrum exists on the opposite extreme as well. For instance, certain topics such as “The History of Religion” or “The Migration Patterns of the Bobolink”are entirely capable of swallowing the writer in a single gulp leaving behind not even a jot or tittle of individualistic style.

What is needed is a topic wholly capable of holding the attention of the author, for if the topic can hold his attention, the writer stands a very good chance of sculpting his assertions on that topic in such a way which might hold his audience’s attention on that same topic. E.g., say some Padawan would take for his material the whaling business as it stood in the nineteenth century. With such an expanse of primary source material, it would be quite possible for the writer to turn Mellville-ian and attempt to chronicle not only the history, modern adaptations, folklore and logistical formatting of a proper pursuit of a certain whale. It would be a thousand times more preferable however and much more interesting for that same author to simply chronicle the exact descriptions and reflections, from those crews who documented such, concerning the taste of whale-steak after which he would offer his own anecdotal take on the taste of the giant fish’s muscular anatomy stemming from personal experience received from a floundered cruise off the western most tip of Alaska.

          The author that finds such a topic is the author capable of saying what he needs to say without the fear of others not caring a hoot what it is he has to say. 

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On this blog, students will learn to write for a public audience, to extend themselves and their ideas for public criticism, and how to answer these criticisms, both positively and negatively with grace and dignity.

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