Catalyst Christian School

Emma Zimmeman

8th Grade

Emma Zimmerman is a hardworking student at Catalyst Christian School. She is in eighth grade and is on the middle school’s student council. She is a leader among her friends and is very wise and compassionate to others. At school, she loves hanging out with her friends and making connections with her teachers. Her favorite subject in school is science because she enjoys learning about our world and doing labs.

Emma plays volleyball for the Catalyst Firehawks as an extracurricular activity. In her free time, she enjoys spending time outside and getting better at volleyball. Her hobbies include sports and spending time with family and friends.

Emma’s biggest accomplishments so far have been earning good grades and improving her volleyball skills.

She attends Grace Point Church of the Nazarene, where she serves in the children’s ministry. Emma admires her pastors because they serve her church well. She also admires her parents because of how loving they have been. Another person she admires is her mom’s friend Meghann Wenger because she is very patient and kind to everyone.

She isn’t sure if she wants to go to college yet, but her dream is to start her own photography business.

If she could change anything about the world, she would have everyone have the right friends put into their lives and have everyone be included and loved.

Written by: Makenzie Martin

Jeremiah Shenk

7th Grade

The Catalyst Christian School student of the month for October is Jeremiah Shenk. He is in 7th grade. He is kind, patient, and includes everybody.

Something Jeremiah likes best about school is hanging out with friends and talking to the teachers about sports games and the weekend. One of his favorite subjects at Catalyst is world history. He enjoys world history because he gets to learn about how all the different countries began and different events that happened.

One extra-curricular activity Jeremiah participates in is basketball. He enjoys basketball because it is a great way to get active and meet new people.

Some things Jeremiah enjoys doing in his spare time include hanging out with friends, playing video games, and watching professional and college sports. He also enjoys playing basketball. Jeremiah feels that his greatest accomplishment so far was scoring 60 points in basketball in just 12 games.

Jeremiah attends Mission Church and is actively involved in his youth group and helps out with the sound and lighting during the service.

Someone Jeremiah admires is his cousin, Nate Lewis. Jeremiah looks up to him because he is good at basketball. After high school, Jeremiah plans on going to college to be an athletic trainer.

Something Jeremiah would like to see change in the world would be that everybody would read the Bible and learn to follow Christ.

Written by: Devon Nolt