Wednesday, August 19, 2026

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Our home openers are right around the corner, and we urgently need a few parents to volunteer so our games can run smoothly!

Football Home Opener - Friday, August 21, 7pm
  • Ticket Gate (3 people) 5:45 pm- halftime.
  • Parking Crew (2 people) 6pm- first quarter.
Volleyball Home Opener - Wednesday, August 26
  • Line Judges (2 people per game): arrive 15 min before the match starts
  • Ticket Gate 4:45pm- end of Varsity set 1
Even taking just one shift this season makes a massive difference for our student-athletes. Thank you so much for stepping up to support our Coyotes!



MEDICATION AT SCHOOL

If your child takes prescription or OTC medication throughout the school year, please drop it off at the front office with a medication permission form for each medication. This can be done at any time throughout the school year.

Write your last name on all OTC medications.

Print one form for each medication.


BUS PASSES

If your child is riding the bus this year, even if it’s occasionally, you can purchase bus passes two different ways:

1. On the AZ Lutheran website

Under Parent Resources > Pay Online: Tuition, Housing, Bus Passes, Misc.

Please email Mrs. Solofra to let her know you’ve purchased a ticket so she can give it to your child at school.

2. Stop in the office or send your child to the office with payment to receive the bus pass.


REMINDER: NEW STUDENT PIZZA LUNCH

All new students will celebrate the start of the new school year with a pizza lunch on Friday, August 21. We will meet in the gym. Students only need to bring their own drink.


GIVE THANKS TO GOD!

From Dan Kuiper, Executive Director of the Arizona Christian Education Coalition: 

Yesterday the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that Proposition 212 - the anti-school choice measure funded by out-of-state special interests - failed to submit enough valid signatures to appear on the November ballot. According to the legal team leading the challenge, the measure fell approximately 12,000 signatures short.

With today's decision more than 100,000 Arizona children currently thriving on Empowerment Scholarship Accounts, and the thousands of students to come, are safe from this particular attack.

Arizonans saw through it.

Out-of-state special interests poured money into our state for one purpose: to wrestle educational freedom away from Arizona families. They hired paid circulators and had every advantage money can buy.

Yet Arizonans when asked, saw through it and declined to sign. In numbers so overwhelming that the opposition couldn't hit their threshold through legitimate means and resorted to cutting corners the Court threw out.

This is what a true grassroots effort looks like. The people of Arizona were asked to put this measure on the ballot, and they declined. Loudly.

This is answered prayer. Please take a moment today to thank God for His protection over Arizona families and for the organizations that have been working around the clock to defend educational freedom, specifically:
  • Goldwater Institute
  • Love Your School
  • Arizona Free Enterprise Club
  • Attorney Kory Langhofer
  • AZ Loves ESAs

There are more we couldn't name in this short note, and every one of them deserves our thanks.

To every school leader, family, pastor, and supporter who prayed, showed up, made calls, and spoke out: your involvement mattered.

But the work isn't finished. Our full attention now turns to the mid-term elections this November.


TACO TACO

Friday Night Football on 8.21.26

Coyote Hype Zone theme: Black & Gold Night

Tac-O Tac-O Food Truck will be at the game!




RAISE RIGHT

RaiseRight, formerly known as “Shop with Scrip,” is a gift card fundraising program. Using gift cards earns rebates, which benefit AZ Lutheran and are shared with you!

  • Learn about RaiseRight gift cards in this FAQ.
  • Over 500 retailers are available! View retailers.
  • Coordinator John Mueller orders plastic gift cards on the 15th and last day of each month.
  • Plastic gift cards will be delivered to the AZ Lutheran office.
  • Want gift cards sooner? Purchase e-gift cards, which are delivered to your inbox.

How to order online?
  1. Contact John Mueller at RaiseRight@ALAcoyotes.org to get our enrollment code.
  2. Set up your account, order, and start earning.
  3. Link your bank account or a debit card.
  4. Purchase gift cards.