NEW HOT LUNCH LINEUP!

For the upcoming school year, we will have a new lunch lineup! 

Your lunch lineup is as follows:

• Tuesday - Panda Express
• Wednesday - Chick-fil-A
• Thursday - Rubio's

If you are new to the AZ Lutheran family, please visit this page to learn how to order. Or call My Hot Lunch at 888-894-8295

WE ARE STILL LOOKING

AZ Lutheran has the following positions to be filled for the 2026-2027 school year. Please contact Kurt Rosenbaum via email at Rosenbaum@ALAcoyotes.org if interested or if seeking more information.

• Bus driver - morning and afternoon driver needed for East Valley route (Emmanuel and Pilgrim to/from AZ Lutheran). One person for all or a combination can work. School days only. Hours 6a-8a and/or 3:15p-5:15p
• Study Hall supervisor - daily to oversee study halls. Management of school work and students' study needs. Perhaps other assistant duties can be performed concurrently. School days only. Hours 8a-3p.

IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED

URGENT! Contact Your State Legislators Immediately and Tell Them You Support a Special Session to Save ESAs!

We have an opportunity to protect Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESAs), which have empowered the parents of over 102,000 children in Arizona. The Arizona Christian Education Coalition, along with other school choice advocates, have been working with lawmakers on an agreement that would protect Arizona families by ensuring the anti-ESA ballot measure that has been circulating throughout the state since March (paid for by money from out of state) will not be placed on the ballot!

We are faced with a well-funded campaign by out-of-state education unions who have already poured over $4 million into Arizona to chisel away your ability to exercise that right and to specifically target private Christian schools such as ours.

Your lawmakers need to hear from you. Please email them as soon as possible and tell them that you support a special session to save ESAs. It is that simple.

You can find your legislators’ information at this link (https://www.azleg.gov/findmylegislator/).

Legislative leadership has stood shoulder to shoulder with us as we have fought to make Arizona the nation’s leader for school choice and parent empowerment. They deserve credit for this courageous effort. After you have emailed your lawmakers, please also send an email to the President of the Senate, Warren Petersen (wpetersen@azleg.gov), and the Speaker of the House, Steve Montenegro (smontenegro@azleg.gov), to thank them for taking this bold action to save ESAs.

Finally, please forward this message to your friends who care about protecting ESAs.

FAVORITE WAY TO VOLUNTEER?

We are sharing some of the favorite ways in which parents volunteer at AZ Lutheran. What's your favorite way to help? Perhaps serving a team or drama meal, being a team parent, helping at a game, event, or with the parking team, chaperoning a dance, coaching, volunteering during Teacher Appreciation Week, driving, selling tickets, or volunteering at graduation. 

Share your favorite! Take the five-question survey.

OPEN POSITIONS AT AZ LUTHERAN

AZ Lutheran has the following positions to be filled for the 2026-2027 school year. Please contact Kurt Rosenbaum via email at Rosenbaum@ALAcoyotes.org if interested or if seeking more information.

• Bus driver - morning and afternoon driver needed for East Valley route (Emmanuel and Pilgrim to/from AZ Lutheran). One person for all or a combination can work. School days only. Hours 6a-8a and/or 3:15p-5:15p
• Study Hall supervisor - daily to oversee study halls. Management of school work and students' study needs. Perhaps other assistant duties can be performed concurrently. School days only. Hours 8a-3p.

SHARE THIS INFORMATION WITH YOUR FRIENDS, FAMILY AND NEIGHBORS

Right now, opponents of school choice are actively collecting signatures to place anti-ESA measures on the 2026 ballot. If they succeed, these measures would kick tens of thousands of students off the Empowerment Scholarship Account program, disrupt special needs families, and open the door to unlimited government regulation of private schools.

This is not a distant threat. Signature gatherers are in grocery store parking lots, at community events, and on neighborhood sidewalks across Arizona right now. Many of the people they approach don't know what they're signing - and that's exactly what the opposition is counting on.

We need your help to change that.

The opposition is funded by out-of-state special interests spending millions to eliminate school choice in Arizona. They're building their campaign on a fraud narrative that has been thoroughly debunked - actual fraud in the ESA program is 0.3%, far below Medicaid, food stamps, or unemployment insurance.

But debunked or not, the narrative works if families never hear the truth. That's why this moment matters so much. We cannot let up in June. The signature collection window is open, and every conversation a school family has with a neighbor, a fellow church member, or a friend is an opportunity to protect the program that serves more than 102,000 Arizona children.

It's going to take all of us! Please download the flyer and share it with your friends, neighbors, and family.

SERVE THIS SUMMER!

Upper-classmen recommend completing as many service hours as possible during in the summer. One rising senior said, "I'm busy during the school year, so I try to complete all my service hours in the summer." Learn more and find a Service Form.

Looking for service hours opportunities this summer? Check out the available opportunities at Emmanuel in Tempe on June 6 and 8-9.