Reformation Day

We are excited to announce our 3rd annual Reformation Day event on Monday, October 31. The ENTIRE student body (K-12) will be together at the South Campus (Lake Oswego) for a fun day filled with worship, games, costumes, and the all-school fellowship we are all missing while we occupy two campuses.

Reformation Day is an important festival that is celebrated by many Protestant denominations and schools. It commemorates Martin Luther’s posting of his 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany on October 31, 1517. Celebrating Reformation Day at SSA allows us to recognize this significant event in history and offers the opportunity for students to celebrate with one another across grade levels. Through costumes, competitions, and activities, we will be joining together in Christian fellowship and celebration of this momentous day in church history.

Since Reformation Day is a celebration of an historical event, we are encouraging students to dress up in a variety of costumes in accordance with history. It is a celebration of the Reformation and not Halloween, so the variety of costumes should be limited to historical or literary figures and themes of the Medieval and Reformation periods. We encourage students to be creative, but they should refrain from dressing up as anything ghoulish (e.g. zombies, devils, witches). Think: princesses, knights, Robin Hood, maidens, popes, cardinals, bishops, noblewomen, noblemen, servants, serfs, tailors, street beggars, monks, etc. Students who do not wish to wear a costume should wear their usual school uniform (Archers shirts are allowed).