Service Projects Underway

Last month I asked our teachers to plan a couple service projects for our students to participate in and they’ve come up with some great ideas.

Here’s a list of what each grade is planning:

K3: Collect food for the Salvation Army and then take the students on a field trip so that they can deliver it personally

K4: Encourage the students to do chores at home to earn money for purchasing food for Hope Harbor from Skagway

K5: Draw pictures for a nursing home and serve as “trash patrol” for the school

1-2: Collect newspapers towards the purchase of a tree that the students will plant in our yard

3-4: Read to the K5 students

5-6: Do as many helpful things around the school as possible without being noticed

As I mentioned in a previous Principal Note, I believe it’s important to give our students opportunities to put into practice what they have been learning about serving others. Real learning involves much more than just “head knowledge.”

Jesus reminded us of this fact in Mathew 23:3 when he told his disciples, “But do not do what they [the Pharisees] do, for they do not practice what they preach.”
As teachers and parents we do a lot of “preaching” to our children and we mustn’t be like the Pharisees who said all of the right things but didn’t put them into practice.
Certainly our personal example is one of the greatest factors affecting whether or not our children will put into practice what we teach them.

All of the classrooms have begun their projects and are busy working on them. Please pray for them. Pray that God will use these opportunities we give them to touch their hearts with genuine compassion for others.