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Serve-A-Thon 2010
Monday, May 24, 2010
March marked the third annual Serve-A-Thon fundraiser for Covenant Classical School and proved a powerful opportunity for our students to put their faith in action while raising money for the school.
Students faithfully sought sponsorships for their service through sending mailers to family and friends and by going door to door in their neighborhoods. Part of the
excitement of raising money through this unique fundraiser is the knowledge that 10% of it will go back into our community. The Coltrane Family LIFE Center, an adult daycare service, and the Boys and Girls Club of Cabarrus County were chosen as the recipients this year of our tithe and will receive donations from CCS once all funds from Serve-A-Thon are tallied.
The most thrilling part of Serve-A-Thon is witnessing how students wholeheartedly embrace serving others! Children in grades K-4 and K-5 eagerly made 800 sandwiches to be delivered by our 6th graders who served drinks and cleaned tables at the Urban Ministry soup kitchen of Charlotte. Sixth grader Kady Kuhn commented that the experience “changed my perspective of homeless people—they were normal people—we aren’t that different.”
First graders spent the school year collecting coins for “Pennies for Peace”, a foundation that builds schools in Afghanistan. Our 2nd grade students performed and visited at the Coltrane LIFE Center, a place which has become very special to all CCS grammar school students as each grade has had two opportunities to visit the elderly there this year. Third graders received a primer on the American Red Cross and its mission and had the opportunity to prepare a mass mailing “thank you” for the agency’s regular volunteers. Meals on Wheels hosted our 4th graders who worked hard preparing meals for delivery and then packing meals to be frozen. The 5th grade classes assisted with set-up of Cabarrus County’s Senior Health and Wellness Fair and received kudos for their excellent work ethic and eye for design!
The 7th-12th graders cleared tables and served coffee at the Boys and Girls Club annual Pancake Day fundraiser. These upper school students were a huge help to the Club’s staff, who commented that they hoped to have our help again next year. An upper school student remarked that she especially “enjoyed serving special needs kids and the elderly…their faces glowed when we
brought them pancakes.”
Third grade teacher Mrs. Stephanie Prince stated that Serve-A-Thon “holds up an ideal of imitating Jesus’ service to others and puts in students’ hearts a desire to serve others. Students were shown the human side of service” and received a “real-life experience in community cooperation.”
