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Community/Mission Work
Statesville Christian School is committed to being part of the Iredell Community through participation in community events such as the Statesville and Mooresville Christmas parades, the Troutman Fourth of July Parade and the Statesville Balloon Festival. As a school community we continually look for ways to give back, this past year Statesville Christian School made several donations to the Barium Springs Home for Children located in Troutman along with the student lead projects listed below.
The Kindergarten class goes to the Elder Center of Statesville to sing, recite Bible Verses, and do skits, etc. They usually go at least three times a year to celebrate upcoming holidays with them. While there, they make a seasonal craft which is left as a gift for the Elder Center members, and the students even play games with them.
The First grade class outreach for this year has been visiting the Abernethy Laurels Retirement and Care Center in Newton. The residents that live there are from just retired folks living in apartments to those that require complete medical care. We visited last fall, and will be going there for our spring visit tomorrow. While at Abernethy, the students spend an hour or so talking, coloring, playing games, and simply sharing time with the residents, many of whom seldom have visitors. The most important part of our visit is when we present Jesus in a program of songs, poems, scripture reading, and prayer. The residents love this part of our visit most of all, and many staff members gather around as well when they hear our students lifting our praises to God. We can tell the folks at Abernethy are blessed by simply looking at their faces, but we are blessed many times over as well, by our experience there.
The Second grade class has partnered with our senior class for the last several years. Each 2nd grade student is paired with a senior who will be going on the senior mission trip. The students are encouraged to pray for their senior throughout the year and have opportunity to interact with their senior during school. We also sponsor medical supply drives and provide gospel literature to be taken on the trip by the seniors. This project not only allows the 2nd grade students the opportunity to think about and take part in international missions but it also provides an enjoyable cross campus connection that helps our students feel a sense of community at SCS.
The Third grade class coordinates two food drives for the Troutman Help Ministries Food Bank which is located at Fallstown Baptist Church. They collect food items from the elementary students at SCS, deliver the food to the ministry site, and then help the director stock the shelves with the food items. The students learn how the food is distributed to those in need.
The Fourth grade class will be assisting in the Von Trapp program, a program through the Iredell County Partnership for Young Children. They will visit two low-income preschools within our county and direct 10 individual art centers, through which all the children will rotate. The centers will include a readers theater of Charlotte’s Web, story time, piano playing, violin playing, singing time (where students will teach one of our chapel songs), game time (a group of fourth graders will play games with the students), and dramatic reading (Two of our speech meet contestants will perform their dramatic readings for the children). Students will also be making “Wordless Books” for each of the children and speaking to them as a whole group about the “Wordless Book” as a way to share the gospel with these children.
The fifth grade class partnered with the Hospice House of Iredell County by planting seasonal flowers in an employee break area that had recently been developed by an Eagle Scout next to the Gordon Hospice House. The ministry project was to bring light into the lives of families who have a sick loved one that is aided by the organization. The class wanted to give the employees and volunteers a quiet place to find strength from God in a difficult day.
The Middle School classes have partnered with Score International Orphanage.
The High School classes have several ministries they serve in the local community and beyond. These ministries include: Samaritan Purse (Operation Christmas Child), London Bridges, Pregnancy Resource Center, Senior Mission trip to the Dominican Republic, Winterim trip to China to meet with missionaries, Fellowship of Christian Athletes (Iredell Christian Ministries) and the Basketball Ministry program through In-Bound Ministries with a trip to Florida.
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