Missions
Our students at SCS are involved in many missions opportunities from early elementary grades through the high school.
Our 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.
Second grade partners with the SCS senior class to help support their mission trip to the Dominican Republic. Each second grade student has a senior buddy. The class meets with their buddies throughout the year to get to know them better. The second graders do projects to encourage their senior buddies and pray for them. They sponsor a Feed a Village lunch to help provide much needed food to the villages in the Dominican that our seniors will visit.
Third grade 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.
Fourth grade students 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 goes to the office for Hospice and Palliative Care of Iredell County to plant flowers in an outside break area for employees. The flowers are for employees who give so much of themselves in a difficult job. Our students help to brighten their day with a splash of color beginning in the fall and lasting until spring.
Our high school students participate in Operation Christmas Child annually by going to the shipping centers in Charlotte and helping prepare boxes to be delivered to destinations around the world.
