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New Direction
- What
is Project Serve? |
Scripture
declares that there are different kinds of gifts, but the
same Spirit. There are different kinds of service,
but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but
the same God works all of them in all men. 1
Corinthians 12:4-6. 1 Peter 4:10 goes on to say each
should use whatever gift he has received to serve others,
faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms.
It is the goal of Project Serve to give our student body,
faculty and staff the opportunity to use their gifts of
service by sharing these gifts,
with the love
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of
Christ, in the community. Throughout the school year, the
Summit family reaches out to those in need in a variety of
community service projects coordinated through Summit
Christian School, thus exposing our students and families to
many different ways to use their gifts for the glory of God.
As the ministry of Summit Christian School continues to
grow, the school will support additional worthy Christian
organizations.
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See
Project Serve Student
Testimonies |
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Service
Projects for:
Entire Campus
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Elementary |
Preschool |
Secondary School |
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Entire
Campus Projects |
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NEW!!!
PTF's Project Serve Outreach Food Drive
This PTF-Organized
Outreach will run from Monday, April 21-Monday, May 12th,
2008.
What
is the OCA? The Oasis
Compassion Agency assists families and individuals on an
emergency and short-term basis us to six months, and up to
one year in extreme cases. They provide food, clothing,
biblical counseling, and referrals to partnering agencies
for additional assistance with housing and finances.
OCA
believes in empowering people so that they can be
self-sufficient. The career
center offers classes and training. The thrift shop provides
suitable clothing (when needed) for clients to go on
interviews. OCA is a non-profit, run primarily by volunteers
and provides all services free of charge to its clients.
Oasis has three separate
areas; the food pantry, thrift shop and career center.
Presently 700 families are
being helped by at least one of these areas.
OCA depends entirely on donations of food, financial
contributions, and thrift shop sales.
Please send in your boxed and canned goods.
There will be collection containers in classrooms or
designated areas.
Let's
make this outreach a successful one and make a difference
for families in need in our community.
After all, isn't that what Christ has called us to do?
Thank you in advance from the
Summit Christian School PTF.
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The SCS
Student Council,
in cooperation with C.R.O.S. ministries and WPTV, gathered 2,429 non-perishable food items for the food drive from the elementary, middle and high school classes. Once all
of the food was collected, it was loaded
into a truck and delivered to needy families in our area. Thank
you for supporting this ministry! |
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Bibles for Radio Station WRMB
Gently used
Bibles will be collected from all students in cooperation with
radio station WRMB. They will then be distributed to care
centers, prisons and overseas missions.
Plans are
to complete this project in May of 2008. |
 The
6th Annual Live Nativity Christmas Stroll,
joyfully presented by the PTF of
Summit Christian School, featured volunteer student, parent,
staff and faculty members, offered a unique portrayal of
the greatest story ever told. Saturday and Sunday,
December 1st and 2nd from 6-9pm. Everyone was invited to bring
their neighbors, family and friends as the love of
Christ was shared from His humble birth to His glorious resurrection
through acting and music. There was snow for the
kids to play in and wonderful treats and games with prizes available in the Christmas
Courtyard. |
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Elementary
Projects |
Preschool
Projects |
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Mrs. Garcia’s and Mrs.
Whiteheart’s first grade classes
went to the Darcy Hall nursing home on Dec. 4th
to help spread some Christmas cheer. They sang
Christmas carols, some of the students read, and they
brought the residents of Darcy Hall some special
treats. They students were very excited about reaching out to others
through “Project Serve.” |
Second & Third grades
collected clothing for under-resourced people living in
Pahokee. They brought in adult and children’s gently used
clothing. The clothing was
collected in the individual classrooms and then Mrs. Kendall
delivered the items. |
LOVING GOD - LOVING PEOPLE
Elementary
and preschool students decorated 1,000 placemats
for Christ Fellowship and the firefighter’s Big Heart Brigade’s
distribution of Thanksgiving meals to over 20,000 people. While
enjoying their Thanksgiving meal, many families will also enjoy
the artwork and Christ’s message of love sent from our Summit
Christian School youngsters.
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Students completed
Christmas cards for wounded servicemen at the Walter Reed Army
Medical Center. They were sent Dec. 10, 2007. Merry Christmas! |
 SCS
Elementary Students Reach Out to Children at Orphanage
- The elementary students will be sending notes and pictures to
the children at the Casa Bernabe Orphanage in Vera Cruz,
Nicaragua, which they wrote during their Spanish class with
Mrs. Sandy Nilius. She helped the students to write
encouraging messages to the orphans in Spanish. Mrs. Barbara
Mackey helped students design the cards for the messages which
will be delivered Dec. 20th along with 'gently used' t-shirts, shorts, jeans and
sneakers for the orphanage. Our students are very excited to
be blessing these children who have so little. |
Missionary Flights, International
4th
and 5th grade students will be helping to load the
plane to prepare it to deliver goods to the poorest of Haiti
through the West Indies. The impact of our students’ service
will be felt worldwide. |
200 books will be donated to kids in need! Scholastic
Book Clubs runs a program called
Classroomscare. In this program, when a class reads 100
books by December 21, 2007, Scholastic Book Clubs will donate
400 books to kids in need. The K5 and 1st grade classes set a goal, 100
books to read by the end of November. We did it! This is a great way to
share the love of reading and make a difference! |
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Secondary
School |
C.R.O.S. Ministries and the
Salvation Army Partner with SCS Secondary Students
to Impact Our CommunityThe
week of December 3-7, Summit Secondary School students were
quite busy serving our community! On Monday, the Seniors
went with Mr. Vasquez and Mr. Whiteheart to the C.R.O.S.
Ministries and Salvation Army 'headquarters' to assist the
organizations in various ways. The class was broken into two
different groups; one went to co unt
the red kettle donations and the Thrift Store to sort clothing
and clean while the other group went to the CROS food pantry to
work on computers, restock shelved, compile food bags, and
interact with clientele that benefit from the food pantry.
Tuesday the 6th & 7th graders went with Mr. Gill to the
Salvation Army to s ort
& wrap presents, sort clothing, box canned food and clean up
warehouse areas. Wednesday found Mr. Gill and the
8th graders out on Lake Worth Beach to perform some much needed
environmental clean-up. Students collected a minimum of 30 bags
of trash from the south side of the pier. Many beachgoers were
well impressed with how friendly and well mannered the students
were while performing a seemingly thankless task. Way to go, 8th
grade! You left a positive impression out in our community!
While Mr. Gill and his gang were busy on the beach, Mr. Vasquez
took the Freshmen, broken into two groups, back out to the
C.R.O.S. Ministries pantry and warehouse to organize the food
products and stock shelves. On Thursday, the Sophomores
helped in the same way as the Freshmen, continuing to work in
the warehouse and pantry sorting, boxing and re-stocking
non-perishable food items.
Mr. Whiteheart and the Juniors went out to Belle
Glade and gleaned corn on Friday. It was a great day and the students
worked so very hard, as they knew that what they were gleaning would
be used by the food agencies to feed the hungry. They gleaned
over 5,000 pounds of corn!!!! Isn't that awesome??? What a
wonderful and rewarding week we had.
Please CLICK HERE to read
some of the student testimonies from this week's service
projects.
Thanks to everyone
who is supporting our efforts of ministry through Project Serve!
God bless you! |
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Snyder’s film students’ skills will be put to work through the
creation of a documentary film on the making of a beautiful
Mosaic for the walls of the Armory Center. For the “Wall
Together” project, Summit’s film students will work as part of a
team of Palm Beach County film students, to record and edit the
documentary of the mosaic’s progress. We’re proud to be a part
of this historical wall of art! |
Mrs.
Noble’s 7th grade science classes and Mr.
Brustkern’s AP Biology classes will exercise good stewardship by
taking an active part in restoring the Florida Everglades. They
will volunteer for the Art Marshall Foundation as
“Ambassadors to the Everglades”. Our Summit Ambassadors will
take a trip to Torry Island, in Lake Okeechobee and help to
restore an historic pond apple forest. They will also develop
an appreciation for South Florida and the Greater Everglades
Ecosystem through pre-visit and post-visit training. What an
adventurous way to serve our community! |
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Miss Snyder’s
Film Students will be sharing their filming skills with the
community as they shoot video of the relocation of precious
historical archives from the Island of Palm Beach to their new
home in the Courthouse. |
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Project Serve Student
Testimonies |
| We bagged rice to give to the
people that were there. I also helped people take the food out
to their cars. We did over one hundred bags of rice and we fed a
LOT of people! I had a good time while we were there. I hope we
can go again. ~ Drew Nilius |
I had a lot of
fun working for Project Serve. We went to a storage place in
Boynton Beach and we sorted cans. At McDonalds, the store manager gave
us free ice cream for helping the community! On the ride home we
were all tired, but it was worth it. We made a good team and I
had a lot of fun, and I think we should do it again soon. ~
Renatta Zarro |
My day doing community service
was pretty chill. We put a whole bunch of food and toiletries
into boxes. It was kinda cool helping! It would be nice to keep
it going on for years to come.
~ Jennifer Woods |
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Thanks to
everyone who is supporting our efforts of ministry through
Project Serve! God bless you! |
(Working at the food pantry,)
when I saw some of those people that were sick and they had
their kids with them, it made me want to give them all the food
they needed. I feel that I helped the people there because we
created food bags for the people. I believe what I did helped
out all of the poor and homeless people.
~ Taylor Mirrione |
It felt really
good to help the people who are less fortunate than others. My
group had a lot of fun sorting the food into boxes and working
together. I think we should do these projects more often.
~ Ashley Burns |
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