Mission Week ~ Dean Bowen

As a school, we endeavor to cultivate a Christ-centered environment inside the building. Our hope is that this will inspire students to independently cultivate a Christ-centered environment within their own hearts.  Whenever possible, we desire to take that Christ-centered environment outside the building as well. This is our goal during mission week.

For the past three years, Bill and Nicole Norris have lead a team of high school students and adults to serve families at Give Kids the World Village. While they are faithfully and tirelessly loving children and families in Florida, the rest of the high school students stay back and serve the community at home.


The GKTW mission team flies out tomorrow morning and the team staying home begins their mission week tomorrow as well. Nicole will share more with the Waterbrook family about the GKTW team when they return home. I would like to share a little bit about the team that stays behind.
    
​Last year we set out to assist local churches. There are several churches in the area who offer us the use of their facility for various events at no charge. We sent out teams of students to wipe down pews, wash windows, clean up the outside property, and perform any work needed to be done. At times it was messy work, but we thoroughly enjoyed it.

This year our focus is not to help with the church buildings, but rather help the church body. Our partner churches have given us lists of individuals who would welcome assistance in cleaning up their yards or performing other work around their homes. So, we are going to take care of those needs. We will be doing other things throughout the community as well, but our focus is on helping individual members of the Body of Christ. 

​Please pray for both our teams this week as we endeavor to carry a Christ-centered environment outside our school building through the humble posture of our hearts, smiles, words and actions…wherever we find a place to lend a helping hand.

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