This week our first team started off our service projects by helping an older woman with some yard work. They worked hard to clean up pine needles from her yard. We are so proud of our students and their willingness to serve and share God's love!
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Serving Our Community
We started a new year of serving our community this week! Every year, middle school students get 2 opportunities to participate in service projects in our city. Teams of 6-7 students and a teacher work for an hour in various areas. We have done yard work, house cleaning, served at nursing homes and elder care facilities, helped at food banks and homeless shelters, and many more activities. Our kids love to serve!
Monday, July 16, 2018
Car Wash!
At the end of June, Do Something 1:8 hosted a car wash at the school. The students who will be attending the Honduras mission trip next spring worked hard all morning long to raise money. At the end of the day, we washed 72 cars and made a little over $1300 towards our trip.
Right now we have 15 students and parents who have signed up to attend our next mission trip. We will travel to Honduras in March 2019 to help install water filters, latrines, concrete floors, and to participate in community outreaches. We are excited to go back to Honduras to share God's love, but it will require a lot of fundraising and prayer!
Our car wash was the first big fundraiser we did for this trip. God is good and our customers were generous! Thanks to all of you who brought your cars by to be washed!
Right now we have 15 students and parents who have signed up to attend our next mission trip. We will travel to Honduras in March 2019 to help install water filters, latrines, concrete floors, and to participate in community outreaches. We are excited to go back to Honduras to share God's love, but it will require a lot of fundraising and prayer!
Our car wash was the first big fundraiser we did for this trip. God is good and our customers were generous! Thanks to all of you who brought your cars by to be washed!
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Serving our Senior Citizens
During the spring semester, our middle school students took turns visiting Mayberry Senior Services center and helping with various activities there. This center cares for adults who have memory issues and have trouble taking care of themselves during the day. Our students helped with arts and crafts projects and several games. It was a fun time to connect with the older generation and get to know them a little!
Monday, March 12, 2018
Portales Mission Trip 2018
At the end of February, our 6th - 8th grade students had the opportunity to serve in Portales at the New Mexico Baptist Children's Home. We took a group of 17 students and parents to serve for two days. Everyone worked hard and had a lot of fun!
On Friday when we arrived, we helped with some landscaping tasks. The lawn in front of their main building had grown over into the rocks, and there were lots of weeds around. We pulled the weeds and helped tame the overgrown grass. Some of the students also went on a tumbleweed roundup to keep them from blowing all over campus in the spring wind. We also primed two new gates for painting.
Friday evening was the part we were all waiting for - dinner and games with the kids! The children living on campus are there because their parents are unable to take care of them. They live at the Children's Home while their parents try to work things out to be able to take them back. Sometimes they are able to reunite with their parents, and sometimes they are adopted by other families. We were excited to meet the kids and the house parents. We played with them outside for awhile and then we had dinner together.
After dinner, we had a game night. Our students planned and prepared Minute To Win It games to play, and they had lots of fun playing with the kids! They did a puzzle race, cup stacking, a chopstick race, a cookie race, and they made salvation story bracelets with them. It was a great night with lots of laughter and fun!
We spent the night Friday and got up to do some more work on Saturday morning. Unfortunately, the wind was blowing very hard and it was extremely cold. Instead of finishing up our landscaping work, the Children's Home put us to work helping with inventory in their commissary. They get tons of food and supplies donated, and each year they must count every item that they have. We were able to do most of that counting for them and save them lots of work!
We are really proud of the students who served in Portales. They showed the love of Christ as they made new friendships and as they worked hard to help out a very worthy cause!
On Friday when we arrived, we helped with some landscaping tasks. The lawn in front of their main building had grown over into the rocks, and there were lots of weeds around. We pulled the weeds and helped tame the overgrown grass. Some of the students also went on a tumbleweed roundup to keep them from blowing all over campus in the spring wind. We also primed two new gates for painting.
Friday evening was the part we were all waiting for - dinner and games with the kids! The children living on campus are there because their parents are unable to take care of them. They live at the Children's Home while their parents try to work things out to be able to take them back. Sometimes they are able to reunite with their parents, and sometimes they are adopted by other families. We were excited to meet the kids and the house parents. We played with them outside for awhile and then we had dinner together.
After dinner, we had a game night. Our students planned and prepared Minute To Win It games to play, and they had lots of fun playing with the kids! They did a puzzle race, cup stacking, a chopstick race, a cookie race, and they made salvation story bracelets with them. It was a great night with lots of laughter and fun!
We spent the night Friday and got up to do some more work on Saturday morning. Unfortunately, the wind was blowing very hard and it was extremely cold. Instead of finishing up our landscaping work, the Children's Home put us to work helping with inventory in their commissary. They get tons of food and supplies donated, and each year they must count every item that they have. We were able to do most of that counting for them and save them lots of work!
We are really proud of the students who served in Portales. They showed the love of Christ as they made new friendships and as they worked hard to help out a very worthy cause!
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Helping Hands
Our 4th grade students visited Roadrunner Food Bank recently as a class. Before the trip, the school collected non-perishable food items to donate. We were able to collect 300 pounds of food, which translates into feeding 300 people.
At Roadrunner, the students helped sort canned food and produce. Their hard work allowed them to sort 2500 pounds of canned food and another 2500 pounds of produce! Wow! In Matthew it says, "Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?" God will answer "whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me." We are proud of our 4th grade students and the way they have served God by helping others!
At Roadrunner, the students helped sort canned food and produce. Their hard work allowed them to sort 2500 pounds of canned food and another 2500 pounds of produce! Wow! In Matthew it says, "Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?" God will answer "whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me." We are proud of our 4th grade students and the way they have served God by helping others!
Friday, February 16, 2018
Small Deeds with Big Results
Recently our school adopted a student in Honduras. This child wants to go to high school and complete their education, but does not have the ability to pay the necessary fees. Our friends at El Ayudante in Honduras offer a scholarship program to students who will work hard to finish school. So we raised money to pay for a student to be able to go to school this year!
Our kindergarten students wanted to be a part of this mission to serve others, so they decided to work hard too! Each student in class completed a chore or job at home and then got paid for that work. The students then brought the money they earned to school and put it in a jar. At the end of their work, they earned $74.00 to help sponsor the student!
We are so proud that some of our youngest students have worked so selflessly to help someone else. Way to go kindergarten!!
Our kindergarten students wanted to be a part of this mission to serve others, so they decided to work hard too! Each student in class completed a chore or job at home and then got paid for that work. The students then brought the money they earned to school and put it in a jar. At the end of their work, they earned $74.00 to help sponsor the student!
We are so proud that some of our youngest students have worked so selflessly to help someone else. Way to go kindergarten!!
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Joining In
The purpose of Do Something 1:8 is to strive to be the hands and feet of Jesus in our community. Our middle school students are able to serve in many different ways and in different locations. That doesn't mean our elementary school students are left out, however. They are serving in their own ways!
During the holidays, our 3rd grade classes visited the Ronald McDonald house as their service project. They prepared for their visit by writing stories about their Christmas Village display and making them into placemats for the house. They also made Christmas tree centerpieces for their dining room and collected gift cards to be given to the residents of the house.
When they arrived, they were given a tour of the house by the Volunteer Programs Manager. The students wiped down the tables in the dining room and placed the placemats and centerpieces on them. The students enjoyed serving others and we're proud of them for making a difference!
During the holidays, our 3rd grade classes visited the Ronald McDonald house as their service project. They prepared for their visit by writing stories about their Christmas Village display and making them into placemats for the house. They also made Christmas tree centerpieces for their dining room and collected gift cards to be given to the residents of the house.
When they arrived, they were given a tour of the house by the Volunteer Programs Manager. The students wiped down the tables in the dining room and placed the placemats and centerpieces on them. The students enjoyed serving others and we're proud of them for making a difference!
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