Service Day November 21, 2008

"Living a Life of Service and Praise" is our theme for this school year. On November 21, the day before our Thanksgiving break, the students of First Lutheran had a great opportunity to put that theme into action. Many of our classes participated in service projects around the community. Our pre schoolers helped collect trash around our campus. The kindergarten class visited Highland Manor and did activities with the residents there. And our middle schoolers had 3 different projects that they participated in. Some of them took part in Adopt a Mile and picked up trash in our neighborhood. Some went to Grace House and did yard work and clean up. Another group delivered the canned goods and perishable items we had collected to RCS and spent time working there unloading trucks and sorting food. First RCS weighed the food we brought in and we were proud to find out our total was 1,330 pounds of food. Our goal had been 800 pounds (10 pounds for every run the Rays had scored in the post season). This day was such a huge success that we look forward to more service days during the rest of the school year.

Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith, and in purity. I Timothy 4:12