Community Service

 

Community Service as Sacred Action

 

With “love of God, love of self, and love of others” (from the Great Commandment of Jesus Christ) as the overarching theme of our Sacred Studies Program, sacred action is a significant portion of what we are about as a Christian academic community. As an Episcopal school we pride ourselves in this component of our identity where community service speaks boldly of our to be servants to all in words and actions.

With school wide projects or individual class programs, random acts of kindness, school cleanup, recycling, environmental awareness, and giving to the poor and unfortunate is a natural extension of our education and awareness that we are only a small part of the whole human family. But what we do has enormous effects on others as well as ourselves.

 

• Some of the projects we participate in are:
• Thanksgiving Food Gathering for “Food for Families”
• Thanksgiving Turkeys for the “Community Caring Center”
• Gifts for the “Angels Tree Project”
• Assist with the Delray Christmas Tree raising
• Christmas Dinner for the “Angel Tree Dinner” (250 homeless)
• Pennies for Peace
• Place Flags on Veterans’ Graves
• Student leading Boynton Beach City Council Meeting opening prayer
• Beach clean-up
• Letters and cards for soldiers at war

As a school wide program, beginning each year at the Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi in October, and on a monthly basis, we award at chapel the Saint Francis Statue to a class that best demonstrates selfless love, service, and compassion for the school or broader community. Individual certificates are also awarded to outstanding students or adults.

 

All Middle School students are required for graduation to perform at least 60 hours of community service, split between campus and off-campus volunteer work. A “Saint Francis Prayer” Service award is presented to the graduating eighth grader that accumulates the most hours in their Middle School academic career. We have had honored students with as many as 700 hours!