Each year, especially during the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons, our Bible, chapel and spiritual emphasis programs stress to our Elementary students the importance of supporting and being involved with both local and foreign missions. Our students learn that in today’s world active participation in missions is an integral part of being a Christian. It is our hope that through this process of serving and helping others, our students will gain a better understanding of not only the vast needs that surround us but that they would also learn the many lessons that Jesus taught us about service to others. Throughout the entire school year our elementary students are given an opportunity each week to bring an offering to help support various missions around the world. Also each year every class or grade is encouraged to select a specific local or world mission for students to identify with, pray for and support. Many of these missions revolve around the Thanksgiving and Christmas season and some even offer the opportunity for our students to actually go to a local mission site. Some of the missions that have been selected for this special time of the year are The Desoto Interfaith Food Program, Operation Christmas Basket, Calvary Rescue Mission, Christmas Cards for Soldiers, Operation Christmas Child, Good Shephard’s Fold Orphanage in Africa, Gospel for Asia, and ARMS Ministry in Chicago.
The Bible tells us throughout the Old and New Testament we are to share with others who are in need what we have been so blessed to receive. Through emphasizing missions to our students at SBEC, it is our hope and prayer that students will grow up with servants’ hearts but even more a heart for sharing that marvelous story of the Christ Child who came to this world to be our Savior and our King.
David Fox, Elementary Principal
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