HCS 8th Graders Minister to REACH

Dear 8th grade families,

 

Thank you all so much for your participation in the ministry dinner last night.  You were all so generous with contributing to the dinner, and with your time spent encouraging the folks from REACH.  Thank you for coming together in the unity of Christ to set up, interact, pitch in with needed tasks, clean up....just everything!! 

The students did an amazing job and I was so proud of how they represented our school and our Lord.  Many of the REACH staff commented to me that our students were incredibly kind, mature, and thoughtful.  They truly reflected the light of Jesus and the REACH residents seemed to really enjoy our school.  It was touching having the REACH residents give hugs, want to write down Bible verses that were listed on the school wall, and to hear them shout "Go Falcons" to the high schoolers practicing basketball in the gym!

 

Thank you, thank you to each one of you for making the night a special ministry unto the Lord!

In Him,

Heather

Dear Heather,

Thank you for all of your work.  I know the clients enjoyed their time at your event because their peers who did not get to go expressed a desire to come “next time”.  Word around the Work Center (where gossip spreads like wild-fire) is that everyone had a great time.

 

Please tell the students who were there that I was very impressed with the way they interacted with the people we serve. Their compassion, ease, and grace made me optimistic for the future. Most adults don't interact as comfortably with our clients as your kids did.

 

If anyone who attended the event on Monday would like to have a tour of our Work Center, please have them contact me.  My top two favorite job responsibilities are helping people get to know our clients and helping people to get to know the work we do at Reach Inc.  I am happy to give a tour any time.

Thanks, again.

Sincerely,

Dee

Dee Metrick

Community Relations and Development Director

Reach Inc.

HCS 2nd Graders Work with Eagle Mount

Four students and a sibling from Heritage:  Samuel, Sophia, Hannah Botz and Daniel and Mikaela Johnson and two parents, Sandy Botz and Karna Johnson enjoyed serving at Eagle Mount on August 2nd.  We joined the horticulture class where we learned about preparing irises for replanting, helped gather vegetables from the garden plot to be prepared for the Farmer's Market, tackled the task of weeding around the raised garden beds and enjoyed a "lemonade" tea party  with all the participants.  It was a fun couple of hours filled with learning, serving and meeting new people.

Produce harvested from the Eagle Mount garden to be sold at Farmers' Market

The "shorter one in the back row" is the scarecrow in the garden