Operation
Christmas Child
Rockford Christian Families and River Rock Church
Families collected and delivered 230 shoe boxes for Operation Christmas
Child. Thank you for all your help!
Service Projects
This week the
students are doing service projects around the area.
Kindergarten and the 1st grade Students are headed to Cook Valley Estates on Tuesday to
serve the residents there. They baked muffins today and will pass them
out at Cook Valley tomorrow. The students will also be singing, doing a
craft, and spending time with the residents.
The 2nd graders, along with Senora Rose's Spanish
Immersion 1st/2nd grade class will be shopping at the grocery store for
breakfast foods to fill in Breakfast Bundles, which will go to support Kids
Food Basket. They will be using almost $300 that they made from pumpkin patch
sales to buy the food and supplies. The Students will fill Breakfast bundles
for many children in Grand Rapids when they are gone on long weekends or
holidays from school and they are not able to get breakfast. The Students will
also decorate sack supper bags for children in Grand Rapids.
The 3rd graders are collecting food items for Kids’ Food
Basket and also decorating bags with their kindergarten buddies for the sack
suppers.
The 4th graders have used some of the money
they earned from their school store to purchase books for Aberdeen Elementary
School. They will wrap the books and
deliver them to the Kids there. Each
child will get to take their books home.
The 5th grade class is splitting into two
groups. Some of the Kids will be
volunteering at Camp Roger. The other group will be visiting the residents at
Bishop Hills.
The 6th grade classes are going to the
Rockford American Legion to assist them with their November food pantry. The Environmental Classroom students help
them 2-3 times each year. It is a real
blessing for us as we help those who are less fortunate at this time.
The 7th grade class is cleaning up a family’s
yard in Rockford on Tuesday Morning.
The 8th grade class helped deliver Operation
Christmas Child boxes to the regional facility. Once they arrived at the facility, they prayed
over the boxes, packed them in cases and loaded them on a trailer. The
shoeboxes are now in route to their next destination, and will soon be in the
hands of happy children.
Jingle Bell Post
Office
The
Jingle Bell Post Office opens Monday, Dec. 2 with the last delivery date on
Friday, December 20.
Stamps,
Stationary, etc. are 5 cents each. (Donations are gladly accepted)
Proceeds
will go to the Velting's to help bring their little boy home from Ethiopia.
Parents
can buy stamps and send letters too!
Learning Commons News
We are excited that Rockford
Christian School students and staff are signed up to participate in Hour of
Code! During the week of December 9-15, GRCS students in grades
K-12 will be participating in “Hour of Code”, a campaign that is inviting 10
million students from around the world to try out the basics of computer science.
For more information: http://csedweek.org/
Thanks for all you do for God’s Kingdom!
Mr. Dave
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