Community Service
The Boyd-Buchanan Alpha Delta Girl’s Service Club is “Always Serving.” With this slogan at the forefront of our mission, we look for opportunities to serve all year long, but we have one major service project each year. We sponsor the “Share Your Christmas” food drive for the Chattanooga Area Food Bank. We collect canned food and take it down to First Tennessee Pavilion in early December. We then spend the rest of the day sorting and boxing food. In 2007 our school collected 3,025 pounds of food! This year we hope to take 5,000 pounds. We have one major fund raiser that helps us be able to have money to give when the need arises. We sell carnations and kisses each Valentine’s Day. This money is used to do things like help families who have lost their homes to fire, or sponsor people in the American Cancer Society Marathon.
“Service for the Season” Project
“Service for the Season” is our 2008 school-wide service project celebration day on December 8, where elementary, middle and high school will come together in the Jett Gym to organize, pack, and wrap different items for different organizations.
Each year, as a commitment to mission work, the high school chooses different service projects to complete in an effort to better the Chattanooga community. Typically, each grade level chooses a different organization they would like to help sponsor; however, this year, the entire high school is working together to help sponsor Christmas for Young America Ministries. Young America Ministries is a non-profit organization that is sharing the love of Jesus with children living in low-income housing communities by building positive relationships, starting Bible studies, and teaching life skills necessary to thrive in today's world. They work in Chattanooga trailer parks, apartment complexes, youth detention centers, and prisons. This year, the high school has collected money, children’s books, and wrapping paper with plans to help spread the Word of God and the joy of Christmas with this “Service for the Season” project celebration.
On celebration day, the high school will be divided in to different grade level stations. The seniors will be wrapping the presents purchased for Young America children, the juniors will be making magnetic gingerbread photo frames for the families of Young America, the sophomores will be making bookmarks to go along with each book collected for the children, and the freshman will be making edible treats for the children of Young America. Along with these service projects for Young America, the high school Girls Alpha Delta club will be organizing canned goods that the students have collected the past 6 weeks to help support the WRCBTV3 Share Your Christmas Food Drive.
Middle school students have also been collecting items for Young America Ministries. Students have been donating coats and books for children ages 5-12 to “share” with the children of Young America Ministries and on the morning of “Service for the Season,” students will be organizing and packing these coats by size and gender. Care packages will also be assembled that morning for the NHC Healthcare “adopted” grandparents and will be delivered by our students. Middle school students are also supporting the Share Your Christmas Food Drive by collecting canned food items. With the high school and middle school combined, we hope to reach our weight goal of 5,000 lbs.
Our elementary students have created a service project of their own based on a request from one of our Boyd-Buchanan administrators, Major Kevin Lee, who is presently on his third tour of duty at a military base in Djibouti, Africa. During his time in Africa, he has become very aware of two school groups who are desperately struggling to establish a learning environment. The students have nothing – no books, pencils or paper. The average daily temperature is 110 degrees. At playtime, a rolled – up shirt is used for a ball. Boyd-Buchanan Elementary wants to “reach across” 7,748 miles and help the children of Djibouti and Ali Sabieh, Africa. Major Lee has given us a list of school and student needs. Elementary students have been collecting the following items to send to Major Lee in Africa so that he can distribute these goods to the schools and students: pencils, binders, Frisbees, deflated soccer balls, notebook paper, flash cards, and erasers. On the morning of December 8, elementary students will be packing these items into boxes to be shipped to the African city schools.
Boyd-Buchanan is honored to be a part of these service projects to further our mission work in the Chattanooga area. If you would like more information please call Haylee Hughes at 423-624-9064.