By: Jacqueline Madden
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Harrells Christian Academy participated in their annual C-mester on February 22-24.
Yesterday, the school held a chapel program that allowed students from each team to share with the school what they did and how it affected them.
During C-mester, High School students were put into teams, each with a different mission project throughout the surrounding communities. The school reached out to communities in Harrells, Burgaw, Wallace, Rose Hill, Clinton, Fayetteville, Jacksonville, Wilmington, and even as far as Costa Rica.
Students visited with patients at Sampson Regional Hospital, rest homes in Clinton, and Pender Memorial Hospital in Burgaw. They read to children at Union elementary and Rose Hill Methodist Preschool and helped fix up and organize the Vine Church and Tim’s Gift in Clinton. A food drive was started throughout the entire school a few weeks prior to the mission week and during C-mester this food was delivered to Bladen Food Pantry, Warsaw Methodist Food Pantry, Wallace Presbyterian Food Pantry, the Eastern Baptist Association Food Pantry, the Harrells Senior Center, and to shut ins. Each box packaged included scripture verses. Students also gathered clothes, blankets, shoes and sanitary items and carried them to a church for the homeless in Fayetteville. The art class painted scripture verses onto boards that will be used to build a homeless shelter in Fayetteville as well. Students learned how to perform CPR, and became certified. Decorations for the Helping Hands Banquet were made by students as well as chairs painted to be donated to the Toy Store Ministries. Students made blankets that were delivered to patients at the Cancer Center in Clinton. Pocket flags folded by students were carried to Camp Lejeune to soldiers who will deploy and neck pillows made for wounded warriors there. Harrells Community teams visited with seniors at the Harrells Senior center and played games, ate lunch, and sang and worshipped with them. Teams in the Harrells community also helped fix up the middle school baseball field and build birdhouses for C-mester volunteers.
The school sent a team to a church in Wilmington, North Carolina. The team stayed in Wilmington for three days and helped fix up the church over the course of their stay there.
A team also travelled to Costa Rica through Joshua Expeditions.
At the end of each day, students returned to school and attended “Life Hacks” in which they learned financial, auto, and life’s journey hacks.
The lower school class that brought in the most cans for the food drive got to experience high school life for a day. The 1st grade class got to try on sports uniforms, tour the high school building, visit the biology lab, and meet some of the teachers.
All students who shared during the chapel program said that they enjoyed reaching out and sharing the love of Jesus to the communities around them.
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