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This week is mission week for Elizabethtown Christian Academy according to Mrs. Beverly Bridgers, Headmaster at the local Christian School. Students in all grade levels have been planning and preparing to carry out their various mission projects.

“Missions Week” is something Bridgers has wanted to organize since she was named as Headmaster at Elizabethtown Christian Academy. The children had to raise $4,000 for the Feeding Children Everywhere mission.

ECA students packed 10,000 meals on Wednesday, March 8, with the help from Feeding Children Everywhere as part of their mission projects. The meals the local students packed contained pink salt, vegetables, rice, and lentils to make a lentil case.

“This is the neatest thing,” said Bridgers.

Feeding Children Everywhere is a non-profit organization which has been in existence for six years, according to Maria with the Orlando based non-profit. The mission oriented non-profit company has provided 63 million meals through their program. Maria said Feeding Children Everywhere has fed children all across the world, but the food the Elizabethtown school packed will go to Second Harvest Food Bank of Southeast North Carolina.

On Thursday morning, the third and fourth grade students at ECA were fulfilling one of their mission projects by picking up trash at Leinwand Park and helping the members of the Elizabethtown Fire Department.

Elizabethtown Planning Technician Billie Hall said that Bridgers contacted the two staff and said the students wanted to perform a service project and asked what they could do to help with the parks. Hall said the town staff decided the students could help with a clean-up project at Leinwand Park and the Elizabethtown Fire Department also had a project for the students on Thursday.

The students enjoyed the opportunity to go outside the classroom and help others. Each grade level had their own mission projects to complete this week. Some of the mission projects included serving those who serve us, cooking for those who feed us by helping to decorate tables in the CAC building with table cloths and helping to cook, preparing and helping to bake cupcakes and preparing goodie bags to be distributed to the EMS department and doctor’s offices, making packages of school supplies for primary school K-2 teachers, and going out into the community to help seniors with such things as raking and cleaning, etc.