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Making An Impact Through Worship

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After many months of silence, the sounds of worship are filling the halls of PCA as the Impact Team begins another year of leading worship. Once again this talented team of singers, instrumentalists and technical crew use their gifts to honor the Lord and bless the student body during weekly Chapels. In order to prepare for each Chapel, Impact members spend many hours planning, rehearsing, and practicing every week.

While each student brings something unique to the team, students also recognize what they receive from serving. Olivia Martin is the music director, plays the keyboard and sings. "Serving on the Impact Team has been a great opportunity to use my love of music to praise Jesus. I love that there is a team of students with the same passion I get to do that with," says Martin. 

Anna Jaye Walters returns to the Impact Team playing lead guitar and singing. Seasoned vocalists Madison Broach, Bella Byham and Dani Wulff also are in their second year. "Serving on the Impact Team has been very beneficial for me personally because it gives me a way to own my faith and display it to others," senior Madison Broach says. 

Newcomer Aly Godwin has been a special addition this year playing the bass guitar. Sophomore Will Wheeler returns leading our rhythm section on the drums. "Serving in a group of like-minded people is amazing," says Wheeler. 

Keeping the music team sounding great and the video streamed into our classrooms is the amazing technical crew of Abby Creech, Colby Dumont and Hannah ZumBrunnen.

PCA teachers, Quinn Disrud and Kathy Thames are in their second year assisting with the student-led Impact Team. "The Impact Team is so important to the heart of PCA because these students are choosing to take leadership roles in something that is near to the heart of God, worship. Watching these students grow spiritually and musically is an absolute joy," said Mrs. Thames.

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Exploring South Carolina Regions

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What do potting soil, sand, and playdough have in common? They all were used to help show the third graders which features make up the South Carolina regions.

Third grade teacher Angie Andrews explains, "Third graders have been learning about the six regions of South Carolina. Within each region, they have been examining the physical features (things of God and nature) and human features (things made by man). Students made colorful regions booklets and wooden maps that show how the regions represent places that have things in common. Maps include areas with sand, sand and soil, dark orange paint, and Play-Doh mountains, and blue glitter glue rivers."

When asked what he learned from the project that he didn't know before, Webb Barnes said, "I learned that each region of South Carolina is really different."

Haven Holmquest said that before this lesson she didn't realize "where the regions were or that each region had a different kind of land."

Along with the learning came the fun of the students gluing the material to the wooden state cut-outs. Steen Suddeth said that his favorite part of putting it all together was, "gluing the soil because my hands got dirty."

As Mrs. Andrews likes to say, "Hands-on learning makes third grade great fun!"

And from the "smiling eyes" of all her students, they would seem to agree.

 

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