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Fifth Grade Pack Blessing Bags

The entire fifth grade gathered together to celebrate Thanksgiving with a service project designed to connect our students with the needs they see around them. People all around our city are experiencing homelessness and struggling with basic necessities. Especially during these winter months, cold temperatures make that situation all the more hopeless.

The fifth graders spent the last several weeks gathering supplies and today packed over 200 blessing bags to disperse around Charleston. They filled each bag with gloves, hats, socks, food items, hygiene items, and a lot of handwritten notes of God’s love and hope. 

As part of this project, the parent volunteers partnered with local warming shelters, stocked community blessing boxes and sent each child home with blessing bags to have on hand and ready to disperse. Armed with the task of seeing the need in front of them and answering it immediately in a tangible way, these fifth grade students are already making a huge impact in and around our city!

Junior Class Fall College Tour

The Junior Class embarked on a 3-day Fall College Tour November 10th -12 that covered the following campuses: Clemson, Anderson, Furman, Wofford, Winthrop and The University of South Carolina. Students also attended an RUF (Reformed University Fellowship) worship service at Clemson University and enjoyed talking with PCA alumni as we visited their colleges. 

The purpose of this trip is for Juniors to view different types of campuses, allowing them to assess fit by interacting with current students and faculty, understand the overall academic and social atmosphere, and make informed decisions about where to apply in their senior year.