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The Gift Of Encouragement: From One Student To Another

For the past three years the middle and high school students have been meeting together in small groups. These groups meet every other week for fellowship, worship, Bible study, and sometimes, to simply come together to bring joy to others.

Recently Kara Karnes' small group of seventh graders decided that they wanted to serve others around campus and make them smile, so the team came up with the idea of making Encourage Stones and leaving them around campus for others to find. The girls brought in the paint and stones and set to work decorating and laying them out.

Margaret Askins, a member of Karnes' small group, said the group chose to do Encourage Stones because “we wanted to have something for little kids to find to cheer them up if they were having a bad day!”

Lower school student Tinley Hargrove was lucky enough to find one. “I was walking to my car when I found it. I think it is an amazing idea. It made me feel that God put me there to find it.”

Spanish Club Have Hearts To Serve

When Sandra Pabst started the Spanish Club three years ago, she wanted to bring knowledge about Spanish culture into the lives of the Upper School students that couldn’t be learned from a textbook.

What Pabst didn’t anticipate was the overwhelming participation and outpouring of love that each of her 40+ club members would bring to the club.

“The purpose was to expose the members to a beautiful world in need of amazing leaders. Leaders with a serving heart. I was also led by the Lord to find opportunities for the members to experience Him through real joy. I started this club in order to be with my students from lower school so they could have special moments in their heart.”

Two weeks ago members of the Spanish Club volunteered to serve at the Lamb Institute's 12th annual "Dinner Party With A Purpose" where Friends of LAMB in the Charleston area gathered in person while LAMB friends worldwide joined for an online event. All of the proceeds helped to support the Children's Home in San Buenaventura, Honduras. Our Spanish Club members not only helped to serve at the banquet, but also cleaned and disassembled all tables and chairs that were used. 

“The most important part of this banquet,” Pabst said, “was not only how God blessed ministry but also to see the joy on all the members' faces while serving. I am so thankful to the Lord for giving us the opportunity to experience joy, hope, and love by serving.”