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Community Service

 
 

The late Dawson Trotman, founder of The Navigators, once went to Taiwan as a guest speaker. At one point during the trip, Trotman was hiking with several national pastors through muddy pastures and, as an act of service, cleaned several of the pastors' shoes the next morning before anyone else woke.

After a great conference, where the Spirit of God moved among the people, one of the national pastors was asked what he would remember most about the week and Mr. Trotman specifically. Without hesitation the man replied, "He cleaned my shoes."

It is the firm belief of Temple Christian School that spiritual growth cannot occur without serving others. This service is modeled from administration down to our youngest classes, and is an integral part of our academic model. High school students must accumulate at least eighty hours of community service hours to graduate and are given multiple opportunities throughout the school year as well as being expected to take initiative on their own.

In particular, Temple Christian focuses on three unique opportunities: Cook Children's Hospital, Eastside Ministries, and Tarrant Area Foodbank. Click on the links below to see how Temple students are being the hands and feet of Jesus to the needy.

Mark 10:45
And whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
 
 

Serving Opportunities

 

 

  • Campus cleaning
  • 3rd grade - Temple Days Daycare reading buddies
  • 4th grade - lead music in elementary chapel; crossing guard duty
  • 5th grade – buddies with K4 in chapel and during dismissal; flag duty
  • Christmas stocking ministry
  • Clothing drives
  • Pennies for Patients – benefiting childhood cancer
  • Nursing home ministry

1. Except for Cook Children’s and Tarrant Area Food Bank, all other community service hours will be completed outside of school hours.
2. Projects will be approved for work through a non-profit community organization. Hours worked for Candy Stripers or working convalescent hospitals may be allowed but must be preapproved.
3. A total of 10 hours per year will be accepted for ministering in your church (playing in the band, helping in a Sunday school class etc.) or for Temple Christian School if no compensation is given.
4. Community Service hours will not be given for service performed for a parent or relative.
5. Hours earned for after school or weekend training or planning sessions may count towards community service when the training results in actual volunteer service towards the community.
6. Paid work will not be considered for community service hours.  
7. Hours worked for an organization that receives compensation will not count as community service.
8. The agency has the option of not signing the time sheet if the student’s job performance is not satisfactory. 
9. Mission Trips will count for 20 hours of community service.
10. Mission Trips that fulfill the graduation requirements for TCS will count for community service hours.
11.  Students entering Temple may have their community service hours prorated depending on the grade level in which they enrolled. Hours are prorated at 10 hours per year.
12. The High School office manager will document and record service hours.
13. All hours must be submitted using the form that is found on the TCS website.
14. Any hours outside of these guidelines must be approved by the academic committee. 
15. Students may begin earning community service hours during the summer after their 8th grade year, or earlier if approved by administration.
 

 

Temple began serving Cook Children's Hospital in 2013 and was the first school volunteer group the hospital has ever contacted and requested to come back!! Each visit the workers are amazed with how much our students are able to accomplish. Volunteers from Temple help in four main areas:

Parent Pantry

Parent Pantry provides 24 hours of food to a parent without resources at the hospital. As most come to the hospital via emergency and need time to gather resources, this is everything for one person in one bag. The bags are plain white paper, so the students decorate bags with smiles and encouraging messages – no doubt brightening a parents’ day.

Book Brigade

Groups of students go all over the Medical Center campus, retrieve the carts, empty them of trash, clean them, sort 2 pallets of books based on age appropriateness, fill the carts, and take them back to their original locations – Book Carts provide a source of comfort and distraction in our patient waiting areas.

Water Watcher Tags

This is a project Cooks does annually with Community Health Outreach to teach water safety to the community. The groups assemble over 3500 educational packets and tags – which because of their efforts could save lives at the pools this summer.

ER Coloring Bags

The assembly line of students unpack bulk packages of crayons, sort them into groups, run off copies of coloring pages, and stuff over 1000 baggies – the crayon packets are another source of distraction and comfort for our patients waiting to be seen in the ER.

 

Our students and teachers work in Quality Control sorting food for the primary feeding program. This is the distribution of food to the vast network of hunger-relief charities that provide emergency groceries, meals and snacks to Texans in need.

 
TARRANT AREA FOOD BANK
Phone: 817- 332- 9177
Address: 2600 Cullen Str. Fort Worth, TX 76107

 

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE
Phone: 817-870-4942
Address: 1001 8th Ave. Fort Worth, TX 76104