On Friday, April 29, Mount Paran Christian School students and their families participated in the school’s annual Family Serve Day. The yearly tradition of serving the community benefited nearly 40 community ministry partners.
Family Serve Day is a designated day where all MPCS students, parents, teachers, and staff join together in teams to serve others throughout the community. The school unites with families to develop servant-leaders, with the aim that service becomes a lifestyle for families at MPCS.
MPCS Assistant Director of Christian Life Jean Ann Murphy organized the school-wide service day and says, “Our mission at MPCS is to prepare servant-leaders to honor God, love others and walk in truth. We believe it is our responsibility as believers to serve in our community. While we should constantly be looking for opportunities to serve others, this is a special day where we can go out into the local community as a school family and give back as we have been given so much. Many students and parents have told me it is their favorite day of the year. Seeing the joy on students’ faces as they work hard to serve others is what makes the planning of this event so worthwhile.”
In all, more than 1,050 MPCS students in grades 5 through 12, parents, faculty, and staff served off-campus together. Additionally, all students in grades PK-4 participated in on-campus projects to benefit the community.
The 2022 MPCS Family Serve Day ministry partner sites included Action Ministries-Hope Atlanta, Bartow Family Resource Center, Belmont Hills Elementary, Books for Africa, Blue Skies Ministries, Calvary Children’s Home, Camp Gideon, City of Refuge, City Takers, Cobb Street Ministries, Dunleith Elementary School, Emily Lembeck Early Learning Center, Family Promise, Feed My Lambs – Austell, First Care Women’s Clinic, Foundation for Hospital Art, Gaines Park Assisted Living, Good Neighbor Homeless Shelter, Goshen Valley Boys Home, GRACEPOINT School, Hickory Hills Elementary School, JO Gives, McEachern Methodist, McKenna Farms, Mission 1:27 @ Walton Overlook, Mission 1:27 @ Walton Ridenour, Mission 1:27 @ Walton Ridge, Mission 1:27 @ Walton Village, MPCS Campus, MUST Ministries, Our Pal’s Place, Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church, The Salvation Army, Stonebridge Church, The Table on Delk, Thankful Baptist Church, and Vintage 242.
Service projects ranged from outdoor landscaping and cleanup to organizing food pantries and clothes closets. Among other activities, students made blankets for MUST Ministries, did yard work for The Salvation Army, prepared meals and did facility maintenance at the Table on Delk, and offered live musical performances for assisted living residents at Gaines Park.
Preschool and lower school students who remained on campus served by creating placements and snack bags, donated stuffed animals to the Kennesaw police department, made bracelets to support children in Ukraine, and worked in the school garden. Head of Lower School Dr. Deborah Davis shared, “It was a day full of service activities that I pray helped our students experience the blessing of serving.”
About Mount Paran Christian School
Mount Paran Christian School, the largest private Christian school in Cobb County, is a non-denominational, college-preparatory school for students in preschool age three through grade 12. MPCS is committed to excellence in academics, award-winning arts, and championship athletics, all within a Christian environment with small class sizes. Founded in 1976, MPCS is fully accredited (SAIS/Cognia) and located near Kennesaw Mountain on a 68-acre collegiate-like campus. Providing academic excellence in a Christ-centered environment, MPCS unites with home and church to prepare servant-leaders to honor God, love others, and walk in truth.
