August Beginnings

The starting of school offers fresh, exciting, and new beginnings for the academic year. It also gives ways to be involved with donations, physical help, and offered prayers.

Brina was shopping for school supplies for her children. In the check-out line, a man glanced in her basket and curiously asked why she was purchasing 150 notebooks. She explained, “I teach science and it wasn’t worth the hassle of trying to get kids to bring their own notebook, and that it takes away from time I could be teaching them.” As the cashier rang up the total, the man handed his credit card to her and paid for Brina’s cart full of her own children’s supplies as well as the notebooks for her students. An added blessing was that the man’s son witnessed his father’s kindness, generosity, and valuing of education.

 

Church members, families, and neighbors are meeting at schools in their community to pray for a safe, successful, and productive year for the faculty, staff, and students.

 

Groups are gathering backpacks, supplies, shoes, and clothing to gift to children, in order to offer them a successful start to the new school year.  

 

Teachers are posting wish lists of items that would be beneficial for teaching their students and people are purchasing them.   

 

Walt Disney Elementary School, in Alvin, Texas, was heavily damaged by a tornado, in December, 2024. Because of the outpouring of giving of their community, neighboring districts, the Disney Corporation, and generous donors, so many supplies were gathered for the students and teachers that they had to stop collecting. Every student received new school supplies for the Spring Semester. Earlier in August, parents were notified that because of the abundance of donations, supplies and a backpack were also being provided for the 2025-26 school year for every student!

 

May we, too, be willing to invest in the 2025-26 school year through giving, helping, encouraging with our spoken and written words, and praying.

 

And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Colossians 3:17