Christmas Prayer Garden

Hello 7C parents,

Students are brought home a Christmas items collection drive flyer Friday. I wanted to send an email just in case you did not have the opportunity to see it with the rest of their Friday papers.

As many of you may know, we do not do any Christmas gift exchanges at Zion. Instead, we have decided various departments or classrooms will do a service project instead.  Zion Lutheran Junior High continues our Walkathon service project with a December items drive.

Sparrows Nest continues to be the organization we are sponsoring this year. We have been blessed to gift them with a cash donation of $900 AND an $1800 donation to go toward their passenger van; all this from our junior high kids, their families, and many other supporters of the walk-a-thon! 

Carissa Figgins (Sparrow's Nest director) plans to use the $1800 to encourage companies/donors to match our students donations. The idea that if our kids can do this - so can YOU!

Now, on to our items drive. Mrs. Figgins plans to build a prayer garden for the young women at her maternity home -- a place they can go to pray, work, relax, etc.  She suggested a Christmas Prayer Garden items drive. No mittens or scarf tree for us - we are hoping for flower pots, rakes, trowels, and work gloves so that we can grow a tree! (Gift cards work too - think about Together We're Better as an option.)

We hope you can help. We have set a goal that each classroom collect at least 10 - 15 items. See attached flyer for additional ideas. Please have students bring in items this and next week (12/2nd-13th).  Thank you for your continued support.

Blessings to you this Christmas season,

Mrs. Cluck and the Junior High staff