Building Community

In our planning of the year along with HOW and WHAT we teach at Covenant, each division has adopted a number of what we call 'Throughlines'.  Throughlines, simply put, are themes in our Christian walk that will shine through all of what we do and learn.  Essentially, once we know and accept the story of God's redemptive lordship over all of life, throughlines attempt to answer the question "How now shall we live?"

In our initial staff meetings, we chose which of 10-12 throughlines we would emphasize in each of our grade levels.  Once our discussions were through, it was evident that every single grade level wanted to emphasize 'Building Community' as a class.  At that point, it was obvious that this was to become a whole school focus.

As I write this, the grade 3/4 class is abuzz in the lobby helping the JK class with a project "God helps us to Grow" involving life sized cutouts of themselves.  Their skills and abilities at their age are being put to use helping others who cannot yet tackle such a big undertaking.  Along the way, great relationships are being formed and a shared pride over their beautiful work is a result!  

As a way to build community across the school, each of our classes has a buddy class to do similar things through the year.  It's just one small way of many that we are intentionally living out what God would have us do.