"Our students have a chance to learn about situations they don’t get to see very often and then respond to the needs. The kids have a real sense of what’s right and what’s wrong and they love to respond to that knowing what God desires from them."

Xan Morgan, Middle School Teacher  

Service projects offer a way to apply these principles and teach the importance of caring for God's world. For example, fifth graders at AACS recently experienced first hand what it means to serve the poor. The students learned about grant writing, wrote to a local foundation asking for money to pay for meals at a local soup kitchen, received funding, and then served the meals. "If one person helps, then others may also start helping. We were following God's command to help the poor," explained one student.

Other outreach events have included:

• Raising money for Christian schools in India and Haiti
  
• Doing yardwork for the elderly or for low-income families
• Singing at local retirement homes
• Delivering mittens to a local shelter
• Sponsoring canned food drives
• Collecting cans and bottles as part of Earth Day
• Raising money and collecting household products for Hurricane Katrina victims
  
• Collecting money to buy heat for elderly members of a Native American tribe
• Sending books to a Christian school in Eastern Europe and a public school in South Dakota
  
• Raising funds for the construction of a well for a village in Ghana