High School Service Requirement
The yearly service requirement for every high school student is for him or her to contribute 40 hours of service. If your student is not going on one of the annual service trips organized by The King's Academy, he or she MUST apply to fulfill the requirement by turning in an Alternative Service Application Form to the SAO in order to get approval for the service he or she wishes to contribute toward the requirement, followed at the completion of the service by an Alternative Service Evaluation Form in order to be allowed to return to The King's Academy the following year.
Below are some important dates and forms for Alternative Service:
Alternative Service Information
Alternative Service Application Form - Due January 23, 2009
Alternative Service Evaluation Form - Due May 28, 2009
Service Trips 2009
Service Trips 2008
Last spring 2008, TKA high school students traveled to Mexico as part of the Mexico Service Trip. Over 525 high school students, parent volunteers and staff members caravanned down in 90 vehicles to the outskirts of Tijuana. In addition to building eighteen houses, they began construction of a new orphanage and hosted morning and afternoon “Kid's Clubs” for neighborhood children and their families.
With enormous devastation still at large in the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina, 62 juniors, seniors, staff and adult volunteers traveled to St. Bernard's Parish, Louisiana. With the expertise they’ve gained through the Mexico Service Trip, students were well prepared to help with the jobs that involved more skill. There they installed new sheetrock, installed new roofing, and gutted and painted a number of homes, including a transitional housing unit.
A third option for junior and senior students was a service trip to the Appalachian Mountains, where the basic necessities of life are non-existent for many people. 35 students, staff and parent volunteers traveled to Paintsville, Kentucky to restore hope and dignity to the people in the surrounding rural areas, working with Christian Appalachian Project (CAP), an organization that has, for more than a decade, sponsored Operation New Hope, a special program designed to meet the most basic housing needs of impoverished families struggling to survive in Appalachia.
During the summer of 2008, 36 students, parents, and staff flew to Lima, Peru to work with Frontline Ministries and minister to children in the poverty-stricken beach town of Pachacutec. They went to the jungle town of Pucallpa to work at El Refugio de Esperanza – a school for physically handicapped children – where they helped with construction projects and built relationships with children through a daily VBS. They also went to a tiny village, Bella Vista along the Ucayali River and ministered to adults and children who have little contact with outsiders.
Service Above and Beyond
There are three all-school service projects that take place throughout the year. The purposes of these service projects are to give every student in every grade an opportunity to serve others in their local community, and to bring more awareness to SERVICE as being an everyday attitude, augmenting the once-a-year missions trips.
The Service Projects selected for the 2008-2009 school year are:
September 19-26 - Blanket Drive
November 7-17 - Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child
January 23-Febuary 6 - Pajama Program Drive
The King’s Academy has many clubs on campus that also participate in various service projects and volunteer experiences. |
