Our St. George Children served others, learned about Advent, and took a ride on the Polar Express this month. Kids for Christ completed their “Mission Possible,” where they performed acts of kindness for our Castle Hills Community. (Click here for more). In C3:16, children made advent wreaths with their families and received devotional readings to take home and use with their families. Finally, church and school children enjoyed our annual Polar Express party! Maricela Ramos, a church and school parent shared this letter about this wonderful tradition.
My daughter has participated in the Polar Express event every year for the past three years and my son began participating this year. This is something that at the age of four and six, they are still talking about one week later. The magic of the movie coupled with the magic of friends they have made at St George has created memories in their sweet little hearts. A chance to sit back, eat as much popcorn as they can handle while giggling and enjoying the idea of “Believing” was a precious moment that I will not forget, as I chose to stay and bring my own pillow and blanket. Once the movie was over, they enjoyed the holiday cookies with hot cocoa while laughing at each other’s milk mustaches. The type of cookies didn’t matter, what mattered was the fellowship and feeling of being connected and slowing down to enjoy the Christmas Spirit. Daniel, our Youth Ministry Leader, collected the sugar filled children and played marshmallow dodgeball with the active, silly children. Winning wasn’t the object of the game, playing with food and having the older ones help the little ones was the object of Daniel’s game. My children talked about it for days afterwards and look forward to creating more memories in the years to come. Thank you to St George Church, Happy Wilson and Daniel Foreman for their dedication to making this season special for all the children and adults like me, alike!
St. George extends a sincere thank you to the Kahlig Auto Group for its donation of $3000 to the Rector’s Discretionary Fund to “[help] some of [our] families at Christmas” We are grateful to Billy Vaughn, who along with his wife Susie, are wonderful and generous friends of the St. George Community. Billy and Susie’s children attended St. George School and maintain a passion for the outreach ministry done by our St. George Community.
Out of 120 schools….St. George Episcopal School was named a winner of the Ken Bastian Community Service Award at the 2015 Southwestern Association of Episcopal School’s Biennial Conference.
This award is presented to a member school of the Association that has established an exemplary means of encouraging students to give of themselves in some form of community service or service learning.
Join us at St. George Episcopal School’s DragonFest! Our annual fall festival is open to all. We will have food, inflatables, games and more! Click here for details!
On a campus that never sleeps, we at St. George had the privilege of hosting almost 200 high-schoolers from the Diocese of Texas for their annual week-long Missionpalooza event. This group of God-loving teens spent every day of their visit spreading out throughout the city of San Antonio doing mission work at places like Habitat for Humanity, Good Sam Shelter, Providence House, and others. They made our campus their home, worshiped in our Sanctuary, slept in our gym, and did God’s work. They offer a sincere thank you to everyone, especially Phillip Connor on our staff and Barbara Simon and Erlinda Blevins of our Altar Guild, for making their stay such a great experience!