Everest’s annual S.O.C.K.S. Day is an apostolic opportunity for our elementary students to reach out to the community and make a difference. For the past several years S.O.C.K.S. Day – Serving Our Community Kid-Style – has been held during the Lenten season as a concrete way for academy students to live the apostolic formation dimension of Integral Formation as well as the Lenten disposition of almsgiving.
Representatives of the organizations that the students supported were invited to the monthly spirit assembly. Each class presented their project to the rest of the academy students.
Preschool welcomed Officer Austin Lowney from the Detroit Police Department. The class had made muffins for his precinct as well as the Independence Township Fire Department. Preschoolers also collected 400 books to be donated to students in Detroit who do not have any books at home. Junior kindergarten and kindergarten made toiletry bags for Grace Centers of Hope. First grade will be visiting residents of Lourdes Nursing Home next month. They have made decorative sun catchers to brighten residents’ rooms. Second grade compiled nearly 40 birthday bags for Neighbor to Neighbor. The bags include everything needed for a birthday part. Third grade made muffins to be distributed with the daily meals that Meals on Wheels distribute to residences of Independence Township. Four grade fundraised to sponsor a dog through Leader Dogs for the Blind. Fifth grade gathered items for parents in nee to be donated to the Oxford Pregnancy Center.
After presenting their projects, students prayed together for all those their gifts would reach.
