Students, Teachers, Staff, Parents, Alumni and Friends:
Celebrating Community is a year-long, school-wide community service effort to commemorate our commitment to service, community and our 30th anniversary of St. Margaret’s Episcopal School.
St. Margaret’s Episcopal School is challenging all members of our community to commit the 2009-2010 school year to community service, with a school-wide goal of 30,000 hours of service. Through this effort, we endeavor to advance our longstanding commitment to service and community, provide new and foster existing service learning experiences for our students and help those in our community.
We need your help: Together, we will reach this goal through involvement with local charitable organizations and service projects, creating new ones, sharing what we’re already doing and encouraging others to get involved.
We’ve aligned the Celebrating Community effort with the Episcopal Church’s focus on the United Nations Millennium Development Goals to end extreme poverty and hunger by 2015.We’re focusing on these goals because the world has collectively defined these issues as the most urgent we face across the globe, and that progress can be made to reach these goals in all corners of the world, near and far, in our own communities. Read more about the MDGs.
Your Stories
- Middle School Brings Valentine Wishes to Seniors
Name:Tristan Walters, Austin Hall
Grade: Middle School
Organization:Silverado Senior Living
Hours: 57
On February 12, students in St. Margaret’s Middle School made flower bouquets for the elderly of Silverado Senior Living. The flowers were brought in that morning by the students. Many students participated in this project, and we ended up making 85 flower bouquets. We also made cards [...] - Oatmeal Warms Rainy & Cold Morning
Name: Anne Mack
Grade: Lower School
Organization: local homeless
Hours: 9
On February 6, our family and my sister’s family, the Dehesas, made hot oatmeal and hard boiled eggs for St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church’s Saturday meal program for the homeless in our local community. Following Mrs. Lora Allison’s easy directions to prepare 35 individual servings, we made the oatmeal [...] - SMES US Men’s Soccer Program helping Haiti
Name: Colin Shaffer
Grade: Upper School
Organization: Soles 4 Souls
Hours: 35
Through Sport Chalet and Soles 4 Souls, the SMES US Men’s Soccer Program put on a shoe drive to provide support for the earthquake victims in Haiti. The main obective was to collect shoes to send to Haiti. The soccer team held the drive beginning Wednesday, January [...]
Service Opportunities
- THANK-A-MILITARY-FAMILY CHRISTMAS OUTREACH
- Operation Holiday Homework Gift Drive for Boys and Girls club of Capistrano Valley
- Middle School Gently Used Clothing Drive
- Family Assistance Minitries Can food drive
- NATIONAL FAMILY VOLUNTEER DAY November 21, 2009
- Dana Point Turkey Trot (www.turkeytrot.com) (Thanksgiving Day)
- Doheny State Beach Interpretive Association – “Thanks to the Ocean Beach Cleanup”
- Fr. Serra’s Pantry Donation Table--Need Volunteers to Man Table in San Clemente
- “Knitting Together” Contact Ingrid Andrews @ iandrews@smes.org
- The Donna O’Neill Land Conservancy (Trail Clearing and weeding) Contact Pam Virk (pam.virk@smes.org)
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