As the school promotes their goal in serving for Jesus Christ, the high school will be participating in service projects throughout the city ofFresno on Thursday, March 6.

Students will be participating in several projects like cleaning up parks, helping at the Community Food Bank, cleaning up graffiti, reading to young kids, helping at churches, assisting at the community garden and serving neighborhood thrift stores.

A few weeks ago, the students signed up for their service projects during a Thursday Chapel. The day of service, students are required to bring their own lunch, and will be loaded on buses at 9:55 a.m. and travel to their destination.

Principal, Todd Bennett, expects the students to work on these projects as an example of what FC’s mission is. He provides these projects to let the students understand what Jesus did for others.

“Our mission at FC is to equip young people for a lifetime of service and worship of Jesus Christ,” Bennett said. “The only way you serve Jesus Christ is by serving your community because were called as Christians to be the salt and the light, and to represent Jesus in our community. So when you think about things that Jesus did, He served others. So it’s important that as young people, we understand that that it’s a role that is critical to our Christian mission and it’s something we can do throughout our lives.”

Leadership advisor, Robert Foshee, believes the service day is a great way to show love for the community. He recognizes the opportunity FC has to commence in a day like this, seeing it is not a common activity among high schools.

“There’s no other school that takes the whole day doing service projects, they will think it’s crazy,” Foshee said. “But we know that it is important to have emphasis in service, so we do it because God has called us to love others. So one way we can show our love to others is to serve them like how Jesus served His disciples.”

Leadership student, Maddie Luginbill, ’16, is looking forward to working for other people. She loves to have a spirited heart to work for the community.

“I think doing service projects are good for people to be involved and know what it feels like to put others before yourself,” Luginbill said. “Whatever I do at the service projects, I will do with a happy spirit because I am helping others.”

Julian Castro, ’17, thinks that this is a way for students to be involved instead of just doing schoolwork.

“I think it’s a good change of pace,” Castro said. “We’ve just been sitting here doing schoolwork, so I think it’s nice to help the community. I signed up for helping with the churches so we will probably be cleaning up or setting up for the churches.”

Believing it is a great way to interact and show support for the community, Viviana Hinojosa, ’14, is excited to participate in the day. She hopes the high school really embraces the projects they will be involved in, seeing it as a great opportunity to serve.

“I think it’s great that our school is carrying out this service day,” Hinojosa said. “The chance for our entire high school to participate in something like this is really neat. I’m excited to spend the day serving the community and ultimately giving back.”

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