Faith, excellence, and service are three key characteristics
shared by every Montgomery Catholic Preparatory School student. Each campus
participates in various community service projects throughout the year, and
there are many clubs that are dedicated to community outreach. Each year during
Lent, every student from the high school campus participates in a Lenten Day of
Service. Groups of students head out into the community to spend the day
working on a service project. The needs of the organizations in the area are
many, and each project is unique. Through their labors, the students not only
learned about the important role each organization plays in the community, but also,
they got to experience the amount of time and effort that is put into keeping
these groups running.
The types of projects were varied and served many different
organizations. A group of girls headed to the E.A.T. South community farm to
clean chicken coops and plant seedlings. One group of boys cleared bush and
cleaned signs at the Lanark Alabama Nature Center while another scrubbed
wheelchairs at the Montgomery Public Schools Children’s Center. Another group
of boys assembled furniture at the Family Sunshine Center while a group of
girls assembled care packages for Footprints Ministry, an organization that
helps to comfort mothers whose newborns are in intensive care.
“It is important that our students use their hands to serve
in the community around them,” said history teacher Stefanie Nelson, who
organizes community outreach at the Montgomery Catholic high school campus.
“All of our faculty get involved in this project, and it’s through their leadership
that our students learn the importance of community service.”
