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    The Mission-Minded Guide to Church and School Partnerships
    The Mission-Minded Guide to Church and School Partnerships
    The Mission-Minded Guide to Church and School Partnerships
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    The Mission-Minded Guide to Church and School Partnerships

    By Jake McGlothin

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    Partnering your church family with a public school can be a rewarding experience, but also presents some unique challenges.


    The Mission-Minded Guide to Church and School Partnerships offers practical steps that congregations can take to make a difference with the children in their community.


    From basic organization, training, safety, and planning helps leaders will learn how to share the vision and effectively recruit and train volunteers. Most importantly, leaders will discover practical steps they can take to begin a two way, trusting relationship with a school, principal and teachers.


    In addition, there are suggestions for sharing information through newsletters, presentations, and special Sundays for welcoming the schools, teachers, and principals, and more.


    Inspire your church family to embrace the power they have to change lives and make a difference in their community.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbingdon Press
    Release dateApr 4, 2017
    ISBN9781501841378
    The Mission-Minded Guide to Church and School Partnerships
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    Jake McGlothin

    Jake McGlothin is the Director of Serve Ministries at Floris United Methodist Church in Herndon, Virginia. At Floris, he is responsible for all community service programs and mission work, including the church’s work with Hutchison Elementary School. Prior to working at Floris, Jake was a Peace Corps volunteer in Armenia and did disaster relief and recovery work in post-Katrina New Orleans. Jake holds a graduate degree from Wesley Theological Seminary. Jake lives with his wife Robin, his son Mack, and Maggie the dog.

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      The Mission-Minded Guide to Church and School Partnerships - Jake McGlothin

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      PARTNERSHIPS MATTER TODAY

      In this first chapter, I will explain why churches building partnerships with local schools makes sense today. Congregations across the country are starting to move in this direction, and many have already made the leap and partnered with schools over many years and even decades. Partnerships between churches and schools are a natural progression toward meaningful community engagement and ultimately, a glimpse into the kingdom of God.

      Generally, when a church is considering meeting a need or building a partnership with a local organization such as a school or social service agency, everyone involved needs to understand the issues surrounding the need. In this case, information regarding child poverty is startling. I’ll share some statistics on national poverty and provide you with some of the statistics that helped us better understand our partnership with our local school, Hutchison Elementary.

      From there, we will examine some of the risks that children in poverty face in life and learning. We must come to bear that in a developmental context, a high-quality education can make a huge difference not only in the life of the child but also in the communities in which these children reside. I’ll offer some insights on why I believe that the church and the school remain two of the most important institutions in our nation. Finally, I will talk in broad terms about the impacts of a partnership, not just on the school and students but also on the church and its members.

      Poverty and Children: Nationally and Locally

      Let’s take a look at poverty in our country, and how that ignites needs the church can help meet. Since the Great Recession of 2008, poverty in America has become an increasingly visible and challenging issue on America’s conscience. It’s a regular topic of political conversation. One does not have to look far to find people in our country who suffer socially and economically and communities that have suffered. Roughly 50 million people in America are living in poverty.¹ While great movements in the United States to eradicate poverty have been put forth in our past, rates of poverty remain high and the gap between the wealthy and the poor is widening. This difference just doesn’t seem to be that important anymore, which is disturbing and sad. Many reasons for this exist, such as partisan politics, corporate greed, government corruption, and indifference.

      The picture of poverty is grim, as it always has been. As Tavis Smiley and Cornel West opine in The Rich and the Rest of Us, We have gone from an aggressive stance on the eradication of poverty to passive, indifferent, and downright destructive positions where the poor are maligned and rendered invisible.² In a time of budget cuts, national debt, fiscal cliffs, and political pandering, we should recognize that the marginalized and the vulnerable in our society are most impacted. Children, the elderly, and the disabled live with the consequences from the political ramblings of Capitol Hill, cable news pundits, and talk radio around the nation. The voice of the poor is rarely heard. No matter your political leanings, a Christian should be one who stands on the side of those who can’t help themselves or who struggle to live in our society."

      If we are to ever see changes to poverty, the people of God and congregations across the country must make a stand and end indifference to those who are most impacted by the ills of poverty. The church must choose the side of the vulnerable, the marginalized, and the oppressed. Christ chose the vulnerable. Churches aligned with the vulnerable often find the Spirit of God with them in their work to eliminate poverty.

      According to the National Poverty Center, children make up 36 percent of the nation’s poor.³ For a nation with the greatest wealth, access to resources, and luxury of any civilization in all of human history, so many children living in such difficult socioeconomic situations is unacceptable. Imagine the rows and rows of food at our grocery stores that some children can’t access. Imagine the outlet malls of clothing when the homeless have no shoes. Imagine the veteran with a disability who can’t access the mental health resources to get his or her life back after the ills of war.

      While economic situations in America vary greatly geographically and culturally, we know that poverty impacts the future of our nation, as anybody who has paid attention knows that the poorer a child is in America, the more likely he or she is to be malnourished, misdiagnosed, and herded into over-crowded, under-funded, and poorly staffed educational institutions.⁴ A lot is revealed by the way a community and culture treat the most vulnerable: the child, the widow, the single parent, the person with disabilities, and the elderly person. From scripture, we recognize that Christ chose to engage and heal people in such situations. The God we worship chose to free the slaves, the Israelites, from bondage in Egypt. Jesus met and healed those on the margins of society. He ate with the sinner and brought hope to the broken and

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