Helping our neighbors
Several times a year we collect school supplies and snacks for teachers and children. We also encourage our church family to simply pray for the children and staff at Baileywick.
Teacher and Staff Appreciation for Baileywick Elementary School
On Wednesday, May 6, Soapstone will partner with the administration at Baileywick Elementary School to provide some “end of the school year motivation”! For all school staff, those last weeks between Spring Break and the Last Day of School seem to move very slowly! We are helping by providing a little appreciation in the form of assorted muffins and goody bags full of fun supplies to help those last weeks more colorful. The muffins are being purchased through the Missions Committee budgeted funds for Baileywick. We are hoping you will help by donating items for the goody bags. Some suggested items include: colorful packs of gum, mints, chocolate candy, Post-It notes, gel pens, Sharpie markers, snack bars, or $10 gift cards. A collection bin marked Soapstone will be in the Norwood Foyer beginning Sunday, April 19 – Sunday May 3. Thank you in advance for your help with this project.
Soapstone support of Baileywick Elementary School began over 10 years ago when then Bishop, Hope Morgan Ward, started “Congregations for Children” (C4C), a statewide initiative for the United Methodist Church to help children in public schools who were living in poverty and the teachers and staff who work with them.
Soapstone chose Baileywick because of its proximity to our church. The school is located on Baileywick Road. This is not a neighborhood that you would drive through and think “living in poverty,” but a large part of their student population is bused to attend Baileywick from a neighborhood behind North Hills, where economic challenges are a fact of life. Over the years, Soapstone has partnered with and contributed to Baileywick in many ways.
We have collected and donated school supplies, snacks, hygiene supplies for students, classroom supplies for teachers to use in their classrooms (to ease their out-of-pocket expenses for the things that are not supplied by Wake Co. Public Schools), that enhance indoor and outdoor learning, and Food Lion and Walmart gift cards to distribute as they learn of families in need.