The bulletin board in the hallway of the Lower School is full of "home run" baseballs that mark each book students completed during the summer months. SFCS 1st Grade students Brock Holder and Victoria Cudd are two of the many students who participated in the summer reading challenge.

The SFCS Lower School Chapel Missions project has partnered with the Greenville Shriner's Hospital for Children for the 2010/2011 school year. Students of Karen Weathers are collecting needed items requested by the hospital in weekly held chapel services. Each month will feature new items to be donated. Throughout August and September, the following items are being collected:

• Crossword puzzles
• Search & Find Books
• Regular playing cards
• Uno games
• Phase 10 games
• Go Fish playing cards
• Coloring Books & Crayons
• Color by Number activities

In just ONE service, SFCS Lower School children have brought in:
46 coloring books, 33 puzzle books, 88 boxes of crayons and 25 decks of playing cards.

Each year the Shriner's Hospitals for Children provides care for thousands of kids with orthopedic conditions, burns, spinal cord injuries and cleft lip/palate needs in a family-centered environment. In many cases, treatment is received regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Let’s Finish The Boosterthon Race With 100% Pledge Collection!

Hundreds of Shannon Forest Christian School (SFCS) students skipped, danced and raced their way around the 2010 Boosterthon Fun Run track on Thursday, August 26, to raise funds for technology in the classroom. The overcast weather was perfect, the cheering crowds were enthusiastic, our school spirit was overwhelming and the students in PK3 through 5th Grade ran their hearts out towards achieving their goal.

Students received pledges from FIVE countries including the USA, Germany, South Africa, Mexico and Puerto Rico and 30 states! Over 209 of our Lower School runners received pledges!

NOW it's time to finish the race with tenacity! EVERY STUDENT who participated should be bringing home a red envelope TODAY!

ALL pledges are due no later than Thursday, September 2. You may send in your pledges via the following ways:

• Deliver directly to the runner you supported.
• Deliver to the Lower School Office.
• Mail to Shannon Forest Christian School: 829 Garlington Road, Greenville, SC 29615 USA

(Please include the runner's name and grade in the memo notation area of your check.)

Participants winning prizes will receive them on Thursday, September 2.

Thank you to everyone who attended this great event to cheer on our students, to those who supported them through pledging and to all of you who continue to support SFCS!

LET'S COLLECT 100% OF ALL PLEDGES!!!