Community Service
Stew and beans, goats and coats…community outreach and service is an essential part of the Trinity School of Texas and reflects a deep commitment to our mission that emphasizes “…to serve their community & exemplify Christian living.”
Encouraging each other to care for others in tangible and intangible ways has become part of the fabric of who we are as a school, and who our students become.
We define Community Service for our students as giving their efforts, willingly and freely, to an individual or organization that benefits from their help and/or improves the quality of life for the community. The significance of our program can be seen not only in the outward and visible impact that we have on those that are served by our outreach efforts, but perhaps even more strikingly in how students grow and are positively changed inwardly by their experiences.
The Outreach program involves students at every age in school-wide projects and in service areas appropriate to each grade level.
One of our Core Values is to “Build a community of service.” There are countless ways in which our students, faculty, staff, trustees, and families live out this core value every day. Perhaps more importantly, we are developing citizens who truly understand the joy and importance of serving their communities and making a difference in the world.
TST Upper School students photographing Veterans for the Veterans Day Program.
Outreach In Action
Community Outreach by Grades:
The Outreach program involves students at every age in school-wide projects and in service areas appropriate to each grade level.
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School-wide Outreach Projects
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Service within the TST community
Practicing the values of service and outreach within our own school provides an opportunity for our students to take pride in and help their school and its members.
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Community Outreach by Grades:
EC – Holiday stuffed animal collection (given to children of Elliot’s Project)
First – Sock drive (given to GSMC Project for Infants)
Second – “Warm things” drive (taken to Highway 80 homeless shelter by seventh graders)
Third – Makes Teddy Bears to be taken to local hospices, hospitals, etc. for children
Fourth – Collects food, towels, and blankets for animals at SPCA and raises money for LIMBS
Fifth – Sells ice cream sundaes and donates all proceeds to Community Partnership for Youth, which provides tutoring and enrichment classes to low-income students
Sixth – Visits Spring Meadows (retirement community) every month to sing to and visit with the residents in the mid-level facility
Seventh –
Eighth – Volunteers two days at the Monterey County Food Bank, prepares two I-HELP dinners at xx, and each 8th grader contributes an additional 15 hours of community service to his/her chosen organization.
Ninth –
Tenth –Spends three days working at the Stew Pot, preparing and serving meals
Eleventh –
Twelfth –
School-wide Outreach Projects
Canned Food Collection: We participate in the local food drive at Thanksgiving. TST has amassed well over 120,000 cans in a decade. This year we collected 10,911 cans with the help of the parish. That number is far higher than much larger public schools have provided. That, too, is a Trinity tradition.
Day of Caring: an all-school community service day on which all students, faculty and administrators join together to serve the Longview community. We also initiate unique advisory group projects and special projects whenever the need arises.
Spring Caring Cans: Coins and more are collected for TST’s sister school – Bon Samaritain in Haiti, the Haiti Goat Project, and International Health Emissaries
Food & Toy Drives: At Thanksgiving and Christmas there are all-School food box drives, toy collections and a Christmas ornament collection to benefit those in need in our region.
And over the years, Trinity’s community has responded to other needs in our region, country, and world: Hurricane Katrina, 911, and Tsunami Relief, to name just a recent few.
Service within Trinity’s community
ECU & First – grounds cleanup
Second – clothes pickup, compost crew
Third – lower grade recycling pick-up
Fourth – flag team
Fifth – serving as torch bearers assistants
Sixth – serving as acolytes & lay readers, clothes pick up
Seventh – serving as acolytes & lay readers bean bagging set up
Eighth – serving as acolytes & lay readers, special event set up, upper grade recycling
Ninth – serving as acolytes & lay readers
Tenth – serving as acolytes & lay readers
Eleventh –
Twelfth – serving as acolytes & lay readers