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Chapel offerings will help fight hunger
Grace students' chapel offerings during the 2011-2012 school year will be going to support projects and organizations that help to feed hungry people. Offerings collected during chapel services in the first part of the school year (August through Thanksgiving) will go to the Greater Chicago Food Depository and to the Foods Resource Bank. Read more.
The Greater Chicago Food Depository distributes donated and purchased food through a network of 650 pantries, soup kitchens and shelters, serving 678,000 adults and children in Cook County every year. We hope that families will volunteer at the Food Depository as well as donate money. Visit their web site for more information
Grace Church and School support a Foods Resource Bank project in cooperation with St. Paul Lutheran Church in Forrest, Illinois. The farmers in Forrest provide the land and the labor. Partner congregations in urban areas, including Grace Church and School, pay for seed and fertilizer. The money from the sale of the crop supports the work of the Foods Resource Bank in promoting food security in vulnerable communities around the world. Grace families are invited to the annual Harvest Festival in Forrest on October 9, which includes a worship service, a meal, combine rides, hay rides, grain harvesting, and other children's activities. (See photos from last year's Harvest Festival on Flickr.)
Pictured above, Stacy Sorg, Mary Berendt, Julia Nelson
New teachers in 2nd and 3rd grade, JK, and art
Four new teachers have joined the Grace School staff for the 2011-2012 school year.
Ms. Stacy Sorg is the new second grade teacher. She holds a master’s degree in elementary education from Northeastern Illinois University and recently served as an interim fourth grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary School in Oak Park.
Ms. Mary Berendt will be teaching third grade. She taught grades three and four for thirteen years at St. Frances Xavier School in Chicago. She has an undergraduate degree in elementary education from Elmhurst College and a master’s in special education from Benedictine University.
Benjamin Chandler, Grace’s junior kindergarten and art teacher, is on sabbatical this year, teaching at the Lutheran Academy in Martin, Slovakia. Ms. Julia Nelson is taking his place as part of the junior kindergarten teaching team; she holds a master’s in education from National-Louis University. Local artist and teacher Stephanie Rose Bird will be teaching art; she has taught adults and children in a variety of settings, including at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
