Service Programs
There are many opportunities for student service at St. Anthony of Padua School.
Many of our students are altar servers offering their time to the Parish on the weekends. We also call upon altar servers at school masses that take place during the year.
In addition to asking our students to participate in "tag" days by bringing a non-perishable item of food, students help to organize the donations at St. Anthony's Food Pantry.
Students may also serve by assistance at lunchtime with younger students, working to sell ice cream at lunchtime, serving as student council respresentatives, tutoring students in the afterschool program, and working in the Afterschool Literacy Program.
We ask our Middle School students, Grades 5-8, to perform 25 hours of service during the first half of the school year. They assist in a variety of programs that serve the school, the parish and/or the community. Beginning in the summer and continuing throughout the year many of these students readily accumulate the suggested 50 hours of service which awards them a pin at the end of the year Honors Assembly.
The National Conference of Catholic Bishops' document, "To Teach As Jesus Did" in the sections on service recognize "it is appropriate that a parish increasingly turn its attention to the task of preparing its members, young and old, for service within and beyond the Christian community." St. Anthony's strives to encourage our students at all times to the commitment we make as Christians to serve one another.
Watch this part of the website for information about student service projects.
