Service Apprenticeship Program
"Whatever you do to the least among you, you do unto me" (Matthew 25:40)
THE PURPOSE OF THE NLCA COMMUNITY SERVICE APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM IS:
We believe service to others is at the very heart of the gospel. Our mission at New Life Christian Academy is to build students of faith and wisdom so as to inspire them to serve others. Beginning in the 2007-08 school year, we instituted a Christian Service Internship program, in which students are asked to give service hours each year to charitable agencies around the greater San Antonio area. In that year alone, New Life Christian Academy students gave over 10,000 hours of volunteer service to these agencies. This program teaches our students how to deal with the complexities of today’s world, by actively participating in their school and community. The community service requirement allows students to enrich their learning through recognition of the needs of their school, community and the youth of our community.
The NLCA Community Service Apprenticeship Program is coordinated by a full time teacher, who establishes relationships with these charities and monitors the success of the program.
WHAT IS THE VALUE OF COMMUNITY SERVICE?
Community Service helps students:
- Acquire life skills
- Understand their responsibilities as citizens in the community
- Improve their self-esteem
- Take and accept new challenges
- Community Service provides students with:
- Opportunities for higher level thinking
- Opportunities to assume responsibility
- The positive experience of helping others
- A chance to explore potential careers
- An experience to enrich their learning
- An opportunity to give back to the community
OVERVIEW OF THE PROGRAM
Apprentices work during the summer in the NLCA Youth Development Camp with students’ ages 3 to 11. Activities include, but are not limited to, readings and doing activities with the students, assisting the site supervisor during field trips, assisting in sporting events, tutoring students, setting up and breaking down of the camp props.