Grades 7-8 Service Intersession

Learning through service immersion - outside classroom walls.

Service Intersession is a unique week long immersion experience for our Upper School Grade 7-8 students. The program's goal is for students to engage with communities and service organizations from a place of mutual respect and appreciation for the people they serve. Students apply Biblical learning into their experiences, seeking to identify strengths within themselves and others, regardless of their current situations.

Accompanied and guided by their teachers, students grow as they start to understand how God's Word through Scripture and their own unique traits can help them make an impact serving in God’s world. They challenge and strengthen their Christian faith as they engage respectfully with different cultures and viewpoints.

Grade 7 Experience
Grade 8 Experience

Grade 7 Experience

As a beginning to their Intersession experience, the 7^th grade students serve the local Cincinnati Community. The Grade 7 faculty plans unique local courses for students to learn how they can make a kingdom impact. Within their small course groups, students participate in faculty-led learning, discussion and service activities around a theme like loving your neighbor, caring for creation, or putting your faith into action. They also learn about their unique giftedness for serving. Emphasis is placed on service from a place of respect and how to leverage their God-given strengths. All Grade 7 students participate in a Local Service Intersession experience, ranking their choices from the annual offerings.

Grade 8 Experience

Building on the Grade 7 Service Intersession curriculum (service from a place of respect and how to leverage their God-given strengths), all grade 8 students engage in and learn about different cultures, regardless of their course location which can be local, domestic, or international. The Grade 8 faculty plans six unique courses for students to learn how they can make a kingdom impact within our own community, as well as the world. Within their small course groups, students participate in faculty-led reflection activities and sharing to deepen their understanding and connections within these smaller peer groups. All Grade 8 students participate in a Service Intersession experience, ranking their choices from the six annual offerings.

3 Grade 7-8 students standing in front of service mosaic

Learn more by reading about a past Service Immersion experience and watching the video below!

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