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LMS Students Extend Compassion to Haitians
Rivas-Hernandez, LMS food services; Luke Trimble,
grade 6; Dottie Weber, food services director;
Monica Steffy, grade 6; Stephanie Vazquez,
grade 6; and Linnae Budusky, grade 7.
Lancaster Mennonite School (LMS) students have partnered with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in responding to the needs of Haitians following the devastating earthquake that hit that country on January 12.
The high school Student Council, headed by Mollie Lehman, organized a Penny Power project where each class had a bucket for coin collection available during the lunch periods. Student Council junior Carissa Harnish helped get the project off the ground, “We have students from Haiti and we wanted to show that the Christian community can get involved and that everyone can help, including students.”
Middle school students at LMS’s Lancaster Campus also got involved in the relief efforts by collecting items for Relief Kits which MCC will package into sealed buckets and send to Haiti. Middle school students and staff collected over 500 health and hygiene items which include combs, fingernail clippers, toothpaste, tooth brushes, bandaids, sanitary napkins, body soap, laundry soap shampoo and towels.
Judi Mollenkof, principal of LMS’s Locust Grove and New Danville campuses, said that elementary and middle school students will be collecting Pennies for Haiti during the month of March. They had a kick-off for the project on Monday, February 15.
At the Kraybill campus, eighth graders are also learning they can make a difference in the world. They are making monetary contributions until the end of the school year. One of their teachers will match the total amount they contribute.
Lancaster Mennonite School is committed to providing a quality, Christ-centered education that fosters a global awareness, compassion, service and peacemaking. Mennonite Central Committee, a sister-agency to LMS, works around the world alongside local communities and churches in disaster relief, sustainable community development and justice and peace-building.
For more information about Mennonite Central Committee, call Larry Guengerich at (717) 738-0885 or visit MCC at http://mcc.org/. To learn more about Lancaster Mennonite School’s Haiti relief efforts, call Lancaster Campus’s Assistant Principal Dawn Landes at (717) 299-0436, ext. 702.
