This is a sample list of things that may be done to bless and serve at school.
Often blessing can happen incidentally. As you drop your children at school or pick them up at the end of the day, think about ways that you can make a difference and make the most of every opportunity, no matter how small. As you cross paths with teachers, your child’s principal and even the crossing guard on the way home, make an effort to be polite, sincere, and caring. You never know what one act of kindness can do!
1. Pray
• For the Lord of the harvest to raise up workers for the harvest
• For favour, open doors, and success for PEACE Ontario in your school
• Prayer walk your school campus weekly
• For unity among pastors and the Church of our community/city
2. Bless and serve the school
• Ask the principal what are the needs of the school/teachers and how we can help. This has been the single most important means of establishing trust, building influence, being an asset because it involves actually listening and starting with the needs of the school instead of our own needs/goals
• Volunteer at school events—fun fair, fitness meet, movie night, fundraisers, etc
• Become a School Council member
• Run as a school board trustee
3. Bless and serve the teachers
• Pray for teachers by name. Pray for their classrooms
• As you walk the campus, thank, bless and encourage teachers
• When meeting a teacher bless with a coffee/tea, muffins, etc.
• Teach your children to be a blessing to the teacher, and others
• Most schools pass out a classroom wish list of specific supplies desired by each teacher for the school year. Find some you can complete
• Group of parents – throw an end of the quarter Thank-you ice cream social for teachers/staff
4. Bless and serve the students
• Pray for students by name
• Drop off a treat for all students in the class
• Tutor
• Volunteer for an afterschool activities/club—a sport, chess, science, technology, robotics, health and wellness, etc
• Learn from the principal what the needs of low income students are and meet them
• Read in classrooms