| Over the last few years, America’s public schools have become battlegrounds.
Fights over funding, parents clashing over policy, and school board screaming matches have made headline news across the country.
Who’s fault is it for this, or that? Is it that group’s? This person’s? That party’s?
No matter who someone would say, no one (I hope) would ever say: the kids are to blame.
Which is why Mosaic’s involvement in local public schools has been a constant for many years, because what the church will never touch, it can never transform.
Many want to complain about our schools; fewer want to roll up their sleeves and begin to make a tangible, transformative difference at the root level: by serving individual children and teachers.
Over many years, we have sowed countless mentors into the schools nearest to our campuses, have provided countless appreciation breakfasts, brunches and lunches for teachers and staff, provided Christmas for many, many families who may have otherwise not been able to, and we provide food for nearly 100 children every week.
We have prayer walked, packed shoe boxes with gifts and been the RRISD Partner of the Year, in particular for Live Oak Elementary, many times. And of course, back in 2021, were able to gift $10,000 in gift cards for teachers at Deerpark Middle School whose classrooms were damaged by Winter Storm Uri.
Why does all of this matter? Isaiah 58 talks about what the people of God can be, if they will be: repairers of the breach. That means we, whenever possible, run to a broken place and not away from it.
We don’t want to curse the darkness we feel we may see around us, but speak and sow life and light.
And you can help be a part of repairing that breach, one child at a time, and here’s how: |
