It’s Time for Us to DO Something!

The Big Valley Christian School Do-A-Thon was an idea birthed out of necessity. During the 2020-2021 school year, we had to come up with a way to do just about everything differently, and how we approached fundraising was no different.

Each year, we have a preschool ride-a-thon and an elementary jog-a-thon. But as we began planning for our fall 2020 fundraising event we decided to change things up. So we began brainstorming ways in which we could make a better connection to our mission. Also, our Chapel theme for the year was to be Doers of the Word. And so the Do-A-Thon was created! We get to live out our mission to nurture and equip students to IMPACT the world for Christ through serving our community. 

We saw a great chance to expand our reach beyond preschool and elementary and create a school-wide opportunity to focus on impacting our community through individual or group service projects.  Through this 2+ week time, all BVCS students, staff, and parents can serve in our community while raising money for BVCS.  However, raising funds takes a back seat to having our community serve others. 

Here’s how it works:

• Every BVCS student (family and staff) is encouraged to impact our community by serving others.

• They ask their friends and family to sponsor their service project.

Check out these awesome projects:

CLASS PROJECTS

• Preschool: Miss Boren- Making thank you cards and sending them to Modesto Police Department

• Preschool: Miss Huckabay- Cards for a convalescent hospital and have parents bring socks in to donate to them.

• TK: Encouraging art for teachers

• Kindergarten: Mrs. Oehrke- Cards for Comfort Kits and Operation Care and Comfort which 

• provides support to Veterans in California. 

• Kindergarten: Mrs. Mori- Operation Christmas Child

• Kindergarten: Ms. Young- Cards for Veterans' Day

• 1st Grade:  Making cards for local nursing home residents

• 2nd Grade:  Penny war between the classes for Oliviana's Closet

• 3rd Grade: Comfort Kits

• 5th Grade: Blessing nurses at Kaiser (Boren) and Memorial (Kennedy) with a Tasty Tuesday and notes and cards of encouragement and appreciation on Tuesday, November 23 at 3:00 pm

• 6th Grade: Pop-up cards for elderly at Bethany Home in Ripon

• JH: Operation Christmas Child

• Sophomores: Book drive for Crossroads Elementary School

• Mrs. Mott's Entrepreneur's Class is collecting items for The Perfect Thanksgiving Meal. They will be packing them up on Wednesday 11/17 so they can be delivered to the Modesto Gospel Mission on 11/18. They have enough for 19 meals so far!

INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS

• Helping an older lady clean her house and driving a single mom to church every Sunday.

• Cooking/Cleaning/Raking Leaves

• Cat watching

This year’s Do-A-Thon is from November 1 - November 18.  If you want to support the school’s efforts, you can use your credit/debit card and text LIONS to 71760, then click the link, then choose the amount to donate and include “BVCS” for name and teacher.

• Text LIONS to 71760

• Click the link

• Choose the amount to donate and include the person’s name you are sponsoring

• Or print a sponsor form. Just click on the form link and send it in to our school office with your check or cash. In order for the school to send a bill to a sponsor, a sponsor must pledge a minimum of $15.00 and include the billing address.   In order for a pledge to count towards prizes, it must be at least $5.00.

It’s an incredible blessing to nurture and equip students, families, and staff to impact the world for Jesus Christ!