Tuesday January 31st marked 100 days of school for the 300 students attending Hinsdale Adventist Academy. To celebrate the students being 100 days smarter, classes from Preschool-12 were each offered $100 to raise 100 more in 100 hours! Proceeds will benefit the Senior’s upcoming mission trip to St. Croix. Twenty students will travel there during Spring break to help renovate school buildings, run programs for orphans and deliver much needed school supplies.
Students have already started devising creative ways to invest the money. Third graders each received $5. Some plan to buy balloons or toys to resell; others are planning a bake sale. To see their teacher issuing the challenge check out this link on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VJlw3yarJ0&list=UUzFZOK125FXRkbjSyXPCAoA&index=1&feature=plcp.
Seventh graders pooled their money to buy wrist bands stating, “Banding 2gether 4 Mission”. These will be resold for a profit. Miss Datil’s First Grade class is producing beautiful 20 month calendars illustrated by each student, to be sold as Valentine’s gifts for $10 each. “I really didn’t feel motivated to get into this project to begin with. But I shot up a prayer, and got the inspiration to do the calendar. My kids are so excited and I am so pleased with their work. I really am glad that we are involved.”
Business teacher, Mr. Jerry Newsom, was inspired from the beginning. “I thought this was a good opportunity to give them a real life problem-solving scenario that required a tight deadline. Five groups are each creating a St. Croix promo video that will go live on Friday. They have to include social media and YouTube and work on getting 1000 hits before Tuesday. The videos will promote the mission trip and give viewers an opportunity to join us in helping the people of St. Croix by sending donations to HAA.” To help the high school get their 1000 hits, be sure to check out Hinsdale Adventist Academy’s Facebook page which can be found from HAA’s website – www.haa.org.
Dr. George Babcock, the Administrative Principal at HAA stated, “Our annual Senior mission trip is the culmination of a student’s experience with us at HAA and is something that makes our school special. As Christians, we know how serving others in a meaningful way like this can be life-altering – for the better! It is my hope that getting our students to St. Croix will inspire them to be a life-long blessing to their community and ultimately to our world.”
Hinsdale Adventist Academy is a Preschool-12 Seventh-day Adventist Christian school located at 631 E Hickory Street in Hinsdale, Illinois. For further information go to www.haa.org or call 630.323.9211. If you would like to be a part of making this mission trip a success, you can make a tax deductible donation by sending a check written to Hinsdale Adventist Academy with ‘Senior Mission Trip’ in the memo line.