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Church says it provided 700 backpacks and mentoring to a local elementary school for 14 years
Summary
A church representative told a public meeting that the congregation answered a 2012 request for 700 backpacks and has run mentoring and back-to-school programs ever since, saying the effort now reaches about half the school’s students.
A church representative, identified in the record as a public commenter, said the congregation began working with a nearby elementary school in 2012 after answering a request for 700 backpacks filled with school supplies and offering to hold a back-to-school event.
The commenter said the partnership focuses on McCorder Elementary (the school’s name appears with inconsistent spellings in the record) and is carried out in connection with a program called Academy 4. "We have a one-on-one mentoring program for every fourth grader where we're really just speaking leadership skills and confidence into their lives," the commenter said.
The commenter described a follow-up program, "Leaders 5," in which fifth-graders put lessons into practice by mentoring first-graders. According to the speaker, those programs combined "are impacting half of the student body" at the school. The representative added that, 14 years into the partnership, "McCorder Elementary is not just a place we serve, it's family."
The remarks were made during the public comment portion of the meeting. The transcript records the speaker’s description of activities and claimed impacts but does not record any formal action, vote or staff response to the remarks in the provided segments.
