ALL SCHOOL:

The Annual Wesleyan American Red Cross Blood Drive is just around the corner and to encourage everyone to consider signing up.
 
The drive this year will be February 11th from 8am to 1 pm.  Students who are 17+ years old (or 16 with a Parental Consent Form), in good health, and meet the new student height/weight guidelines are eligible to give blood.  Some of the mission trip locations from last year have deferrals:  Brazil, Dominican Republic, and Guatemala. Everyone will need to bring a photo id.  All students who participate will be entered in a drawing for several gift cards.
 
To make an appointment:
1. Go to the American Red Cross website: https://www.givelife.org
2. In Step 1, Sponsor Code = weslsch
3. Follow the directions in the remaining steps in order to choose your appointment time and provide some basic information
 
If you have any questions, please contact Pam Buckley or Jennifer LaValle, this year’s co-chairs of the Blood Drive.

HIGH SCHOOL:

Jeans for Teens – For one week only, Feb. 1st – 8th, Serve-His League will be collecting gently used jeans for homeless teens through Aéropostale Clothing Store. Aéropostale will send the first 100,000 pairs of jeans to support homeless teens in Haiti and will match those donations with a new pair of jeans. That is a total of 200,000 jeans for Haiti! Please take some time this week to go through your closet and drawers for any jeans you have outgrown or no longer need and bring them to school. Donations can be dropped off outside Mrs. Pack’s office, W161. Again, the last day to bring in donations is Monday, Feb. 8th. Thank you Jenai Washington (11th) for bringing this service opportunity to Wesleyan School! For more information about the Teens for Jeans drive, please visit http://www.dosomething.org/teensforjeans/home.

Mission trip fundraiser — Students are invited to participate in the 5th annual Valentine’s Day Cake Bake, February 11th and 12th to help raise money for Wesleyan Missions.  Last year we raised $1,180 for missions with only 23 cake entries. This year we are hoping to raise even more money for missions, but we are going to need everyone’s help to reach our goal. Male students and faculty are asked to bake and decorate a cake for a silent auction February 11th during lunch. All money raised will be donated to support the Wesleyan mission trip program. Cake entries should be brought outside Dubose Cafeteria Thursday morning February 11th before school begins at 8:00 a.m. Silent Auction Winners will be posted the afternoon of the 11th on the Serve-His League bulletin board (2nd floor of Cleghorn), and all cakes must be paid in full Friday morning, February 12th in order to claim your cake. Please contact Mrs. Pack if you have any questions. 

Trinity House – The following students and faculty chaperones made a visit to Trinity House on Friday, January 29th: Christyn Williams (12th), Audrey Anderson, Natalie Robinson (10th), Jane Sutcliff, Kelly Quigley (9th), Ms. Theresa Mays (HS Visual Arts), Mrs. Sabrina Schulze (HS College Counseling Admin. Asst.) and Mrs. Julie Pack (HS Serve-His League Coordinator & Bible). Trinity House is a residential rehabilitative program for homeless men in substance abuse recovery.  With each visit to Trinity House, students prepare and bring a meal to share with the men as well as share their stories with one another. For more information about Trinity House, please contact Mrs. Pack or go to their website http://tcmatlanta.org.  Serve-His League will be making another visit to Trinity House Monday, February 15th. Students interested in volunteering are asked to sign-up on the Serve-His League bulletin board and return their signed permission slip to Mrs. Pack as soon as possible. There are only 12 spots available, so don’t delay. Sign-up today! 

Totes-2-Tots — Serve-His League would like to thank everyone who donated a gently used backpack, duffle bag, or other miscellaneous tote to Totes-2Tots January 11th – 15rd to help foster care children right here in Georgia. The Georgia Cancer Specialists and Atlanta Oncology Associates, who started this collection drive 8 years ago, were thrilled with our donations! For more information about Totes-2-Tots, please go to the Georgia Cancer Specialists website at http://www.gacancer.com/news/news-detailed.php?NewsID=290

MIDDLE SCHOOL: 

MS Serve-His League requests your support for the annual Souper Bowl of Caring Food Drive to benefit Norcross Food Co-Op, North Fulton Community Charities, and Community Action Center. Please bring in canned or packaged food to Room 150W (Mrs. Schofield’s room) or Room 280W (Ms. Wanders’ room). The food drive begins Tuesday, January 18 and ends on Friday, February 5. Your contributions will help restock the food pantries in our community. If you have questions, please see Mrs. Schofield or Ms. Wanders. Thank you!

MS Serve-His League will visit Tapestry House in Roswell on Thursday, Feb. 11. We will make Valentine’s cards with the residents who are senior citizens. Please join us for an afternoon of fun. Permission forms are available from Ms. Wanders in Room 280W and Mrs. Schofield in Room 150W.

7th and 8th grade students are invited to participate in Middle School Study Sessions on the 1st the 3rd Wednesdays of the month in Dubose Dining Hall from 8:00 – 8:45 a.m. A small group of 6 Serve-His League high school students are willing to give of their time and talents by providing extra help with homework and/or studying and preparing for upcoming middle school tests and quizzes in all subject areas. Interested students need to sign-up on their grade chair’s door. The first Middle School Study Session will be Wednesday, February 17th.

Middle School Serve-His League Visits Sheltering Arms Daycare: The following students accompanied Mrs. Schofield and Ms. Wanders to Sheltering Arms Daycare in Duluth on January 20: Rebekah Eller, Ellie Bradach, Emily Johnson, Lucy Schoenrock, Rachel Robinson, Sydney Stone, Caroline Robertson, Sara McPherson, Jack Widner, and Nicole Fasciana. Our students enjoyed playing with the children at the daycare. What a wonderful way to spend time serving others!


LOWER SCHOOL: 

Second grade service project:  This marks the third year Wesleyan’s Second Grade Students have participated in the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Pennies for Patients program, whose goal is to raise funds to help support research for leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, and other blood related cancers. Our students presented Ms. Heather Evans from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society with a check for $932 during the Lower School Chapel Service on November 11th.   Since 1994, millions of dollars have been raised in pennies and other spare change by more than 10 million elementary, middle and high school students throughout the country.  Wesleyan Second Graders have contributed more than $3500 in their three years of participation.