New American students who receive scholarships from CFNA and the Lutheran Foundation of St. Louis are serving others with CFNA, with their schools, their churches, and their families. These students recognize that serving others is one way they can thank and repay the people and organizations who have helped support their scholarships.

Beginning last year, CFNA asked its 6th through 12th grade students to provide some service directly to CFNA. For those of you who have participated in the spring Walk-A-Thon or attended the fall Trivia Night, you have seen scholarship students helping or have benefited from their behind-the-scenes work in setting up those events. Nine scholarship students helped out with the 2016 Trivia event.

Two Lutheran High School South students have provided support for CFNA’s Heart to Heart Sisters program, registering participants and taking care of the children so their mothers can participate in the luncheon and Bible study. Two Lutheran North students volunteer regularly for the After-School Tutoring program at the Peace Center.

High school students also do service projects through their churches and youth groups; one LHSS student helps with the nursery and tutoring at her church and several have gone on mission trips with their church youth groups.

Finally, some of the younger students report that they and their families routinely donate clothes or money to help disadvantaged people, help neighbors with chores, and even help their parents lead Bible studies for other New American families.

Thus far, CFNA has not fully funded the scholarship program for 2016-17. We hope that you will consider a gift, which will be matched dollar-for-dollar by the Lutheran Foundation of St. Louis, to assure that these students can continue to benefit from attending Lutheran schools.

By Judith Meyer (Timothy Lutheran Church)

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