KIDS HOPE USA is a national organization that recruits and provides mentors for at-risk elementary school students. St. Luke’s members are involved in two ways. First, our members volunteer to serve as Mentors to students at Briarmeadow Charter School and Sutton Elementary School (Houston Independent School District). Mentors meet with their student for one hour per week during regular school hours. This one-to-one relationship improves academic skills and often provides the student with a meaningful, adult role model.
Some of our members serve as a Prayer Partners. A Prayer Partner commits to praying for an assigned mentor-child team, and typically prays for the child’s academic success and growth of the mentor-student relationship. Finally, some members may choose to be on the Teacher/Staff Encouragement Team. This group prepares small treats and baked goodies for the teachers and staff of each school.
St. Luke’s KHUSA Directors, Karen McCarver and Marci Pampe help mentors and students arrange their schedules in order to nurture the relationships.
Karen and Marci are currently recruiting St. Luke's members to serve as KHUSA mentors, prayer partners and teacher/staff encouragers for the 2010-2011 school year at Briarmeadow and Sutton. If you would like to participate in this ministry in any way, please contact
Karen at 713-402-5152 or
Marci at 713-357-4466.
Learn more about
Briarmeadow Charter School and Sutton Elementary School by going to the
HISD web site below, Type "Briarmeadow Charter School" under school information and click "submit". When page appears click "site directory".
Story of the Week
"I was saddened when Rachel, my KIDS HOPE USA child, told me her family would be moving. We had grown very close during the last 18 months.
Weeks later, I asked Rachel when she would be moving.
'I told my dad,' she said, 'that we could not move until the end of the year because I had to see you on Mondays.' "
--From a KHUSA Mentor
St. Luke’s trains and matches caring mentors with students in grades K-5 at Briarmeadow Charter School and Sutton Elementary School in HISD. Twenty-four at-risk students have already been referred by their teacher. If you can donate one hour a week to mentor one child, contact the KIDS HOPE USA office at 713-402-5152 (Karen) or 713-357-4466 (Marci).
Our Mission: KIDS HOPE USA builds caring relationships…one child, one hour, one church, one school.
