CREATED TO BELONG
Lower School FAITH Week brings Romans 15:5–6 to life across campus
While Middle and Upper School students spent the week on a spiritual life retreat at SharpTop Cove, Lower School students took part in a faith-focused experience of their own on campus during F.A.I.T.H. Week.
Throughout the week, students stepped outside their usual classroom routines to spend time reflecting on faith and building relationships across grade levels. Mixed-age small groups brought JK through first grade students together and paired second through fourth graders in their own groups, each led by Lower School faculty and staff.
Fourth graders also visited Preschool classes in MPCS's Murray Academy, where students created a paper prayer chain together. Each student added a prayer request before linking the pieces into one chain, giving older and younger students a simple way to pray for, and with, one another.
Team-building activities gave students more opportunities to work together across campus and reinforced one of the week’s central ideas: each person is created uniquely, but those differences can come together in beautiful ways.
Earlier this year, Dr. Becky Knight used the art form of pointillism during chapel to illustrate that idea. Students revisited the concept through a collaborative mural based on Romans 15:5–6 and its call to “live in harmony.” Each student added colored stickers to a larger design, with individual pieces eventually forming one complete image. The finished mural served as a visual reminder that every student has a unique place in God’s Kingdom and within the Mount Pisgah community.
F.A.I.T.H. Week was made possible through the leadership of Lower School Bible teacher Nate Dawkins and Murray Academy Bible teacher Marie St. Romain, along with the assistance of many other faculty members, who helped guide students through the week’s spiritual life experiences and connections across grade levels.
The mural was revealed during the closing chapel, bringing F.A.I.T.H. Week full circle and giving students one final picture of what it looks like to live in harmony with one another.