Required Community Service for Middle/Upper School Students

Serving others is an important part of the HHCA mission and helps advance our vision To Know Christ and Make Him Known. When we help those in need and contribute to our community, it not only provides valuable experience and multiplied blessings, but it also fulfills what we are called by scripture to do. As a school community built on the teaching of Jesus, it is imperative that we follow his model of reaching out to those around us to demonstrate his love by serving others.

To help teach students the value of following Jesus’ model of serving others, and to help them see how they can have an impact for the glory of God, HHCA requires that all Middle and High School students complete a minimum number of community service hours to move on to their next academic year.  

You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.

- Galatians 5:13

• Middle school students must complete 10 hours of community service. 
• Upper school students must complete 20 hours of community service.
• A minimum of half of these hours must be completed off campus, not for the benefit of HHCA.
• Community service hours cannot be completed working for a for-profit business or if you are paid by a non-profit group.
• Community service hours cannot be given if they are completed as part of a required class assignment. Athletic and artistic performances (team managers, theater tech and performance, etc) do not qualify as community service.
• Students applying for their town’s respective Mayor’s Community Service awards will need to apply personally to be eligible to receive it. Mayor’s Service Award qualifiers can ask the school to sign off on any hours that have been approved in Mobile Serve.
• Students participating in a mission/service trip will be given a maximum of 8 hours per day unless their active working hours go beyond the 8-hour maximum.

Students are required to track hours through the MobileServe app. Reach out to reach out to a Spiritual Life Mentor or  Mr. Jason Suddeth, Director of Spiritual Life, with any questions about community service or the tracking app.
 

Over the past several years, HHCA Middle and Upper School students have averaged over 8,000 hours of community service per year!