Unity Christian School

Thirteen years. 2,340 days. 16,380 hours. Before graduating high school, a child will spend 16,380 hours at school. With the addition of extracurricular activities, a child may spend up to 30,000 hours inside the walls of their school before they graduate.

What can you do in 30,000 hours?

Unity Christian School views these hours as an opportunity to cultivate meaningful relationships with students by disciplining them through academics, athletics, and fine arts. For nearly twenty-five years, Unity Christian School has been investing in young leaders in the Rome community by providing a rigorous, college-preparatory education. This education focuses not only on developing critical thinking skills, but also wisdom and virtue through its emphasis on the four pillars of academics, fine arts, athletics, and spiritual formation. Unity invests in its students through Gospelsaturated, relational teaching, and a vertically-aligned curriculum, recognizing that God has a unique call on the life of each student.

While each child has a unique call for his or her life, God calls all of His children to serve others. To that end, Unity Christian School promotes service projects within classrooms, student extracurricular groups, and athletic teams. From yearly participation in Samaritan’s Purse ministries to the Salvation Army’s annual can drive, Unity provides opportunities for its students to connect with organizations in our community who are actively serving God’s children locally and globally.

At the annual State of the School event on Friday, February 25th, Unity launched a unique fundraiser called Feed the Need. In partnership with Birminghamarea consulting firm, The Champion Group, Unity

administration shared the goals of Feed the Need with its families. As Unity is committed to providing a highquality, college preparatory, Christ-centered education to families regardless of their financial means, annual fundraisers bridge the gap between tuition revenue and operational expenses while allowing Unity to invest in the future of the school. Typically, with fundraising events, a portion of the funds raised goes toward the event itself, such as banquet food, auction items, and a venue. What makes Feed the Need unique is that Unity will invest the typical fundraising overhead into serving those with food insecurity. On April 1, 2022, over 300 students at Unity Christian School will gather to pack 10,000 meals. These meals will then be distributed locally via Community Share Ministries and Action Ministries to meet the needs of our neighbors with food insecurity and internationally via Unity’s partnership with a mission organization in Eleuthera, Bahamas.

Not only will all Unity faculty and students serve through packing meals, but Unity’s secondary students will also have the opportunity to actually distribute the meals in Floyd and Polk County and on the summer mission trip to Eleuthera.

“Service is an integral part of Unity’s mission,” said Head of School Eric Munn. “Our mission statement specifically states that we partner with parents in preparing their children to impact the world for Jesus Christ by pursuing their God-given gifts in academics, leadership, and service. While we have traditionally invested a great deal of energy in service projects by class, this is the first time that we’ve incorporated the service mandate specifically into our fundraising efforts. By doing this, we hope to live out the Gospel message for our students, teaching them that all good gifts come from the Father and that He calls us to give of our time, talents, and finances to meet the needs of His children in the community in which He has planted us.”

To learn more about Unity’s impact in Northwest Georgia or to find out how you can be a part of Feed the Need, please contact Lane Rice, Director of Advancement, at lrice@unitychristianschool.org.