ASCENSION MOVES CLASSROOM TO NATURE WITH TRIP TO LIVING RIVER

Ascension Leadership Academy students and staff took a trip to Living River in central Alabama for an educational and spiritual fellowship day in nature.

Living River, set on the Cahaba River near Montevallo, is a camp and conference destination that was built by Sheppards and Lapsley to be large enough to hold the Presbytery’s growing and successful youth camping program and spiritual retreats for the Presbytery as a whole.

Presbyterian Home for Children CEO Doug Marshall thanked Living River staff for inviting Ascension to bring their classroom into God’s creation on the Cahaba River. “We are grateful to experience the goodness of God here,” Marshall said.

Director of Education Linda Harris said the trip was an extension of their school lessons taught while canoeing and hiking amid the beauty of Living River. “This was an enriched education experience that comes with life lessons about God’s nature and how to protect it and be safe in it,” Harris said. Lessons included environmental discussions with the Cahaba River Society.

Living River Director Jenny Thagard said they love their partnership with the Home. “We are thrilled to welcome Ascension students to experience God’s creation and supplement their curriculum with what we do here in nature,” Thagard said.