Hall of Heroes

Who is your hero?  We all need heroes.  

 At NCS, we want our students to learn more about Christian heroes, role models whose lives challenge us to live for the Lord.  A. W. Tozer wrote, “Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aid to the life of faith may be Christian biographies.”  To encourage our students to choose Christian heroes to emulate, our sixth grade students presented the Hall of Heroes on Dec. 17.

During the second nine weeks, our 6^th grade students studied “On Mission with God,” an adaptation of the Bible study by Avery T. Willis. This study helps preteens learn how God called people in the Bible to serve Him. By studying how God calls, prepares, sends, guides and uses people to carry out His mission, students were challenged to serve God with their lives too. Along with this study, the 6th graders read a Christian biography. These biographies were about the lives of great missionaries, evangelists, scientists, authors, and others who gave their lives in service to God. After reading about a Christian hero, the students wrote a book report as part of their reading classes.

After learning about a being on mission with God and about a Christian hero, the students chose at least two creative ways to share what they had learned about their Christian hero.  Some students dressed as their hero or as someone from the people group their hero served. Some students served food from or drew maps of their hero’s country. Others made time lines of key events in their hero’s lives or even shadow boxes of their hero. The 6th graders used the items on Tues., Dec. 17, to share about their hero with the other elementary students. Displays were set up in the Trojan Hall gym, and the 6th graders were visited by students who listened as they told about the Christian heroes they had studied. We hope our Hall of Heroes projects inspired some of our students to become Christian heroes too!