For the 11th consecutive year, Moorestown Friends School students, faculty and parents will perform community service work together in observance of the national Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Monday, January 17. There is no school that day, but the school community comes together to celebrate Dr. King through service from 10 a.m. to Noon.
Volunteers of all ages will gather at 10 a.m. at the school. They will assemble in the Moorestown Friends Meeting House for a Quaker Meeting for Worship in honor of Dr. King, coordinated by student members of the Upper School MLK, Jr. Club and the Upper School Service Committee, before beginning work on the projects at activity centers on campus. Each activity has student and parent coordinators.
In previous years, over 200 students, faculty and parent volunteers have prepared dozens of casseroles, pans of brownies and decorated cookies, and assembled hundreds of health kits, birthday boxes and birthday cards.
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In addition, some MFS families elect to spend the day on community service work organized through their own houses of worship and other organizations.
Service learning is a longstanding part of the curriculum at MFS. It is an MFS graduation requirement to complete 50 hours of community service during the high school years. Community service is taught through every level of instruction, beginning with three-year-olds, who bring in canned goods for holiday meals, through the Upper School, which has an active ongoing program of community service including tutoring students, serving meals to the homeless and providing companionship for senior citizens.
