Spiritual Life

Teams of students work with an organization called New York City Relief, which is a mobile soup kitchen, serving poor areas in New York City. After preparing the soup and gathering the supplies, students spend a day on the streets distributing food and clothing, praying with people who come to the bus for help and sharing the gospel with those they encounter during the day. This eye-opening experience allows students a glimpse into the real needs of people right here in their own back yards. Students step out of their comfort zones to meet specific needs and talk individually to people with whom they would not normally interact.

At the beginning of the school year, now that students have just become upperclassmen, a retreat is planned. This retreat helps them think more seriously about their Christian faith and the eternal impact they are having on those around them. Service to others is shallow and eternally meaningless if it does not overflow from a heart that truly loves God. Students are presented with individual and group physical challenges. They must overcome obstacles, face fears, problem-solve collectively, rely on other’s strengths, recognize their own weaknesses, and discover the unique contributions each one makes to the group to achieve success. Group discussion and personal reflection time allow students to apply concepts they have learned on the retreat to school and personal situations at home.

Ministry culminates with a week long mission trip to the Dominican Republic for the seniors. At monthly training and prayer meetings, students prepare to meet the physical and spiritual needs of people from all walks of life in the DR. TCS seniors distribute goods to a Haitian sugarcane village and minister to the needs of sick kids in a children’s hospital. Puppets, skits, and songs are combined to produce a program to share God’s love with school children. Seniors learn
Spanish praise songs and give personal testimonies of God’s grace to minister to adults in the open air. Money is raised in the United States by the seniors above the cost of the trip to support Dominican pastors, missionaries, schools and a widow, all of whom Timothy Christian School has maintained a relationship with for many years.  The whole school gets involved with the Dominican Republic trip by collecting school and medical supplies, personal hygiene items, clothes, shoes, and toys for the seniors to distribute while they are in the DR. Hundreds of people have been ministered to and blessed by what God has allowed TCS to do in the Dominican Republic for the last 19 years.

Besides these specific grade level ministries, many other opportunities for service abound at TCS. Student led prayer meetings, evangelism outreaches, Bible studies, and mission trips are conducted throughout the year as student leaders emerge with a desire to see these ministries carried out. Tutoring and mentoring of middle school students by high school students also occurs. Our active student ambassador program and student council provide experiences for students to meet the needs of the student body and larger TCS family, as well as promote the school to the surrounding community. We view each of these ministries and opportunities for growth in leadership as an integral part of developing our students to be confident, competent, caring, and compassionate men and women for Jesus Christ.