Service
At Lipscomb Academy, students are prepared to deal with relevant issues and topics in society by drawing on the themes of hope, love and reconciliation in God’s narrative.
Your student’s awareness of their community and how their gifts can benefit that community each year of high school are expanded in our service-learning program, culminating in a year-long senior capstone service-learning project. These concepts are already prevalent for your child long before high school with our Love in Action and Missions and Ministry programs in the elementary school, helping your child to identify the gifts God has blessed them with in order to use those gifts as they serve in God’s Kingdom.
Love In Action
This lower school program equips your child by teaching them about communities that are often overlooked by society. They then encounter those groups of people — such as immigrants, veterans, the elderly or those with disabilities — through interactions with guest speakers in the classroom. With a focus on how Jesus loved people, the program prepares students to engage with similar groups throughout their lives with an awareness that all people are created in the image of God.
Service Learning
Service learning is experiential learning that enriches your child’s academic experience by guiding them to use course material to serve others, a mutually beneficial process for the community and your children. For students in grades 9-12, Lipscomb Academy integrates service learning into the curriculum at each grade level.
What are my gifts and passions? Students will work within their Bible class to determine their gifts of service and God-given talents.
What and who are my communities? All students attend a Service Learning Summit where members of the Nashville community speak on service-related themes that have been discussed in their English classes throughout the year. Students take what they have learned and advocate for social change related to these themes.
What responsibility do I have to my communities? In history class, students analyze social issues facing our nation from Reconstruction through present day. Students research a chosen topic and combine this research with 10 hours of direct service with a local non-profit organization. Student write a six-page paper and make a presentation.
How do I take the things I’ve learned in class to serve the Nashville community? The senior capstone process begins with students submitting a proposal to work with a local organization throughout the course of their senior year. They participate in a minimum of 20 hours of direct service with that organization. In senior Bible classes, they work with teachers and mentors to complete a 12-page senior capstone paper and presentation, focused on their chosen social issue, the theological significance of the work of the organization and their personal learning journey.