With the Christmas season finally arriving, students feel ready for the upcoming break. However, the approaching holiday season also means that semester finals are on the way. This leaves students with a stress and anxiety-filled school day, so one club decided to step up and help.
A group of Christian students on the Texas High School campus, more commonly known as the Light Club, came together to help their fellow peers at the school. They worked on this through multiple projects, with the most recent being the Letters of Love project. During this project, the club passed out cards filled with positive bible verses and messages with instructions to “pass it on” written on the back. They did this in hopes of raising students’ spirits during this tough week of finals.
“The Light Club is really about spreading the word of God, and what better way to do that than to promote encouragement and happiness,” Light Club officer Charles Robinson said. “What I am hoping to do with this project is show love and support and to let others know that there are people out there who love them.”
Originally, the Light Club’s main purpose revolved around being a source of Christianity in the school for students, but it grew into a form of support for struggling students.
“Light Club is a small club that revolves around the subject of Christianity and Jesus Christ. We began this to help put Jesus back in school,” senior Iyanna Foreman said. “Since it’s close to Christmas, we just want people to keep going and know the Light Club is praying for them and rooting for them during semester exams.
This group of students works to not only put out helpful advice and messages, but also make sure they spread to students all over the school.
“The ‘Core Fun’ of the project is that on the back of each card, there is a message to pass it along to someone else, be it a friend or just someone in class. I did this because The Light Club is, of course, a Christian Club, but also more focused on the mental well-being and general morale of the student and teacher community at Texas High,” Light Club president Caleb Pachura said. “I am therefore hoping that people will feel loved and enjoy the community fostered by sharing these cards and the messages they hold.”
The club also helps encourage students to participate in the project through rewards that can be earned by using the cards.
“The club members are sending out letters with scripture, uplifting messages. A few note cards have short scripture to memorize,” Texas High teacher Greg Brush said. “If the student brings the card to Mr. Brush, room 8, they will receive two sweet treats if they can recite the scripture.”
The club does not wish to just be the background noise, hardly helping people, but rather a group of students that help others face-to-face and in the most personal way possible.
“I decided to hand out the cards just through a certain feeling. If I saw some of that looks like they were down or they needed a little laugh or just words from encouragement, I went to them personally and gave them a personal card that I believe fit the needs that they needed,” Robinson said, “Some of the cards have quotes as ‘you are loved’, ‘you are enough’,’ you are full of potential’, and some of them do have a movie quotes such as ‘life is like a box of chocolate you never know what you are going to get’.”
