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Beyond Sunday

There’s a student in your church this Sunday who has never been asked to do anything. Together, we can change that.
A message from Pastor Stephen Cantrell, Administrator
Sound Familiar?

The Student in Your Pew

There’s a student in your church this Sunday, two years away from deciding whether church is something they do — or something their parents did.

You know the one. They’re there every week. They know every song, and no one has ever asked them to do anything.

Something changes in a student that no classroom can change: the day they stop being spectators of their faith and start becoming participants in it. For us, that’s not a theory. It’s a calendar.

It’s rarely a crisis of faith. It’s a slow exit from a room where nobody needed them.

Pastor Stephen Cantrell
Beyond Sunday

Where Our Students Serve

Our students already sit in a pew on Sunday, and most of them already serve in their own church. So we send them beyond Sunday.
Decatur Christian School students with Pastor Cantrell at the New Life Pregnancy Center banquet

New Life Pregnancy Center

Serving at the New Life Pregnancy Center banquet.
Decatur Christian School students who helped set up for See You at the Party

See You at the Party

Setting up for Decatur’s youth night on See You at the Pole day, hosted each year by a different area church.
Decatur Christian School students serving in the lunch line at the Good Samaritan Inn

Good Samaritan Inn

Sending groups of students to serve in the lunch line.
Faith Kelm, Decatur Christian School senior
Experiencing volunteering at the Good Samaritan Inn for the first time was such an impactful moment. Being able to give back to my community really opened my eyes and changed my heart attitude toward the less fortunate. I’m so grateful that I was able to serve, and I hope I get to do it again.
Faith Kelm Senior, Decatur Christian School
That’s one lunch shift.
Our Ask

Two Ways to Partner With Us

You’ve given your life to build a church whose full potential you may never see this side of eternity. We’d be honored to help carry it.
1

Put Us on Your Calendar

Not your Sunday rotation — you’ve got that. We mean your big days: Vacation Bible School, fall festivals, workdays. Bring our students in and put your students right beside them. This isn’t about our name. It’s about our students serving on the days you’re always shorthanded.
2

Partner With Us Financially

Prayerfully consider supporting Decatur Christian School — not just to keep the school running, but to keep sending you students who already know how to work.
One Thing to Do Next

Call the School

Let’s start a conversation that could make a monumental change for your church and our students. One conversation — that’s it.

Thank you for your time and for everything you’re already doing for the kingdom.

“Nobody drifts away from a place where they’re needed.”

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