Tabor students, staff to participate in Morning of Service across South Coast
On April 22, about 600 Tabor Academy students and faculty will fan out across the South Coast for the school’s second Morning of Service of the year. The school organizes this event each fall and spring to assist local organizations with special projects that can be accomplished in two to three hours.
Many of the organizations Tabor students will be working with are ongoing service partners for the school’s afternoon, evening and weekend service program.
During the Morning of Service, students work together within their advisor groups, to serve their chosen organization, often one that has a personal connection to a member of the group. For example, Marion resident Connie Pierce, a teacher at Tabor, introduced her students to the First Congregational Church in Marion several years ago.
The students now occasionally help serve a monthly Friendship Table meal for the church. On the Morning of Service, her advisor group has been entrusted with a list of special clean-up projects to accomplish.
In addition to locations in New Bedford and Dartmouth, the Morning of Service will include painting fences and spreading mulch at Sippican School, painting bathrooms and spreading wood chips for the YMCA preschool program at Sippican School and cleaning church pews at St. Gabriel's Episcopal Church of Marion.