CHAT

We are so pleased to announce that Church Hill Academy’s class of 2013 will graduate on June 1st. We would love to have you join us for this joyous celebration.

Please take a moment and watch this music video produced by CHA’s hip hop class. Students Jayquanir Dipaselegne, Jamal Barnett, Patrick Wilson, Kamaya Tolliver and Kristin Robinson wrote an incredibly powerful rap about who they are, as students in Church Hill and as children of God. We hope you enjoy it!

We loved having these college students serving in Church Hill (From the University of Richmond, the University of North Carolina, Old Dominion, Elon and Randolph Macon). Check out this story all about them by CBS 6!

Did you know that CHAT has programming for 3 & 4 year old youth!? Our Tiny Tykes program is now enrolling for the 2013-2014 school year. Contact Beth Whiting (bethwhiting21@gmail.com) if you’re interested in applying. But definitely check out this video of the adorable Tiny Tykes learning over the past year!

Please take a moment to enjoy the Spring 2013 newsletter - we’re excited to share about some new partnerships that will benefit the youth of Church Hill, as well as some great upcoming events. Thank you for partnering with us!

This has been a long week. There have been many ups and downs with students in and out of the classroom. I needed a refresher. At the end of each month we hold combined house dinners; Chimbo Palace (the girl’s house) and the Light House (the boy’s house) get together to eat, fellowship, and pray…

These are four of the most challenging words I’ve encountered lately. They were presented to me from the book Purpose Driven Life, a book I’m not even reading. After multiple conversations with one of my housemates about how incredibly true and difficult these words are to live out, I ran across a prayer from St. Francis of…

I got a letter update recently from a good friend of the family who is going through training for the Air Force PJs (Para jumpers-I think they are the Air Force’s version of the Coast Guard rescuers).  He said something that really hit home for me.  He was telling a story about how they had…

The students involved in CHAT are always surprising me and making me learn something new. Take a few weeks ago, for example. I was watching our boys basketball (The Church Hill Phantoms) team play in one of their games. As they were getting ready to play and as they were taking time outs, something struck…

As tutoring began this week, we were all warned that each tutoring site would be low on tutors and be prepared for many students working independently. To be honest, I always prepare for insanity if the expectation is set to having a large amount of students working independently, but on Tuesday, the middle schoolers at…