4.10.20
The month of April is filled with holy holidays celebrated in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim faiths. This week, some members of our community celebrate Passover and Easter. While these are two very different holidays, they both recognize and celebrate hope. For all of humankind, hope has arisen from times of hardship.
In this historic moment of the COVID-19 pandemic, I see our FCS community sharing hope together, sometimes in the simplest of ways.
Yesterday our Facilities Manager, Dan Miller, shared a beautiful tribute to the new life growing and flourishing at FCS. He will continue to post news and photos to “Our FCS Campus” weekly.
Last week, Soo Young, the Lower School Music Teacher, shared a video of her singing and playing the song, “One Voice,” for all of us to learn together. It reminded us that regardless of the distance between us, we are still one community.
Every Wednesday, we gather for Meeting for Worship, holding each other in the Light, unburdening our worries and concerns, and enjoying our fellowship with each other.
Yesterday our Facilities Manager, Dan Miller, shared a beautiful tribute to the new life growing and flourishing at FCS. He will continue to post news and photos to “Our FCS Campus” weekly.
Last week, Soo Young, the Lower School Music Teacher, shared a video of her singing and playing the song, “One Voice,” for all of us to learn together. It reminded us that regardless of the distance between us, we are still one community.
Every Wednesday, we gather for Meeting for Worship, holding each other in the Light, unburdening our worries and concerns, and enjoying our fellowship with each other.
None of us could have foreseen where our school, our nation, or the world would be at this moment in time. Yet, because of the diligent foresight and strategic thinking of the FCS Board of Trustees and Cynthia Mowery, the Director of Finance, FCS’s finances are solid. We will meet our payroll and other financial obligations for the remainder of the year and begin to prepare for the 2020-21 school year, our 35th year in operation.
Throughout this winter, we met families full of hope that their children would be able to learn and grow at FCS. Last week, our Admissions staff, Connie Belfiore and Kate O’Connor, welcomed 49 new families to FCS. Once again, FCS will enjoy a healthy student enrollment. Even though our meetings took place on Zoom, the families’ excitement about FCS was palpable. What was once their hope is now a reality, and we look forward to welcoming these new members to our school community.
A crisis reminds us that we never know what the future holds. But in community, we find hope and celebrate all that is good, promising, and possible.
Located in College Park, MD, Friends Community School is a progressive Quaker K-8 day school, founded on the belief that every child is a valued member of our community. We offer a challenging curriculum imbued with strong values of equality, integrity, community, environmental stewardship, simplicity and peaceful conflict resolution, rooted in our Quaker heritage.
Friends Community School
5901 Westchester Park Drive
College Park, Maryland 20740
301-441-2100
5901 Westchester Park Drive
College Park, Maryland 20740
301-441-2100
