Compassion Club

Compassion Club

Hillcrest Academy’s Compassion Club puts peacemaking in action. They keep us aware of needs locally and globally and facilitates giving to a wide variety of organizations. Two children, Daniel Ardiano Pol from Guatemala and Dayana Imaicela Acaro from Ecuador are sponsored through Children International. Our sponsorship entails providing funds for their schooling, medical care, clothing and household needs, plus gifts of money to provide for needed items at Christmas, Easter and on their birthdays. 

Compassion Fundraisers

Some ways the Compassion Club has earned money include sponsoring many Comfy Clothes for Compassion days, Spirit Week which included a senior/faculty game, and a cake walk and a silent auction. They also gathered school kits for MCC, towels and personal supplies for Haiti, worked at the Crowded Closet and gave food for the local food banks. Other charities the compassion group has given to include:

  • Shelter House, Iowa City
  • Empower Haiti
  • Leukemia/Lymphoma Society
  • Kalona & Wellman Food Pantry
  • Mennonite Central Committee
  • Kid’s Against Hunger
  • Operation Back Pack for the local elementary school
  • Children International (to sponsor our two children)
  • Scholarship Program at Village Schools International in Tanzania (Gary & Joanne Grenell, parents of former students at IMS, work at the Idigima Secondary School near the village of Idiwili in the region of Mbeya in Tanzania).
  • Syrian families