Others Before Self!!!!!

The past 3 years, Rockwall ISD has become partners with Rachel's Challenge (Rachel Scott, the first victim of the Columbine High tragedy) to adopt as a school system the idea of doing acts of kindness and by doing so, starting a chain reaction of kindness throughout our community and beyond. We have a rally each year to celebrate how wonderful the kids have done taking on this responsibility. They LOVE IT! We met on the football field and they brought in with the help of many school children a chain of all the acts of kindness recorded at all of the schools, plus they had a link for each of the million meals our community packaged for Haiti yesterday. Yes.....1 million meals in one day! It was quite the production! The chains were hanging everywhere, in piles everywhere, and went around the track several times. I think they said the first year, we had 123,000 links that stretched 3 and 1/2 miles. This year, there were at least that many with acts of kindness recorded, plus 1 million more for the million meals that were made. I have NO IDEA how far that would stretch. :) It makes one a little teary to see all that! The kids have really started to grasp that if each one of us does our share, it keeps on going. "The Power of One" was the them last year, and the community truly believes in it. This event was huge and the boys were able to be a part of the actual rally. Daniel took part in the choir, and Derek helped direct chains, etc. that the younger kids were holding. We are a little sad to be leaving a community that values such an important concept. Maybe Oxford, OH is going to have to look up Rachel's Challenge and we can help get that community involved.