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Soar With Us: The Eagle Ambassadors Lead School-Wide Emergency Clothing Kit Collection

Having a servant’s heart is one of the reasons PCA students stand out, and PCA’s Eagle Ambassadors, a Community and Cultural Service-based club, is a group made up of 19 high school students who want to serve. This week the Ambassadors are heading up a school-wide project to support the Navigation Center of Charleston. The Center provides a variety of resources for Charleston’s most vulnerable population – individuals experiencing homelessness or those at risk of homelessness.

The Center is in need of "Emergency Clothing Kits" to help provide clothing essentials to individuals and families in need.

 Our goal is to be able to collect enough new articles of clothing to assemble 10 Emergency Clothing Kits per size and gender listed on the Sign-up Genius below. Anyone can sign up to donate anything from a single t-shirt to an entire clothing bundle, and every item is greatly appreciated!  

Starting today through Monday, March 15 we will be collecting clothing items in sizes from newborn to adults. We are collecting new clothing items only please. Boxes will be set up near the drop-off table labeled by size and gender. Please place your clothing donations in the boxes and the Eagle Ambassadors will take care of putting the kits together!

Let’s join together as a school and help bring His Word into action.

"One Voice: A Black History Narrative"

Jeremiah Dew and his performance of “One Voice: A Black History Narrative” was a show that did not disappoint. 

In his “Sit By Me” presentation to the Lower School last Wednesday, Dew presented the story of Rosa Parks and the Freedom Writers as well as Dr. Martin Luther King. Using videos, child geared slides, and even student participation, Dew was able to present that time in history in a way that students understood.

First grader William Karnes said, “My favorite part was when he did the “I Have a Dream Speech”.

Unlike his Lower School performance, throughout the Upper School presentation Dew never stepped out of character, moving seamlessly through the great historical figures Fredrick Douglas, Dr. Martin Luther King Junior, Muhammad Ali, and Barack Obama. Dew performed portions of their famous works, letting their words as well as the words of South Carolinians who lived during during the time period, retell history. 

10th grader Kaila Guyen said, “I liked how eloquently he spoke.”

Dew’s afternoon presentation was the one that started his career a decade ago. Dew explained that this performance was supposed to be a two-night ticketed event. February 27, 2011, his birthday, was when he put on the first show. By the end of the second show, a man came up to him and asked him to come and perform for his company. Dew agreed. After that performance, a person at the company said that their spouse was a principal, and their school needed to see his performance. Ten years later, Dew is still performing, traveling from his hometown of Greenville all over the country.

When asked how he came up with the idea for the show, Dew stated, “I felt people needed to hear what the actual people were saying and not just the themes and philosophies in which they could be interpreted.”

It was a delight for PCA students and faculty to hear the words of great Black Americans in history come to life through Jeremiah Dew.