{"id":1,"date":"2019-10-04T18:20:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T18:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anchoredbyfamily.org\/?p=1"},"modified":"2019-11-10T23:17:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T23:17:52","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anchoredbyfamily.org\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"Our STORY, Our WHY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back\nin the summer of 2016, Levi Lusko, the author of the book Through the Eyes of a Lion<\/em>, spoke at Prestonwood Baptist Church in\nPlano. It became my absolute favorite book and sharing it with everybody became\nsomething I had always felt called to do. In the fall of 2018, this book was\ngiven out to a number of students, staff, and members of the Pleasant Grove\ncommunity with the money earned from working part-time in a restaurant. In\naddition, the book giving expanded to people all over the country to share the\nauthor\u2019s message as well as to create a network for this 501c3 nonprofit organization. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As\nthe book was given out in the Pleasant Grove community, 7 students came\ntogether to create a family in room 332 at H. Grady Spruce High School. Every\nsingle morning, we checked in, talked about the book, and engaged in\nconversations to discuss how we could make the community better. In January\n2019, we created the club called Anchored\nBy Family<\/em>. Every single Wednesday after school we met to craft and\nbrainstorm more ideas to improve the Pleasant Grove community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first idea was to create a buddy\/mentorship program between Spruce High School students and Dorsey Elementary School students. This is about to be consistently implemented in the next few months between the two schools in the community, facilitated by H. Grady Spruce graduates of 2019. This past spring, we began by volunteering at a father daughter dance for Valentine\u2019s Day hosted at Dorsey Elementary. Our role was to help with check-in, help out by pointing the father and daughters in the right direction of the gym, as well as to pass out food and drinks at the concessions table. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After\nthis event, we continued to meet to discuss further how we could impact the\ncommunity in a greater way. To kick things off, we filled over 200 eggs with\ncandy and good luck notes inside for the Dorsey Elementary students taking\nSTAAR testing. Dorsey Elementary hosted a pep rally to get the students excited\nabout STAAR testing. The seven Spruce students, along with the Spruce drill\nteam, handed out the eggs to all the kids as they exited the auditorium and the\ncounselor of Dorsey Elementary introduced us as \u201cAnchored By Family<\/em>\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next,\na poster was created for a dear friend\u2019s family member who was diagnosed with\nan inoperable brain tumor. Tons of students at Spruce came together to write\nencouraging notes on cards that went on the top of the poster. At one of our\nclub meetings, following the pep rally, the 7 students from Spruce came\ntogether to put hand prints in different colors on the poster to give to my\nfriend\u2019s family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following,\nthe 8 of us knew that we were being called to something BIGGER and GREATER in\nthe community. We started to dream about building a community center in\nPleasant Grove, which will provide resources that are not currently available\nto those in the community right now. We are just getting started and cannot\nwait to see what 2020 holds for this organization and to see some seeds we planted\ncome to bear fruit and come to life. Running toward the ROAR today, tomorrow,\nalways and forever!!! #RTTR <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With love,\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            Your Anchored By Family squad and\ncrew <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kayla, Cedric, Crystal, Jonathan, Angel, Hazel, Kelson, and Ms. Hewes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back in the summer of 2016, Levi Lusko, the author of the book Through the Eyes of a Lion, spoke at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano. It became my absolute…<\/p>\n

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