School Partnerships
St. Mark’s believes that serving our local community is a key part of living out our Christian faith. We know that education is key to success in our modern world, so we chose to partner with local schools to help meet the needs of these students and to support teachers and staff.
Estes Elementary School
Estes Elementary School is part of the Marana Unified School District. 77% of their 600 students fall under the free breakfast & lunch program. We have partnered with this school since 2018, providing school supplies for the classrooms, adopting Angel Tree families and donating Buddy Packs
Estes Encouragers
The Sanctuary congregation has supported Estes Elementary School since 2018 by providing school supplies for the classrooms, adopting Angel Tree families and donating Buddy Packs.
In January 2018, the Sanctuary Mission Team decided that instead of just filling backpacks with school supplies and giving the backpacks to the school district, we wanted to try a different method of distributing school supplies to needy students. Pastor Melissa and Mission team members visited several elementary schools in the vicinity of our church to learn which school needed us. All the schools recommended Estes Elementary School.
So, off we went to meet with Estes Elementary’s principal, assistant principal and secretary to discuss what we could accomplish with our services and that’s how Sanctuary became partners with Estes Elementary School.
Approximately 1,800 Buddy Packs, 200 totes ( containing reams of paper, pencils & expo markers) and 150 Angel Tree families (consisting of 733 children & also includes a gift card to Fry’s) have benefited from this partnership.