Students Make An Impact Outside the Classroom
Christian Women’s Job Corps of Tyler, Inc. equips women with job skills and life skills in a Christ-centered environment. Upper School students Grace Lewis and Slade Clyde are impacting the Tyler community through their work with Christian Women’s Job Corps. Here is their story.
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herry Skinner, Executive Director of Christian
The students were able to attend CWJC’s April board meeting, and on not long after, Grace and Slade presented to United Way for a grant request of $18,000.
Women’s Job Corp, was thrilled to take a tour with Leadership 31 of the brand new Center for Innovation at All Saints. She was immediately impressed with Grace “I am not normally a fan of public speaking,” says Grace, Lewis, who was sharing her experience in the entrepreneur“but Mrs. Skinner had confidence I could do a great job ship class and her role in creating the marketing and design and this experience is something I’ll never forget.” for “The Grind,” the student-led coffee shop. Mrs. Skinner quickly reached out to All Saints to discuss a potential parnership. Eager for the opportunity, Grace Lewis teamed up with Slade Clyde, fellow student in the broadcast class, to take on CWJC as a client. Within a few weeks, Slade created a marketing video for CWJC, and Grace began designing an annual report for them to use at an upcoming grant pitch to United Way. Over the next several weeks, Grace and Slade frequently met with Mrs. Skinner. Their high quality of work and impressive marketing pieces led Mrs. Skinner to ask Grace and Slade to occupy two seats on their Board of Directors.
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The presentation consisted was created and executed 100% by the students. Members of the panel were shocked and pleased to realize two high school students put together the entire presentaton. They said it was a “breath of fresh air” and “very impressive.” Grace and Slade feel blessed to have received an amazing education through classroom teaching at All Saints and real-world learning through CWJC, and they hope other women in our community are able to receive that same opportunity to better themselves.
When Grace and Slade were added as full voting members of the Christian Women’s Job Corps’ Board of Directors, our organization knew that we were adding intelligent women with critical problem solving skills. We were pleasantly enriched by their ability to craft communication messages with both intellectual and heartfelt stories that painted powerful pictures of women in our community working their way out of poverty.
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