Answer To Prayer: Academy Helps Rolling Hills Students

Posted on 20 February 2012. Tags: , , ,

SANATOGA PA – An idea inspired by a prayer breakfast discussion of educational difficulties among families living in the Rolling Hills apartment complex on Buchert Road has blossomed into a tutoring-and-sports program at Coventry Christian Schools that recently won a $20,000 grant to boost its growth.

Coventry Christian's Lower Potsgrove campus

Coventry Christian, whose campus occupies the former Lower Pottsgrove Elementary School on North Pleasant View Road, received the grant from the Pottstown Area Health and Wellness Foundation for its Project Purpose program.

It offers private tutoring on Sunday and Wednesday nights with Rolling Hills students, most of whom attend the Pottsgrove School District. It also sponsors a basketball team, the Chesmont Hills Warriors, whose players must be enrolled in the tutoring program to ensure they are what Coventry Christian Director of Advancement Mark Fisher describes as true scholar-athletes.

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2 Responses to “Answer To Prayer: Academy Helps Rolling Hills Students”

  1. shelly kling says:
    February 23, 2012 at 7:14 am

    I think it’s a beautiful thing. I’m just wondering why Pottsgrove couldn’t have initiated a program like this.

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  1. Monday’s Headlines In The Post | The Sanatoga Post says:
    February 20, 2012 at 8:24 am

    [...] Answer To Prayer: Academy Helps Rolling Hills Students Talk among participants at a prayer breakfast led to action by Coventry Christian Schools to form a tutoring-and-sports program specifically intended to help students living at the Rolling Hills apartment complex on Buchert Road. It won a grant for the project last December. [...]


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