We Embrace The Mission

BCLS is a churchwide serving initiative that takes place during the month of August. This is an opportunity to serve our schools, teachers, and students as they begin the fall semester. In addition to collecting school supplies and prayer walking, a serve day will take place on Saturday, August 17th from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm at dozens of schools across Western North Carolina. The serve days will involve mulching, landscaping, painting, prayer walking, and helping teachers with classroom set up.

Supplies can be dropped off at any Biltmore Church campus and placed in the designated boxes.

Each school was assigned to a specific Biltmore Church campus based on proximity, with few exceptions. While we encourage everyone to serve at a school near their Biltmore campus, they have freedom to serve wherever they’d like.

Each individual is responsible for registering themselves to serve at a school site on August 17th. Connect group leaders are unable to do this for their members. To register go to www.biltmorechurch.com/schools.

Please register everyone who is able to make a contribution while serving on August 17th. For kids, please register them if they are in grade school and up.

After you register to serve a school, your site coordinator will email you with a list of tools to bring. Because the work is primarily focused on landscaping and beautification, it would be safe to bring a wheelbarrow, gloves, rakes, weedeater,

hedge trimmers, etc., with you if you have them. You will be responsible for keeping up with your own tools. We encourage you to bring a water bottle and bug spray.

We encourage everyone to register as soon as possible so we can have an accurate assessment of who is serving where. Registration will stay open through August 17th but this will not be externally promoted.

If you go to www.biltmorechurch.com/schools you can select the “Buy pre-filled backpack” tab and order online. These orders will be shipped directly to Biltmore Church Arden campus.

Please feel free to reach out to Matt Herrington or Ciara Carreno with questions or email us at missions@biltmorechurch.com.

School supplies deliveries will vary per campus. There is a separate registration link for August 21st. This is the Wednesday following our serve day. Please note, that upon registration for your campus you will be assigned a school upon arrival. To deliver backpacks you must be able to transport a minimum of 25 backpacks and be willing to drive to a school in your county.