Community • Spiritual Formation • Acts of Service • Giving • Prayer
Star Throwers began in 2017 as a student-led organization that exists to create community and spiritual formation among the students of OCA. We also express the love of Christ to our community and world through acts of service, giving, and prayer. To date, we have been able to connect with, pray for, and bless others in need with over $8,000 through student donations given at our Chapel services.
Here are some of the local and world organizations to whom we have donated and for whom our students continue to pray:
- Open Hands Health Center
- Pregnancy Center of Okeechobee
- Real Life Children’s Ranch
- Big Lake Missions
- Lighthouse Refuge
- Martha’s House
- Luke/Jamie Knickerbocker (missionaries to Nepal)
- Let Me Introduce You – Greg/Kilby Helms (missionaries to Belgium and Uganda)
- Cast Love – Grace Baptist Church, Cape Coral, FL
- Special Olympics of Okeechobee
- Vets Helping Vets
- Go.Build.Love
- Teen Missions
- Ride for God
- Wreaths Across America
- Wells for Life
- FAAST – Faith Alliance Against Slavery and Trafficking
- Voice of the Martyrs
- Wycliffe Bible Translators
Kindness Week & Donation Dress Days
During Kindness Week, students and staff participate in various activities. Each day has its own kindness theme with ways to bless others through monetary or item donations to local charities and missions, acts of kindness for our school, as well as kindness acts for local community heroes and first responders. The students enjoy giving in practical ways while dressing up in the daily theme.
Donation Dress Days happen when a need within the OCA community arises, and the students and staff try to alleviate that need through physical blessings and prayer. Some of the families that OCA faculty and students have blessed are: the Feightner family, the Nickalson family, the Ray family, the Cole family, the Entry family, and the Scherrer family.