Oh The Places We Will Go: TCS GO Week 2025
“Therefore go and make disciples of all nationals, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” Matthew 28:19
By Samantha DePriest
The heart of TCS High School is to see our students fulfill the Great Commission and share the love of Christ to others. GO Week is an annual week-long opportunity to serve with fellow students in places all over the world. TCS is strengthened through these shared student and faculty service experiences. While we have students traveling domestically and internationally each January to give the opportunity to serve in different cultures, we also have students serving right here in our local community.
TCS Leadership shares, “TCS officially launched GO Week in 2018 and models the reign of the King of Kings through a week of concentrated servanthood the first week of school the first week of the second semester. The very first year, approximately 275 students dispersed into ministries dedicated to the forgotten, the homeless, and the hungry. Over the years the teams have grown and this past year, over 500 students participated in GO Week to minister to the least of these.”
TCS Student Lily Wozniak shares the gospel during a soccer camp in Ecuador.
Over the last 6 years, our TCS GO Week mission teams have served in various places all over the globe including Austria, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Jamaica, Haiti, Panama, and Puerto Rico. Mission teams have also served with a wide variety of ministries here in the United States including Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Mississippi, Montana, New York, and Texas. Our Local GO Week teams have served a crucial role in partnership with outreach efforts in and around our community including Backpack Buddies, Bridging the Gap, Camp Southern Ground, City of Refuge, Georgia Baptist Children’s Home, God’s Eyes, Habitat for Humanity, Hope Global, Hope Revisited, One Roof, Operation Mobilization, Riverlife, Riverside Church Pure Hope Outreach, and Wesley Woods.
While Covid, snowstorms, and even an earthquake have impacted some of our trips over the six years, our mission teams never doubted the calling placed on their lives to be the hands and feet of Jesus. Over the course of the first semester of this school year, weekly high school chapel services specifically focused on the attributes of God with intentional focus on specific scriptures and passages shared by various pastors, our students have been equipped and are ready to serve.
Please join us in lifting up our high school students and staff members as they serve in GO Week 2025. This year we have mission teams heading as far away as Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, London, and even Dubai. Many of our teams are serving stateside in New Orleans, Louisiana, Orlando, Florida, Phoenix, Arizona, and Dallas, Texas. We even have a mission team heading to assist in wildfire relief efforts in Maui, Hawaii. In partnership with local non-profits and ministries, some of our students will serve right here in our community as well as Fulton county. Over the coming weeks, we will share stories of our mission teams sharing love in action, spreading Faith, helping with community development, building connections and relationships, all while serving others and glorifying God. It truly is a great time to be a TCS Lion!