Monday Morning Faith is a fairly new club at the high school focused on the issues that face Mooresville. Through Christian prayer, students and faculty gather to pray for MHS every Monday morning.
The club has grown rapidly considering its fairly new creation. Sponsored in E113, the club has had a steady increase of members, averaging over 15 people a meeting.
In Monday Morning Faith, students have the opportunity to share their concerns about the school. As a group, we pray over our school, hoping that we will see a difference in our community.
Recently, prayer clubs across the country have spread like wildfire, igniting student led prayer for public schools. These clubs, including Monday Morning Faith for a small time, use apps like Claim Your Campus to use guided prayer in their groups. Mooresville High School has clubs like the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Campus Life, and Betterman (which has recently finished its eleven week plan). All of these clubs are great for student fellowship and connection with other Christians, but Monday Morning Faith is ultimately focused on prayer.
When the idea first popped into my head, I realized I needed a room sponsor. When myself and Gage reached out to Mrs. Carlsberg with the idea of a morning prayer club, she said she would allow us to use her room. Once approved by administration, I started posting on social media and put flyers around the school. Students started to show immediate interest and I could feel that we would have a good outcome.
Junior Gage Ott was one of the first people to come to the club and has continued to come to every meeting since its start on December 1. He has said that it has helped him focus on things that he wasn’t focusing on before Monday Morning Faith.
“This actually made me focus on praying for the school, which is not something I did before. Come together and pray in unity, thats not really something I do in school, either. We’re all just looking to hopefully help the school and grow closer together,” Ott said.
Another prominent member of Monday Morning Faith is junior Tatum Humphrey, who has attended almost all meetings and showed extreme interest when the club was first announced.
“I like that we have a different variety of ways our faith can show in school. It shows that there is faith in our school, even if you don’t really see it. From the outside looking in, you can see that Isaac puts a lot of effort into what he’s doing and takes time, not just Monday morning, but preparing through the week to have a good club on Monday and go in there thoughtful and not just throwing it together,” Humphrey said.
The club sponsor Kyla Carlsberg saw this club as an opportunity for students to share beliefs and grow in leadership skills.
“I think it’s important for students to be able to connect over shared interests! I also think it’s important for the kids in our schools to express their thoughts and opinions in a safe way. I think this club has allowed students to make friends with people they might not have ever talked to before joining the club. In addition to this, this club has provided an opportunity for leadership for some students which is always impactful for our school. I also think it has helped bring awareness to areas that we can care for each other as a community,” Carlsberg said.
Isaac Craig is the founder and current speaker of Monday Morning Faith.
