ALLEGRO FOUNDATION
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Allegro Foundation…a Champion for Children with Disabilities would like to say a heartfelt THANK YOU to the Sardis Presbyterian staff and members of the congregation for your dedicated support! Allegro is blessed to have it’s ministry a part of Sardis!
Allegro Foundation is a nonprofit organization that combines movement instruction with medical and educational expertise, creating a NEW vehicle to teach children with disabilities.
Jesus spent his life serving others, and He taught that whenever we find people in need, we should help them. This is exactly what Allegro does right here in our community!
Allegro launched its very first program at Sardis in 2000, and we are blessed to remain an important ministry of the church. Allegro also recently received the honor of becoming an approved designated mission of the Presbytery.
Allegro's basic philosophy emphasizes the total learning process by combining cognitive and muscle memory together to stimulate sequential and conceptual learning.
Allegro currently conducts an after school program for children with disabilities in Sardis’s Fellowship Hall on Thursday afternoon. This free program brings children with disabilities and their families into our church, providing them a spiritual home in our congregation.
Not only does Allegro hold free classes at Sardis, but we also teach more than 480 children with disabilities and at risk alongside more than 600 volunteers in 20 free programs throughout Charlotte. Allegro conducts weekly classes at impoverished preschools, elementary schools and community locations, including outpatient programs at Carolinas Medical Center. Allegro also teaches nursing students and public school teachers how to work with our students with disabilities through 2 nursing student rotation programs and a continuing education program.
Visit their website at www.allegrofoundation.net
In 2004 and 2005 Allegro’s students made history as the first group of children with disabilities to perform at The White House in our nation’s history. Allegro Foundation, including Sardis Members Pat Farmer, Founder/Executive Director, Jane Fastje, Program/Education Director, and students Harry Sisco and Jenna Clayton performed at in the State Dining Room of The White House for the President and his private party of ambassadors on December 6, 2008. Sardis Director of Music Ministry, Ken DeBoer, and Sharon DeBoer, Sardis Music Associate, taught holiday songs to Allegro’s students, and Mr. DeBoer played the accompanying piano during the performance at The White House.
Thank you, members of Sardis Presbyterian Church, for sharing your time, talents, and financial support with Allegro Foundation’s more than 480 deserving children with disabilities!
For more information about Allegro, please visit our website at www.allegrofoundation.net.
If you are interested in enrolling your child or volunteer, please email our office or call (704) 412-5229.