Beginning in the first full week of October, the Botetourt County Council of Weekday Religious Education (WRE) plans to offer an after-school Weekday Bible Club at Breckinridge, Cloverdale, and Eagle Rock Elementary Schools. (A similar after-school club is being offered at the other four elementary schools, sponsored by Child Evangelism Fellowship.) If you would like to enroll your third, fourth, and fifth grade students in the Weekday Bible Club, enrollment forms are available by calling or texting to 540-797-6675 or by emailing roja.mcrae@gmail.com. The forms give instructions on how to return them and complete the enrollment.
Weekday Religious Education (WRE) has been active in Botetourt County since 1936. That year, the Botetourt County Council of WRE began offering a weekly Bible Class to elementary students in the classroom during the school day.
When WRE was no longer allowed in the public school classrooms sometime during the 1970s, WRE converted a school bus into a portable classroom which traveled from school to school offering the Bible Class to students who (with parental consent) were permitted to walk from the classroom to the bus at the curb in front of the school to receive biblical instruction.
In the next phase of WRE in the 1980s, the “Blue WRE Bus” was replaced when the Botetourt County Council of WRE purchased portable classrooms for each of the (then) six elementary schools in the county and secured permission to place the portables on private property adjacent to each school. When Greenfield Elementary School was built, once again the Blue WRE Bus was driven to private property near the school each week.
That system was in place until COVID in 2020, and since that time WRE has not been able to resume Bible classes during the school day. The decision was made to resume WRE as an after-school Weekday Bible Club. If you are interested in learning more about the Weekday Bible Club, please call, text, or email as listed above. WRE feels fortunate to be able to rent space and offer the Bible Club in the public school setting.
~ Botetourt County Council of WRE
