Stuart Hall School is a member of the Episcopal Church Schools in the Diocese of Virginia.  Chapel is held Tuesday and Thursday and features speakers from the Stuart Hall community and the community at large.  Families are encouraged to join students at Chapel.  Please check the web site-schedules will be updated as speakers are confirmed.

We see life as a union of body, mind, heart, and spirit.  We therefore go to chapel not to worship in any one way, but

• to strengthen our sense of community
• to stimulate our minds
• to reflect on life's meaning and purpose
• to remind ourselves that ethical and moral issues are fundamental to education.
• to enhance our understanding of our own spiritual journey and those of others.

It is our goal that everyone who joins in this experience of chapel will leave with inspiration, enlightenment, and eagerness to be of service in the world.

During 2007-2008, Chapel will be centered on the ONE.org Millennium Development Goals which are designed to address the global issues of poverty and hunger.  The eight goals are addressed as follows throughout the school year:

September:

• Ensure environmental sustainability
• Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs; reverse loss of environmental resources
• Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water
• Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020

October:

• Achieve universal primary education
• Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling

November:

• Promote gender equality and empower women
• Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015

December:

• Reduce child mortality
• Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five

January:

• Improve maternal health
• Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio

February:

• Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day
• Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

March:

• Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
• Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
• Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases

April and May:

• Develop a global partnership for development
• Develop further an open trading and financial system that is rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory
• Address the least developed countries' special needs. This includes tariff- and quota-free access for their exports; enhanced debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries; cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction.
• Deal comprehensively with developing countries' debt problems to make debt sustainable in the long term
• In cooperation with the developing countries, develop decent and productive work for youth