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About Us
AED School & Foundation is a Christian faith-based nonprofit organization committed to answering the call to worship and serve Jesus Christ by supporting children and young adults with special needs and other disadvantages. Through our programs, we strive to create opportunities for participants to grow spiritually, socially, personally, and professionally.
A central part of our mission is helping children and young adults discover and develop their God-given musical gifts. Through our AED Worship School Music Program, participants have the opportunity to learn to play musical instruments and/or develop and strengthen their singing voices through vocal instruction and other music-based programs. Our desire is to inspire exceptional children and young adults to use their gifts and talents to glorify God while building confidence, discipline, creativity, and a sense of purpose.
AED School & Foundation also specializes in providing life and social skills development services for children and young adults ages 8–27. Headquartered in Southaven, Mississippi, we serve as a resource and support system for individuals with developmental delays, disabilities, physical challenges, and visual impairments, as well as their families and communities.
We have a passion for seeing children and young adults with special needs develop essential life skills, increase their independence, explore their abilities, and pursue meaningful educational and career opportunities. For participants with an interest in Christian music, we seek to provide a pathway for them to develop foundational skills in instrumental and vocal music and explore the possibility of pursuing future opportunities or careers in gospel and Christian music.
AED School & Foundation's programs are designed primarily for children and young adults ages 8–27 with physical health challenges, developmental delays, and/or disabilities. Our music programs are available to participants who have a desire to learn an instrument or develop their ability to sing gospel and worship music. We also provide life and social skills development services and specialized programs for individuals who are visually impaired or blind.
Our programs and services are available to families, communities, local schools, churches, and partnering organizations. Through these efforts, AED School & Foundation seeks to create an environment where faith, ability, opportunity, personal development, and purpose come together to help every participant reach his or her God-given potential.
Prayer is also available upon request for parents, students, and staff in the name of Jesus Christ.
We believe that every individual can have an impactful life, regardless of the challenges they may experience.
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Our Mission
AED Worship School and Foundation’s mission is to inspire exceptional children and young adults to glorify God through music. We are passionate about seeing disadvantaged children and young adults pursue a career and/or develop fundamental skills in Christian music, through learning to play a musical instrument and/or developing and strengthening their singing voice through vocal lessons. Our mission includes providing life and social development skills and services
for the visually impaired in our special needs community.
AMOS E. DAVIS
AED School & Foundation was born from a vision given to the mother of Amos Ezekiel Davis. Amos has a twin sister (Ashley) Davis. They were born on June 25, 2005, prematurely at 24 weeks. Amos’ birthweight was 1 pound 9 ounces, while his sister's birthweight was 1 pound 7 ounces. The twins have experienced many health challenges, one of those challenges for Amos is visual impairment/blindness.
The journey of AED School and Foundation started after Amos began formal education and his mother attended Individualized Education Plan (IEP) meetings to advocate for her son. She was concerned about the lack of progress and the services the school was willing to offer Amos. Many of the members of his IEP team lacked confidence in Amos’s ability to comprehend and master various skill sets. However, Rasheda had faith and believed that he was capable of learning and making progress intellectually and academically.
As a result of her frustration with the services the school was willing to offer Amos, Rasheda started to teach Amos vocabulary words and other skills she believed he was capable of learning. She also started journaling ideas to start a program for blind and disadvantaged children and families to provide better services in Mississippi, the state their family resided in at that time. She eventually put the journal in a box, but the vision and desire to fulfill the vision never left her heart.
Shortly thereafter, the Davis family moved to the Nashville, TN area, Murfreesboro, to provide Amos with better services and an opportunity to develop at the School for the Blind. After two years at the School for the blind, the Davis family returned to
Mississippi. During the second year of their return to Mississippi, Rasheda was sorting through some boxes in the garage and found the journal she documented her vision in two years prior. She thought “NOW IS THE TIME TO PURSUE THE CALLING.”
She saw a need in her community to advocate for families and to provide a music program as well as a program for the visually impaired. There was also a need for life and social skills services for disadvantaged and disabled children and young adults. She made the appropriate decisions to begin to implement the programs her community
lacked and needed for the targeted community this program will serve.
Rasheda decided in response to the need she saw in her community to advocate for families by means of providing a music program and services for those who are visually impaired as well as life and social skills services for disadvantaged children
and young adults.
This vision was birth from the heart of a mother who stands in the shoes of families who need additional services and resources to help their children’s lives become a little better.
Amos' parents, Terence, Sr and Rasheda, pastor a church in Southaven, MS. He was raised in a Christian environment and loves the sound of hearing gospel music and singing. Rasheda recognized the love for music that Amos displayed while at home and during church services. Amos was later introduced to the keyboard and seemed to take interest in learning to play. However, because Amos is visually impaired/blind and developmentally delayed, finding a music teacher that can work with him has been a challenge.
The lack of services available, like a music teacher, to the visually impaired/blind is part of the reason why AED School & Foundation was birth. This organization is passionate about teaching and training disadvantaged children to play an instrument and/or sing in a Christian environment.
We are also determined to support disadvantaged children as we partner with local schools to assist with life skills, visual and social services. We welcome your help in spreading the news of this organization’s mission to schools, administrators, special education teachers and all educators, community centers, and families. Tell them about AED School and Foundation and how we can serve in their community and cities.
AED PROGRAMS
AED School and Foundation is a non-profit Christian organization. We are headquartered in Mississippi and are extending our services/program to any community, church, or school district in any city / state in the United States. We will train worship leaders at churches/ministries to work with
children with special needs to create an atmosphere of pure worship toward Jesus Christ.
We bring our AED worship music program to you. We also train musicians and worship singers to work with the special needs community. We only train with Christian (gospel) music. We are not open to any other music genres. This includes gospel rap. We are NOT open to training with gospel rap. Contact us to service your special needs community.
AED School and Foundation is willing to bring our vision, life and social skills services to any city/state and school district in the United States. Our Team AMOS Specialists are passionate about assisting our program participants in their areas of interest. Please view our Team AMOS Programs page for more details.