On Friday, May 2, the Hunters Creek and Orlando South Stakes of the church received the Outstanding Partner in Education award for 2013-2014 from the Orange County Public Schools for service projects performed at Palmetto and Cypress Park Elementary schools.
On October 26, 2013 Orange county schools held a day of service for many schools across their district with participants in the Partners in Education program. The Hunters Creek Stake, which covers southern Orange county and most of Osceola county, organized a service project at Cypress Park Elementary.
In the weeks leading up to the service project, members of the church collected 17 bins of clothing, 18 boxes of books, and put together a teacher supply box for each classroom. On the 26th over 200 people including church members, students, parents, and teachers showed up to the school to beautify the campus.
Participants restored the reading garden by trimming, weeding, planting new plants, laying mulch, and pressure washing the side walks so students could enjoy their reading time in the garden.
Rocks that covered part of the parking lot were removed and replaced with pavers and all the lines in the remaining parking lots were repainted.
Lastly, the front of the school and other areas were beautified with new plants, mulch and sod to give the campus a needed restoration.
In the months since the service project the members have continued to build a service relationship with the school and is planning another day of service this summer before the next school year begins.
Click on any of the collages to see the full gallery of pictures from the day of service.
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