The By Our Love Project is an annual school-wide, cross-curricular project based on John 13:35; which reminds us that we will be recognized as Christ-followers by our love for others by noticing a need and helping to authentically address that need in a meaningful way. This project allows students to put their faith into action by loving others.
2022-2023 By Our Love Project
What is the need?
A Buddy Bench for the Monroe County United Ministries, The Nest Preschool, and our CCCS playground expansion to foster friendships on the playground, created through a plastic cap recycling program.
How can we help?
This project focuses on recycling old bottle caps and bringing them together to create something new - a buddy bench. The buddy bench then serves as an agent of unifying and building peaceful friendships. The essence of By Our Love is outward, not just inward, so not only will we be collecting caps for a buddy bench at our new playground, but also for the early learning center at Monroe County United Ministries and the playground at The Nest preschool, which serves families who are experiencing homelessness. These organizations are a wonderful example of churches and organizations coming together in peace to meet needs.
Final Project Summary
During these two weeks, classes learned about recycling, caring for the earth and other people, and about Monroe County United Ministries. Each classroom spent time over the two weeks cleaning and sorting the plastic caps that were collected throughout the year into 55 gallon bags that were then weighed and transported to the company that will make the benches - Green Tree Plastics. We collected over 750lbs of plastic for the benches!
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