As CSM becomes a destination for education and enrichment for Birmingham at the Avondale campus where our offices, warehouse, coolers, and garden center are all located, we have an increasing number of volunteers as well as visitors (this included several bus-loads of young students who came this summer to learn about aqua-farming). Though we were consumed with meeting many needs around our city this summer—running summer camps, distributing food, assisting inner-city schools with clean-up, repairing houses—CSM also found itself in need of some help to make our facility a more visitor/volunteer-friendly place.
Throughout the summer, volunteers came from all around the city and the country to help renovate our facilities. Individuals, families, youth and church groups, and corporate teams were here to help paint, lay flooring, repair walls, move furniture, sort in the warehouse, organize medical supplies, bundle diapers, provide landscaping, and work in the gardens. During Church of the Highlands ServeDay17, red SERVE t-shirts were fanned out all over (literally) our building and grounds, accomplishing the seemingly impossible.
We feel so humbled and grateful to have worked alongside all those amazing, generous warriors for our city, and to have been the recipient of their labor. Our building has been renewed and our spirits are lifted! Thank you to everyone who worked so hard to bless CSM as well as pour compassion all over our city this summer!
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| Directing traffic for the volunteers |
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| The new and improved CSM exterior! |
