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Students give back to the community during spring break
Posted: 03.15.2011 at 3:26 PM
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AMARILLO, TEXAS -- It maybe spring break, but some area students are not spending their week on vacation or relaxing in front of the TV. They're giving back to the community. Middle schoolers from Hillside Christian Church Monday and Tuesday have been in the community helping. From Eveline Rivers Christmas Warehouse to the High Plains Food Bank. Students are also helping paint houses and build and disabled elderly woman a ramp. Students are spending their spring break giving back to the community they love.

"It's an important value for us to serve. So we want them to learn early on that they can take their gift, their talent put it to use and be able not to think about themselves but to think about others first,"said Chris Condit, Hillside Christian Church Student Pastor.

"We have generation of kids who have a lot at their finger tips and they can very easily sit back and relax. It's kind of inspiring for me to see students who, we have about 60 out here, that are saying yeah am not going to sit back and relax which is what spring break is for," said Condit.

Hillside Christian Church says students have been doing community projects through spring break for years, and plan to do so, for many more.

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