Posted: 5/11/07
| San Marcos Baptist Academy students loaded 50 boxes of used books into a truck for donation to Rural Nigerian Outreach project. |
San Marcos Academy
students learn value of service
San Marcos Baptist Academy volunteers collected 50 boxes of used books to help schools, hospitals and rural outposts in Nigeria, and an eighth-grade Boy Scout at the academy led his peers to build a wildlife observation platform for a new San Marcos park.
The academy provided textbooks that were no longer needed—as well as several outdated-but-functional computers and other supplies—to Rural Nigerian Outreach.
“Teachers change books, courses change, or texts become outdated for our students,” said Bob Bryant, school principal of the academy. “It is a real joy to know that these perfectly good books are going to be put back into service and be used where they are so desperately needed.”
John Myers completed his Eagle Scout service project by leading members of the academy’s National Honor Society, other volunteers from the academy and members of Boy Scout Troop 1954 to construct a wooden wildlife observation platform for a new park in their city.
Beginning with plans provided by the San Marcos Parks and Recreation Department, Myers made adjustments and then in one weekend installed foundational framing posts for the station, with the help from members from his Scout troop.
Construction was completed over the course of a second weekend with the help of academy volunteers. The crew donated about 50 hours of labor to the project.
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