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We are so thankful to Highland Heights Baptist Church for allowing us to share space in their building and have a playground area for our preschoolers to play outside in.  We are enjoying our courtyard playground.  Today we decided to spruce up the old playground a bit so that our refugee preschoolers will be able to enjoy it more.

We teamed up with The Church at Schilling Farms and Operation Broken Silence and worked hard together this morning mowing and weed-eating the grass, cleaning out and retrenching the ditch area, powerwashing and painting the swing sets, raising the height of all of the swings, power washing play equipment and blocking off of bricks so our children will not find them as interesting to climb on.  The grass and weeds were getting tall.  One of the refugee girls, we will call her Hannah, parted the tall grass in front of her as she excitedly ran out to play last Thursday.  (Keep in mind that refugee children are not familiar with playground/park play equipment.  This outdoor play area is very exciting for them.) Our preschoolers will really appreciate our hard work this morning when they see the play area this week during class.  Thank you Church at Schilling Farms and Operation Broken Silence!