'I heart Marysville' campaign: 'It's all for the greater good'
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MARYSVILLE, Wash. -- There's a major mission moving mountains in Marysville this week. It's one idea from one church that's now fanned out across the city with more than 100 people getting involved.
Driving around their town, members with Marysville First Assembly Church noticed the middle school and Little League fields are totally overgrown, the dugout roofs are dry-rotted, and the scoreboard's covered in graffiti.
It's the sad state of affairs at several Marysville schools. But instead of staring at it, or complaining about it, the church is doing something about it.
Digging deep into a raised bed full of sticker bushes, Kim Johnson says, "This is an absolute mess. This is dead and dried up."
Church leaders and volunteers call their campaign "I heart Marysville."
"I mean, it's too bad the schools, they don't get hired work to do this sort of stuff, so it's real rewarding to be able to volunteer some time," said volunteer Christy Bruley.
Bruley and her husband regularly get involved in mission trips through church, but those always take them outside the country. This time, they get to make different where they live.
About 100 volunteers will fan out across the city every day this week.
"It's all for the greater good," Johnson said. "You know someone has to help somewhere, sometime."
They're cleaning and sprucing up playgrounds and fields, and even painting Marysville Pilchuck High School.
"We love Marysville," said Pastor Andrew Munoz. "This is our home and we want to show people that the church cares about other places other than the four walls of the building. We care about the places that we live and of course the people that live there."
On day one at the high school, the crew cleaned out a courtyard garden where plants all ran together. Munoz said the newly-groomed area brought one teacher to tears.
She explained it was a dedication garden, where people had planted things over the years to memorialize and remember past staff members and students. The First Assembly crew had restored it to its original purpose.
"I Heart Marysville" is proving so successful that these hard workers want it to expand.
"I can see that maybe hundreds sometimes would be able to do this," Bruley said.
The entire project started with the church just calling the school district and city parks department to see what they could do. They got a list of needs and are tackling them one by one.
Marysville First Assembly says they hope others launch "I heart" campaigns in their own cities and communities.
Driving around their town, members with Marysville First Assembly Church noticed the middle school and Little League fields are totally overgrown, the dugout roofs are dry-rotted, and the scoreboard's covered in graffiti.
It's the sad state of affairs at several Marysville schools. But instead of staring at it, or complaining about it, the church is doing something about it.
Digging deep into a raised bed full of sticker bushes, Kim Johnson says, "This is an absolute mess. This is dead and dried up."
Church leaders and volunteers call their campaign "I heart Marysville."
"I mean, it's too bad the schools, they don't get hired work to do this sort of stuff, so it's real rewarding to be able to volunteer some time," said volunteer Christy Bruley.
Bruley and her husband regularly get involved in mission trips through church, but those always take them outside the country. This time, they get to make different where they live.
About 100 volunteers will fan out across the city every day this week.
"It's all for the greater good," Johnson said. "You know someone has to help somewhere, sometime."
They're cleaning and sprucing up playgrounds and fields, and even painting Marysville Pilchuck High School.
"We love Marysville," said Pastor Andrew Munoz. "This is our home and we want to show people that the church cares about other places other than the four walls of the building. We care about the places that we live and of course the people that live there."
On day one at the high school, the crew cleaned out a courtyard garden where plants all ran together. Munoz said the newly-groomed area brought one teacher to tears.
She explained it was a dedication garden, where people had planted things over the years to memorialize and remember past staff members and students. The First Assembly crew had restored it to its original purpose.
"I Heart Marysville" is proving so successful that these hard workers want it to expand.
"I can see that maybe hundreds sometimes would be able to do this," Bruley said.
The entire project started with the church just calling the school district and city parks department to see what they could do. They got a list of needs and are tackling them one by one.
Marysville First Assembly says they hope others launch "I heart" campaigns in their own cities and communities.
A PTA group at a Eastern Washington school tried to beautify a local school. They had a work party that got rid of unsightly weeds, painted playground equipment, installed window treatments. After they finished this the school looked better and was more pleasing to everyone. The following day the maintenance and janitorial employees sued the school district for doing work they could have done on overtime. They School District wound up paying for lost wages and damages. And that was the end of community support!!!!
This is awesome for any group to come together and do good without asking for anything in return. We can all sit back and complain, point fingersm and do nothing to help our cities. Or groups, citizens, humans with a heart can roll up they're sleeves and get some work done! Way to go Marysville First Assembly for being an example for us!
I Heart Arlington.
my roomate's mother got paid $12443 a month ago. she is getting paid on the internet and bought a $477500 condo. All she did was get blessed and make use of the tips reported on this website
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I clicked on the video above and got a news video of the race for governor instead - not of the " campaign" I was looking for. The same article on the Marysville KOMO page didn't have a video link at all - meh!
My daughter is always getting involved in her town of Marysville. She doesn't belong to a church group, but a different group and they do a lot of the same kinds of things. Â They have fun doing it, they do a lot for the community, she has made many new friends and they all keep coming up with new things to do! Â
This how christians should act, serving others
The English just flows off the tongue, "I heart" Â Maybe someone works for Apple?
/waits for the unions to protest
 @Andrew Daisuke People should be paid for their labor, instead it goes into the pockets of the 1%.
Should have called it "There's something about Marysville"
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