More than 100 Liberty University students participated in 17 community service projects throughout the city of Lynchburg, Va., during Liberty's first Love On Lynchburg Day on Saturday, Feb. 23.

Lynchburg, Va. (PRWEB) February 26, 2013

More than 100 students participated in 16 community service projects throughout the city, which ranged from cleaning homes of disabled residents to building wheelchair ramps, serving food to the hungry, constructing a youth media center in a low-income neighborhood; playing games, baking cookies, and entertaining residents at nursing homes; and beautifying city spaces.

CCI, launched in September 2012, focuses on meeting the short-term, immediate needs of the community. Every weekend, CCI sends out five to eight care teams of up to 10 students each, all led by students. Liberty fields requests from people seeking help for themselves or for their family and friends and also partners with charitable organizations to help meet their needs. More than 70 projects have been completed, totaling 2,255 hours of service.

Harold Burgess, a resident at Guggenheimer Health and Rehabilitation Center, was delighted to play games with students, bake and decorate cookies, and hear students sing during LOL Day.

Everybody was having a good time laughing and carrying on we had a lot of fun, he said. I like humor, a good laugh is better than a pill any day.

He said the experience benefits all the residents, and the students, too.

It is good for (Liberty) students and it is good for us because we get to know what is going on in the outside world, and they may pick up some bits and pieces of what we went through when we were their ages, and that is good, Burgess said.

Glenda Fort, director of Parkview Community Mission on Memorial Avenue, was overjoyed to be a part of the first LOL Day. Parkview is the largest nonprofit food pantry in Lynchburg, offering groceries to 1,000 Lynchburg families monthly. They also deliver food three times a week to various households and offer a free dinner every Wednesday night to those in need.

We love having Liberty students. It is a great experience for them, and it is great for the neighbors we serve to see them, said Fort. Liberty historically always has such a great group of students with a great attitude and many of them really connect with our neighbors that walk through the doors, and what they do is priceless.

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Liberty University Students Serve the Community on First Love on Lynchburg Day