
Program Gives Children a Place to Rest Their Heads
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Student help build beds for children in need.
Helping children sleep better is the goal of Sleep in Heavenly Peace, a nonprofit that partnered with the students at Lexington Christian Academy for their service project last week, where they worked to make 60 beds for kids without them.
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Program Gives Children a Place to Rest Their Heads
Clip: Season 4 Episode 358 | 3m 11sVideo has Closed Captions
Helping children sleep better is the goal of Sleep in Heavenly Peace, a nonprofit that partnered with the students at Lexington Christian Academy for their service project last week, where they worked to make 60 beds for kids without them.
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Well, a good night's sleep is good for everyone.
Helping children sleep better.
That's the goal of Sleep in Heavenly Peace, a nonprofit that partnered with the students at Lexington Christian Academy for their service project last week, where they worked to make 60 beds for kids.
Without them.
>> We get to provide a need for families here in immediate need.
Now, kids that were not sleeping in beds, now they have an opportunity to have a bed and so sleep in heavenly peace will take it.
They will install it.
They get the whole bed and the mattress, all the bedding, everything.
And so I think when we found out their mission that they are trying to have no kids sleep on the floor in their town, we said, you know what?
That's something we want to be a part of.
>> Boundlessness is, is a community issue.
I mean, it's a it's a kind of a made up word, but it's a real problem.
And what we love about our organization and these students make a prime example of this.
We love the fact that it's a community problem, but we're bringing community together to solve that problem.
So we just, we just love the fact that that these kids are also interested.
It's, it's a testament to Elsie and the values that are helping to instill in these kids.
>> It feels like refreshing to like, help out others who don't have the privileges and the blessings that we have.
And I wish that we could just help out and do more stuff like this.
>> When she was talking about how some kids don't have beds and stuff, it kind of just it really hurt me.
Like I've always had like a bed to sleep on.
So I didn't really know, like how it would feel to not have a bed to sleep on.
And I think that it's going to be like, will be the hands of feet, hands and feet of Jesus.
>> What they get to do is they get to do something tangible with their hands.
That goes directly serving people in our community, showing that love.
But as far as the skills that they learn, they're learning how to sand wood.
And so they have power.
Sanders and they're taking them to the wood.
And that's, that's been fun to watch.
They're drilling, you know, they're pre drilling the holes that will help assemble the bed when they put the nuts and bolts together at the actual location.
>> We are staining the headboards for the beds for the kids to sleep on.
And once we're done staining them, then they'll, they're going to dry and then they're going to go over there and be put together.
>> There's been tons of studies with with kids and how much from a learning standpoint, how much, how much more they're able to learn.
When they're well-rested, they're able to pay more attention in class.
They their development, just their physical development.
Sleep is a very important part of how our bodies, our bodies heal and grow.
So it's super important for that.
>> I'm hoping that like the bed says that there's still people in like the world looking out for them and they're not all alone because like, you know, when she was talking about how the beds can help with like physical, emotional, I want it to help with their like soul and like their mind thinking that there are still people who love them and want the best for them.
And that's why they're getting this bed.
>> Man, what a great project.
Well, in January, LCA raised $15,000 to buy the wood and mattresses for the beds, and
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