Clean up in La Grange continued more than six months after Hurricane Harvey made landfall.
The Country Way Village was hit hard when the Colorado River flooded and families lost everything.
To help relief efforts, the Round Rock Christian Academy partnered with the Fayette County Disaster Relief Team on Friday.
"Our school decided it was a good idea to come out,” said student Katie Sheppard. “Serve and help the community after this great tragedy happened.”
Hurricane Harvey struck in August 2017 - flooding homes, businesses and upending lives. It left the Country Way Village trailer neighborhood desolate.
Assistant Principal Tiffany Jaksch helped organize the trip.
"Not only are we training our kids to be leaders in the community,” Jaksch said. “But we want them to learn how to give back to the community and have a servant-leadership approach.”
The academy students were cleaning the neighborhood so FEMA can set up temporary trailers.
"I hope that it teaches them that they can – that serving is not that difficult and it's not that complex,” said school staff member Mike Chandler. “You can do it in a simple way that's just going out and picking up trash."
Slade Walker said helping felt good and "knowing that our school's getting out there and helping the community."
The experience taught the students what cannot be taught in a classroom.
"Not only are we praying for them,” said Sheppard about Harvey victims, “but we'll come out here for anything we can and help them in any way that we can."