Members of the Church of Nazarene pull weeds and spread mulch outside the city police department building Wednesday as part of a community service project. They also picked up trash and painted curbs.

The Church of Nazarene spruced up the streets of Butler Wednesday.

Members of the Butler church pulled weeds, picked up trash and painted curbs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. as part of its 2017 Family Camp Week.

“We are just loving of people,” said Sandy Greenlee, the church's missionary president.

About 100 people in orange T-shirts provided community service in an area bordered by North Street, Jefferson Street Main Street and Washington Street.

They also passed out water bottles to people and balloons to children, and laid mulch around the city's police and fire building.

This is the second straight year the church has held a community service day in downtown Butler. David Smith, co-pastor at the Church of Nazarene in Franklin also participated in the project.

“Many people have come up to me and said that they can't believe we're doing this just out of generosity of our own hearts,” he said. “They said, 'This is what Butler really needs is for people to come and show them that we care.'”

The church received clearance from Butler Mayor Tom Donaldson to do the project. Donaldson called the church's work Wednesday “good for the city.”

“It looks really good to have the curbs painted yellow, and what they do is they hand out pamphlets and they minister to people while they're (cleaning),” Donaldson said. “They're providing a service. They're taking care of needs the city has that we don't have the money to spend on it.”

Greenlee said that teenage church members went into businesses and prayed with people.

“One of the teens prayed with a guy who couldn't believe he would sit down and talk to him,” she said.