A Rockville Centre church has been given a new outdoor worship space thanks to the efforts of a teen parishioner.

Christian Carbonaro, 15, recently spearheaded a complete rebuild of an outdoor stone altar that had fallen into disrepair at the Church of the Ascension , which his family has attended since 2014. To fund the effort, he said he raised $10,000 — exceeding his original goal of $7,000 — through the crowdfunding platform GoFundMe.

Carbonaro pursued the project as part of his Eagle Scout Award, the highest achievement within Scouting America . He is a member of Troop 332 in East Rockaway.

“My parents and I were looking for places important to us around our community that had aspects I could help fix or beautify, and we noticed that the outdoor area of our church was kind of l

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