Who is my Neighbor?

 

Our Bible lesson this week was the parable of the Good Samaritan.  Who is my neighbor?  We discussed who are neighbors are.  As part of our understanding, we invited the 2^nd grade class from the Okada Community School to come on Friday for a couple of hours.    

They are our neighbors.  There were about 30 of their class of 38 who came.  Their teacher is Jen, one of my friends.  We had practiced with our kids all the events of the 2 hours they were here.  We put them together as buddies.  It was interesting to see which of our children really took that so seriously.  We sang some songs, including the National Anthem with 2 children holding up the flag.  Some of our children performed a play that they had been working on of the story of the Good Samaritan.  We had the traveler, 3 robbers, 3 donkeys, 3 people riding them, and 2 inn keepers.  It was very cute and I was glad that they actually were willing to act it out in front of the other children.   Then we set up a variety of activities: coloring, water colors, duplos, Lincoln Logs, tinker toys, sewing cards, puzzles, and reading books.  The buddies got to do 2 of those things over about 45 minutes time.  It went very well, with coloring being the number one favorite spot.

 

We also talked about the "neighbors" we know from around the world, friends who have come to our Village.