Putting aside our differences

Over the next few weeks, students, volunteers, teachers, and a veritable community of people are pulling together our spring production of 'Stone Soup'.  Whenever an event like this comes together, it's a reminder once again that it takes many talents, many ideas, many gifts, and much patience to pull together something of such magnitude.  In a lot of ways, it is a micro-burst experience of what it is like to have a school society such as ours.

The story that unfolds in our spring production begins with three homeless soldiers looking for a meal, travelling with little to nothing to offer the village they stumble upon.  What they discover is a community steeped in rivalry, one where differences are so deeply rooted, they are passed along to the children, and lived out in frequent insults cast at one another....  (Thankfully, the playful antics of a dancing horse bring a bit of levity to the whole situation.)  As many of you know the story, the visitors rouse the curiosity of the children in the village by beginning to make 'stone soup'.  it just needs a little something else......  

As the story progresses, differences melt away in the preparation of a meal.  in the end.... well, in the end, you'll just have to come and see. "When you have friendly people and some good food to eat, you just naturally have...."

In an article written for the Christian Courier, Monica deRegt writes... "the story of Stone Soup is a refreshing perspective that sometimes all it takes is giving what I have, and allowing God to use the transforming power of community to turn it into something that will bless everyone. (1 Corinthians 12)" (Sept 28, 2015 issue, p 13)

I'm thankful this morning for a community of believers pulling together with what they have, allowing differences to melt away in the service of the nourishment that Christian Education provides for our children, and for our families!  Come join us on Friday, April 22 at 7:00 for our production of Stone Soup to celebrate the gifts with which God has blessed our student body!