Every summer, a group of older Christian men and women visit Neosho Christian School to work. They call themselves the Sojourners. This summer follows my wife's first year as a teacher in the school, and she surprised to recognize one of the couples from the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area. It turns out she grew up knowing these people, and they were a big part of her memories of the church. After teaching in two classrooms and trying to juggle two subjects at a time, everyone knew supervision of students was a real problem. There was a major desire to remove the cinderblock wall between the two rooms to expand the teaching surface. Nobody expected it to be completed so well or so quickly, but once the Sojourners determined to do it, there was no stopping them. | They didn't march around the wall in silence for six days or blow trumpets on the seventh. This time, it was all muscle to make the wall come tumbling down. |
Some of the students even got into the act as they volunteered their own time, carrying blocks of concrete to a second story window down the hall and tossing them to the ground below. Sojourners then stayed busy tidying everything up and redoing the ceiling in her classroom, in addition to mounting pegboards on her wall and building a shelving unit beside her teaching area. Already, they were repainting the hall outside her room and elsewhere in the building. It really was impressive to see how much these people did in volunteer service to the school. These are certainly skill sets that I do not have. |