A classroom project aimed at helping less fortunate children turned into a bigger lesson this week at Stratton Elementary School when the teacher and principal realized the charity selected was part of an evangelical Christian organization.
The fourth graders were looking for a community-service type project, and one parent suggested Operation Christmas Child, said principal Duane Helfer.
The flier that went home to parents described it as a humanitarian project in which the students would decorate and fill shoeboxes with school supplies, small toys, personal items and other small gifts. The boxes would be shipped to needy children all over the world.
What Helfer and teacher George Hoepfner didn't realize, Helfer said, was that a Bible would be added to the boxes before they were shipped. They found out Tuesday when The Gazette inquired about the project after receiving information about it from a parent.
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Do they always have to proselytize? One time I heard a story in church about a church youth group that goes to some city and hands out blankets to homeless people. The group leader asks the youth if they know why they are doing what they're doing. One student responds "so that the homeless people will see the grace of God and will accept Jesus and be saved?". 'No", replied the leader. "We do what we do because homeless people need blankets."
_________________ "Buddha says: "Do not flatter thy benefactor!" Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church: it immediately purifies the air of all Christianity."
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