News from the Preschool

Meet Ditya. Ditya is 4 1/2 years old, and has been a Zion Lutheran Preschool student for 3 years, and is a student in Mrs. Peggy’s PreK Plus class. Her older brother Dhariya also attended Zion. Ditya and her family are Hindu, and their beliefs are clearly different than ours, as Lutherans, and from Christians overall. 

I love to visit the classrooms each day to see what the children are busy working on. Depending on the class, they could be coloring and learning their shapes, learning the upper case letters, or in Ditya’s case, practicing writing her name D-i-t-y-a . Since this is the PreK Plus class, the children are now learning both the upper and lower case letters. When I looked over Ditya’s shoulder, she could not wait to tell me that the “t” in her name was Jesus’ cross. “Look Mrs. Tracey, I made Jesus’ cross!” She probably said it three times with that huge smile on her face. I believe she was happier about the cross in her name, than actually writing her full name successfully! 

This made me think about the parable of the sower and seed. Our job as Christians and educators is to plant the seed (word of God) in the good soil, (our little students) so that it may grow and expand. Ditya told me that Jesus died on the cross, but that He is alive again. Yes! Seed planted! Our hope is that the planted seed will stay with Ditya and that she will come to know Jesus even more throughout her life. 

Blessings, 

Tracey