Classes have ended for the school year, but Génesis is still busy with the last of the students taking their re-exams, working their way towards the three months long Christmas vacation.
In the class of Christianity they just finished a project about the crucifixion of Jesus. Through the creation of the scenery on a wooden plate, the children had to use their imagination and build a miniature model of the crucifixion.
With help from their parents building it, the aim was to make the children reflect and talk about the crucifixion as more than just the death of Jesus. The crucifixion symbolizes love as well, because Jesus died for us, took all of our sins upon him and died in the name of love. Having understood that, the children made many different versions of the crucifixion and all of them had built in their own interpretation of the message.
“The project doesn’t have to be expensive, some children bought expensive materials, but others used what they found in the house to make the project,” says Carlos Flores, the teacher of the Christianity classes. He points towards a project on the table, which is made of paper and wooden materials. Hesle, a 10-year-old boy made this project, and the creativity of materials is definitely there.
As the roof of a small house, he laid toothpicks in a row, he used a box of matches as the house, he glued two sticks from popsicles together to make it a cruciform and put it in a disposable plate upside down to make the cruciform stand, and the plate is at the same time a hill. The different colors of the men standing around symbolizes the diversity – Christianity is not only for one country or one race or for rich or poor people, it is for every one.
Filed under: Anchor Point Christian & El Verbo Christian
