The senior adults at the Total Life Center’s adult day-care program can count on weekly volunteers Frances

Ramsey and Mary Wells to be good neighbors.

Wendell Baptist Church Pastor Eddie Brackett, who conducted the Bible school, said the participants in the program were good neighbors to one another.

On Friday, they heard about the example of a good neighbor from the Bible -- the story of the Good Samaritan who considered even the stranger his neighbor.

Brackett conducted the informal Bible study as part of the week’s Vacation Bible School said the Bible says

Jesus is the way, the truth and the life.

“What ought we do as a result of having read and studied the Bible?” he asked. Brackett said Jesus told the lawyer in Luke to love God with all his heart, mind and strength and to love his neighbor as himself.

The next question was who is my neighbor.

Brackett said the word joy puts Jesus first, Others second and You last.

The senior adults listened and sang old hymns. At the end of the study, Eli Baine, 4, and his sister Rachel Baine, 2, gave out Bibles their mother Casey Baine had collected from parishioners at Wendell Baptist Church.

Ramsey and Wells planned the vacation Bible School as an extension of the Wednesday services held at Total Life.

Brackett now has studies Wednesdays twice a month and in September the devotions go to once a week at the center.

“The church has to get out and take it to the people,” said Brackett. “They are just very appreciative of whatever we do.” Kendra Chance, a care associate and volunteer coordinator at the center, said many of the participants can’t get to church so they find the Bible studies especially helpful.

“They certainly love devotions on Wednesday afternoons,” she said. “To have a vacation Bible School come to them, most of the time they can’t get out to go to their own churches.”