Leo Sickmiller of Plymouth stopped and assisted Cub Schrock of NorthWood… a picture (in the above tweet) from Sports Photographer Branden Beachy caught the special moment

(9-5-24) An Indiana high school cross country runner needed help to cross the finish line at a meet this week.

Read the heart-warming account of what took place by a mother watching her son struggle during the race…and a Good Samaritan, from another team who came to assist and help the runner in distress make it to the finish line.

Rhonda Schrock story – Carrying each other ‘forward

At once, from nowhere, another runner in a different jersey charged in, picked up my son, and began to carry him down the stretch. Approaching the finish line, he put him down (perhaps to give him the dignity of crossing it himself? I cannot say), and to my utter shock, that son of mine crawled on shaking legs and collapsed one last time.

Take time to read the story shared about the race by a loving mom and her feelings about what took place.

Parable of the Good Samaritan

The parable of the Good Samaritan is told by Jesus in the Gospel of Luke. It is about a traveler (implicitly understood to be Jewish) who is stripped of clothing, beaten, and left half dead alongside the road. A Jewish priest and then a Levite come by, both avoiding the man. A Samaritan happens upon him, and though Samaritans and Jews were generally antagonistic toward each other, helps him. Jesus tells the parable in response to a provocative question from a lawyer in the context of the Great Commandment: “And who is my neighbor?” The conclusion is that the neighbor figure in the parable is the one who shows mercy to their fellow man and/or woman.