Writing to sponsors is always a big event for our kids. The kids want their sponsors to know how grateful they are for the opportunity to be at The Hope Center, but many of them lack the language skills to communicate freely and independently in English.
They’re pictured here copying a letter from the whiteboard that they collaboratively dictated to me. Concentration and focus are at a premium as they intently copy each word in the best penmanship they can muster.
Many of them draw or color pictures to include, and several of them send pictures of themselves. Unlike many of us with digital cameras who snap shots without discretion, pictures are a more precious commodity to our children.
For you to understand what a sacrifice it is for them to send pictures, you must realize that they each get about 3-5 pictures of themselves at the beginning of the year when Sherwood and I return from the states. As much as they’d like to keep their pictures for themselves, their desire to share them with their sponsors is even stronger.
They have a good grasp on sharing their possessions even though they own so little. What a poignant reminder of the story of the widow’s offering from Mark 12:41-44:
Jesus. . .watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a fraction of a penny.
Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything.”
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