“I wanted to come back to tell you that I’m really not angry that the shoes didn’t come in time. I know that you did everything you could to get them to come earlier,” she said. Then, she turned around and started walking back to the door.
Guam
As they think about their “kindness experiment,” Ms. Starr and the students know it was a success. “Kindness did come back. We tried to give them joy, but they gave more to us.”
West Virginia,, United States
Before you move I want to thank you. When you first came I had lost my way. I stopped going to church and didn’t plan on coming back.
West Virginia,, United States
Even during the rest of the year when camp isn’t going on, the children know that the Reiswigs still love and care about them, and that they are always welcome to come to their home.
Alaska,, United States
When I turned 9 I finally got to go to camp. I was so excited and absolutely loved being there! I went every year until I was too old for camp.
Alaska,, United States
“OK,” they told Logan, “you can stay up—as long as you read the Bible.” Logan agreed. But there was a problem—he didn’t have a Bible. In fact, he had never read one.
Alaska,, United States
The new Mr. and Mrs. Moody built their own little home beside Lake Aleknagik. After a while, they built a Seventh-day Adventist school on their property by the lake. They called it “The Mission School.”
Alaska,, United States
This quarter we have learned many things about the people of the Inter-American Division. We would like to test you to see if you have learned your lessons as well as the children have.
On the small island of Jamaica in the Caribbean Sea there are hungry people—boys and girls, mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers. From day to day they never know if or when they would get something to eat.
Jamaica
I invite my friends from the neighborhood to come to the Bible program at church. I’m glad that the grown-ups in our church help us put on this program so we can share God’s love with other kids.
Dominican Republic
Five-year-old Kenisha didn’t know what it was like not to be afraid. Ever since she could remember, people were firing guns on the street where she lived in Trench Town.
Jamaica
Every morning Rolandito greeted his teacher with a smile. As Miss Gonzalez watched him, she realized that he was different from the other children. He was so good, so obedient, so kind.
Cuba