Child 2 Child - Take 2

For maybe a couple of years now, I, along with 3 or 4 other women have been working with a dedicated group of little girls each Wednesday night. They call themselves Child 2 Child. This group of kids began making craft items each week and selling them only to church members. We never went outside the walls with their crafts and yet these little girls were able to help build a well in Kenya, buy formula for babies in an Guatemalan orphanage, purchase a Universal Nut Sheller for the Full Belly Project, send monies and hand sewn blankets to the Navajo here in our own country. They've done all this and so much more that I can't bring to memory right now. This from about 10 girls in a small church here in Florida.

They've memorized and taken to heart the full meaning of Matthew 25:40. They viewed pictures of starving children as they learned not everyone is as fortunate as they are. They know the dangers of mosquitoes and malaria. They know how AIDS can kill off a whole tribe if the necessary meds aren't available. At one point we even had a 5 yr old who could tell you what a guinea worm is and what it does to a person's body. It's a lot for kids, but it's Christ for them. It's Christ through them.

We adults decided to take time off from crafting and teach them to sew. For the last several months they've learned all sorts of intricate details that come with both hand stitching and machine. We're all so proud of them. During this time they made items to take home since many were what we lovingly call "design challenged." It's been good for them because they've learned a craft they can take with them for a lifetime. But, it also has taken them away from the heart of Child 2 Child - the giving from one child who has so much to another who has little. So, we'll be starting back with our original purpose very soon.

Each week I have Bible time with them before they work. I wanted to share with you a book I plan to purchase to read to them each week along with their Scriptures. Katie Davis is a young woman who has given her life over completely to the Lord. View the video and you'll see why her book may be just the thing for this particular group of little girls. You may find out it is just the thing for you, too.



The book is out in October, but you can preorder it here.

Poverty Tourism

I want to fill a rental van marked “Tourist” with unbelievably rich people and then I want to bring them to your middle-class neighborhood to take pictures of you and your kids and your house and your cars.

I’ll act as the unofficial tour guide to their trip, walking them slowly down the street, pointing out the shocking differences between their lifestyle and yours. “This man,” I will say with a gesture of my upturned palm, “cuts his own lawn.”

“These kids share a bedroom.”

“Many of these families require two incomes… just to survive.”

Are short-term missions teams sent to impoverished communities helpful...? or harmful...? or maybe neither...? Whadayathink?

Read one woman's thoughts (or beginning thoughts) here.

Child 2 Child

Check out Child 2 Child and read how a group of 12 little girls, 1st grade -8th grade, are making a difference in the lives of children living in abject poverty. If they can do it, so can you.