KIDS' MISSIONS
Our Foster
Child: Mateo Garcia Espinoza
Through Christian
Children's Fund, Inc., our church school children have adopted a young Mexican
boy named Mateo Garcia Espinoza. He is 12 years old (he will be 13 on November
1st) and lives in Francisco and Madero in Puebla, Mexico. Thanks to our support
in recent years, Mateo’s most recent correspondence tells us that he is in good
health, is a good student, and is passing all of his classes. His letters also
tell us that our support has been a tremendous help to his family. He and his sisters and his father and mother
write to us a couple of times a year to give us an update and to offer us their
most profound thanks. We ask that each
of you, as his extended church family, keep him in your prayers each week.
We will be
writing to Mateo periodically, as a group, throughout the school year, but if
you wish to correspond with him on your own, you may do so by using the
following address; and please note, the address must be written exactly
as it is provided here:
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Mateo (most recent picture)
Every little bit of
help we send to our foster child brings positive little changes to his life. Each
child will be given a Mexican piggy bank at the beginning of the year in which
to hold their offerings. Each month (on
the fourth Sunday of the month – “Sunday Funday”) the children will be asked to
bring in their little banks, and empty them in the collection box at “Circle
Time” (Children’s Worship). A large
donation box bearing a picture of our little foster child, Mateo Garcia
Espinoza, will also be available for adults’ offerings and loose change every
week in Farnum Hall as well. Encourage
your children to put all of their extra pennies into their personal piggy bank as
part of their weekly offering. All that small change adds up, and is turned into
significant change in Mateo’s life.
Thanksgiving
Food Drive
Once again this
year the entire church family will join the children in their canned food
drive. The children will be invited,
for the entire month of November, to donate canned and non-perishable goods to
put in the Learning Center collection baskets.
During the opening hymns on Thanksgiving Sunday, the children will join
the Pilgrim’s Procession, with the entire church family, in presenting the
gifts at the communion table. The
chancel will become a generous cornucopia for the needy of Aquidneck Island.