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November 2007
Dear friends and partners, Someone asked me last month – do you realize the impact that you have. I am rather humble about that – yes, I do know. I went to Singapore in the beginning of the month. I went to talk with several schools who give us phenomenal support and the week ended with a Tabitha Silk Fair – it was an amazing week in so many ways – we sold 94k in 3 days – children would walk up to me at the schools and want to shake my hand – a number of parents shared the change in their children who had come housebuilding. As the week progressed I began to understand that perhaps all of you do not understand the impact that you have. Today I would like to try and express that impact.
For each of you who support the cottage industry – either by selling or by buying – tonight before you lay down on your beds – look in the mirror – when you see your self – look behind your eyes and see the women and men – your sisters and brothers here – and know that tonight they will lay themselves down – physically tired – but satisfied – tonight they will sleep well because their work has been sold – their children are well fed and are in school – tonight it is good because you stood with them – tomorrow is exciting because there is more work. When you kiss your children goodnight this evening – see your other children here who are safe because mom or dad has work – whose bellies don’t ache with the pain of hunger – who have mom and dad beside them because they earned enough to be able to stay home with them in the evening. When you see yourself in the mirror tonight – see your brothers here – who are tired but content because today they had enough work to feed their families – today they planted their crops which have begun to sprout – the pigs they fed and washed – the chickens that scratch beneath their homes - tonight the men - your brothers here - can rest in peace. For each of you who have built a house or paid for a house to be built – tonight when you look around your home – think of the many families here who look around their homes – families who take the time each evening to say a prayer for you – their angels – of the families who are safe from rain and from danger because of you. For each of you who have given the gift of water through the donation of a well – tonight when you take a shower – feel the joy of thousands of you brothers and sisters here – thousands of your children here – feel their sense of contentment as they wash the dust of their bodies before they lay down to sleep – feel their thirst slaked with the cup of cold water you gave to them – feel the stir of hope, of dreams as they have water for their crops and their animals – hear the laughter of your children here – as they splash each other with the gift of life. For each of you who stand beside us in so many different ways – see your children here as they have a new set of clothes, or a bicycle to go to school with, or a battery and a small TV to end the day with – see the food on the tables – food in abundance after so many years of hunger – see the parents sit with each other and talk quietly about dreams fulfilled and dreams to come. Thank you to each of you for the impact you have on so many here. Thank you for your impact on the staff and the impact on myself. May God’s blessings surround each of you for the blessings you have given to so many of your brothers and sisters, to your children here. Janne
