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to them. I want them to have a doll of their own. I love the little
girl I saw.”
Perhaps because these children are still so young, they can
empathize with someone who has lost their mother or wonder
what it would be like not to have food to eat or toys to play with.
And they have not learned to ignore what they see.
The words of one girl changed the course of someone on the
other side of the world, and she was only 3 years old. Her parents
heard about GFA’s Christmas catalog while listening to a spot on
the radio. They came to our website, www.gfa.org/gift, to give a
goat. Then they got a copy of my first book, and their eyes were
opened to our national missionary program, so they sponsored
three missionaries. After that, they found out about GFA Bridge
of Hope.
Soon, they sat with their young daughter in front of the
computer, looking through the children’s pictures. The parents
chose to sponsor a little boy. Then they continued to look further
through the profiles. That’s when their little daughter spoke up
and pointed to a young girl. Her parents clicked on her, and their
daughter laughed and smiled, saying, “Now we have picked a boy
and a girl!”
Her parents had not intended to sponsor two children that
night. So they asked their little daughter, “Which one should we
sponsor, the boy or the girl”
She said, “Both of them.” And they could think of no reason
why not to.
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