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Bluebag Media
Student thanks range
from family to football
GREENVILLE – When Edison Darke County Campus Dean Janice Michael was on
a mission trip to South Africa, the parents of some of her Bible Study
students asked her to dinner. “I knew this would be a hardship on
them,” she said, “but I couldn’t decline their invitation.” She
described their home as a cardboard box with a packed dirt floor…
“Their wallpaper was newspaper and advertising circulars. It sealed the
cracks in the walls and added color to the room.” She added their
dinner consisted of rice and beans.
“The students would bring their lunch boxes to school,” she said. They
often wondered what students had to eat. Once they checked. “They were
baked mud cakes. It was better to have something in their stomachs –
even if it was mud – than nothing at all.”
She continued the story about a family with three kids. “Only one of
them would show up on any given day… then the next day a different
child would be there. We finally realized the children were wearing the
same clothes… they only had that one set of clothes so they had to take
turns.”
During Thanksgiving week students realized how fortunate they were for
their families and friends; few had thought of the trials of young
people in other countries until Michael told them of her experiences.
It was sobering for some of them...
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