Keysha in Indonesia

I can help others by sharing what I have

Ask:
Have you had fun learning about girls and boys in different countries?
What is one country you would like to visit most from the ones you’ve learned about?
What gift would you want to bring from your country to give to new friends?

Today is our last stop on our Family World Tour! Today, we will meet one more friend, a girl named Keysha, who lives in Indonesia. Have you ever been to an island? Indonesia is one country with almost more islands than you can count! Six thousand islands have people living on them, and amazing animals live there, too. Orangutans, leopards, peacocks, and even Komodo dragons! The people of Indonesia eat delicious food like chicken, fish, vegetables with spices, and coconut milk—but every meal usually contains rice.

Keysha is nine years old and loves to learn and play with her friends at church. She loves Bible stories about Jesus and all the miracles He did. Her favorite story is the story of Jesus feeding 5,000 people with only five little loaves of bread and two fish. When she heard this story, Keysha wanted to help people who were hungry like Jesus did! She looked around her house to see what she had to share. Her family didn’t have a lot of extra things, but she saw a very big bag of rice in her kitchen.

After asking her parents, Keysha decided she wanted to give five handfuls of rice to someone who needed it more than she did. She remembered one grandmother in her village who was blind and had no family. Keysha decided to give her rice away to her.

When Keysha told her friends about her plan, they wanted to join in, too! The news quickly spread, and after a few weeks, her church had collected 75 kg of rice to give to those in their village who were hungry and in need! The church started a group that would continue to help and regularly shares because Keysha wanted to love others the way Jesus did. It took five little handfuls of rice to inspire a village to love and create a lasting change!

Compassion International was started by one young man who saw children who needed help and wanted to do something about it. All over the world, people choose to follow Jesus by loving others and giving away something they have so that others have enough. Because even though these boys and girls live far away, they are part of God’s family—which makes them our family!

Read the Bible verses for today together.

Ask and Discuss:

What area of the world would you like to learn more about?
What could you do to help your family remember to pray for and serve kids worldwide?
What do you have that you could share with others to show God’s love?

Pray:

Father of every nation, thank You for the chance we’ve gotten to learn more from boys and girls worldwide. Your love is so high, deep, long, and wide and stretches to every corner of Your creation. You care for and love each of Your children so much. Help me take the lessons I’ve learned from the kids I’ve met and use them in my everyday life. Thank You for these new friends I’ve met and all that I’ve learned from them. Please keep them safe and continue to walk with them wherever they might go. Amen.

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