This story was submitted by our friends at Van Buren United Methodist Church in Van Buren, IN. “We had an end of the year party. We had a game we played with the kids like ’20 Questions’. One of the questions was, Who is your best friend? Most of the kids said to their […]
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Jayden had only been meeting with his new Kids Hope mentor, Ms. Kelly, every Thursday for a few weeks when he told her, “I wish you could come on Monday’s because then I wouldn’t have to wait all week.” This story was submitted by our friends at Coloma United Methodist Church in Coloma, MI.
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Dale, a Kids Hope USA mentor e-mailed his church director asking for a list of substitute mentors because he had a conflict with meeting his student, Asher for the following week. The director immediately e-mailed Dale the list of substitute mentors. The following day, Dale responded back with this e-mail, “I rescheduled my mentoring time for Tuesday instead
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Kristi, a KIDS HOPE USA mentor was working with her mentee, Drew using vocabulary words in sentences. The word, Kristi gave Drew was inspire. Kristi made the sentence, “Drew inspires me because she reads so well.” Kristi then told, Drew it was her turn to make a sentence. Drew came up with this sentence, “I am inspired by Mrs. Kristi
“I am inspired by Mrs. Kristi because she comes to visit me every week.” Read More »
Miss Jamie, a KIDS HOPE USA mentor recently began mentoring, Ella who has already missed 26 days of school. After only two mentoring sessions together, Ella said, “I missed a few days of school this week, but I’ll never miss our day together!” This story is from our friends at Mt. Pleasant United Methodist in Mineral
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Miss Lydia has been meeting with Alaina for 3 years now. This week during their time together, Alaina said, “Miss Lydia, I wish that you were just a little bit younger.” “Why is that?” asked Miss Lydia. “Well, because sometimes when you get a little older, people die and I never want you to die”,
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Colton, a KIDS HOPE USA student recently shared this with his mentor, “In 1st grade you were okay. In 2nd grade you were kinda cool. Now, in 3rd grade you are SO COOL!” This story was submitted by our friends at Fort Worth Presbyterian Church in Fort Worth, TX.
Marti, a KIDS HOPE USA Mentor was talking to her mentee, Morgan while they were working on the “Book About Me” and the question was asked, “If you could be doing anything else right now, what would you do?” Marti teasingly said, “Oh, you better be careful how you answer this one.” Morgan responded, “I
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Troy, a KIDS HOPE USA Mentor recently received a commonly asked question from KHUSA students when he went to school for his mentoring hour. “Do you come to see anyone else at this school?” asked his mentee, Xavier. Troy replied, “No, I only come to see you.” Xavier declared, “You can come any day”. This
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