This is a tribute to you, my sponsors—you loving people who take such good care of me. I don’t know most of your faces, but I know your names. Many of you have written faithfully to me over the years. I thank you all so much for the prayers you send heavenward for us every day. Those prayers sustain us in the war that rages over here.

It has been a humbling experience for me to see how you, mostly complete strangers yet brothers and sisters in the faith, have reached deep in your pockets to support little me. Who am I that you should send your money and your support to someone you have never met? Yet you did. Some of you hardly have enough money to live on. Others of you, missionaries yourselves, gave out of your salary to support the work of God in Benin.

Complete strangers whom I have never seen have written to me, upheld me in prayer, and have become my friends and my support. Many of you have even opened your hearts to me, telling me about your families and your past and how God has blessed you. I have gained a whole new family in you, my supporters. Thank you all so very much from the bottom of my heart!

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