As Christmas approaches, you may be where I am - endeavoring to celebrate the birth of Christ without being sucked into the rabid consumerism proffered by our culture. I'm writing on this first day of December to give you an opportunity to resist the call to spend money on yourself and your family and instead to do something good for a child.
My friend Holly is a music teacher at the Rice School, a title 1 school in HISD. With budgets tightening all over the educational world, one of the first things schools will often cut is budgets for the arts. While academics are extremely important, music and drama give children a chance to experience themselves and the world through a different and highly important lens. It enlarges that child's vision of him/herself and the world.
The budget cuts mean that Holly has to has to pay accompaniest and sound technicians and anyone else to make the children's production possible.
Anyone who has ever seen the wonder in a child's eyes when he or she participates in creating something that comes from music or drama, you know the importance of this work.
Betty and I know and love Holly. We watch her pour her life out for the children in her school, and so I'm writing today to ask you to consider helping us raise $2,000 as a Christmas present to the children in the arts program at the Rice School where she teaches.
If you'd like to help, you can write your check to Harbor Church and mail it to 308 Bomar, Houston, TX 77006. Write "Rice School Project" in the memo line and we will make sure that the kids get the blessing that your gift represents.
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