Dear Friends and Family,
I am excited to share with you how God has answered a prayer for me.
As many of you know in the past I have pursued spreading God’s Word to children by teaching Sunday School, leading Vacation Bible School, and, most recently, by returning to the public school system to teach and be a librarian. I am in my fifth year working with the Wylie Independent School District. My first two years I taught 7th and 8th Grade Language Arts, and now I am in my third year as Library Media Specialist on a 5th and 6th Grade campus. But I have been praying for God to show me how I can step out of my own arena and make a difference for His kingdom. I have concentrated my witness to my “Jerusalem”, but I want to extend that to other parts of the world.
“You shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.” Acts 1:8
Pictures of my school here in Wylie, Texas
I have been presented with an opportunity to participate in a different type of mission trip in July 2016. I will be a part of an organization called Teaching with Jamaica through Jamaica Link Ministries. As a group, we will develop, plan, and present a 3-day education training conference to 120 teachers from Western Jamaica. Our mission is to collaborate with Jamaican educators and empower them with additional teaching strategies and resources to ensure that the children of Jamaica are receiving a superior education.
Because of my expertise as a Librarian, I will be working on a special team to build a school library for the Catherine Hall School for Primary Grades, Infants, and Special Education. We are currently preparing hundreds of donated books from picture books to chapter books to professional learning material to be available for the teachers and students of Catherine Hall School.
Pictures of Catherine Hall School and the room that will be transformed into a school library!
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Jamaica is a land of tremendous beauty and warmth. However, there is also tremendous need in this vacation paradise. Poverty abounds and most families struggle to survive. Many of the schools in Western Jamaica lack the basic materials such as crayons, construction paper and teacher resources that we take for granted. Here my students have thousands of books to choose from and build their reading abilities and imaginations, but in Jamaica the idea of having a library stocked with age-appropriate books is profound.
Pictures of past Teaching With Jamaica Mission trips
I am writing to ask for your help in 2 major areas.
First and foremost, I ask you to pray. In September, we began planning teaching sessions, collecting needed materials, communicating with the Jamaica team, collecting library materials and processing those books to be ready for the library shelf. Please pray as you are led and for these things specifically:
- Join me in thanking God for the blessing of so many donated books. We have so many that we cannot accept more. But now we must get the materials ready for library circulation.
- Please pray for us to get all the books prepared in advance and for company sponsors to help pay for shipping all the books to Jamaica.
- Please pray for our safety when we are in Jamaica. We will fly out on July 16th and return on July 23rd.
- Pray for Claire, Charlotte, and Carris to be content while I am away.
In addition, I would also like to ask you to consider providing financial support. I am responsible for raising $1,300 for my expenses and needed materials for the conference this year. Would you consider supporting me with a donation? I have included my address below if you feel led to contribute.
Should you feel led to contribute, all payments are tax deductible and our treasurer will send you with a tax receipt. There are 2 easy ways to contribute financially:
- You may send me a check, payable to Teaching With Jamaica. Please be sure to put my name in the memo line to support my account.
- You may go on PayPal and send a payment to teachingwithjamaica@yahoo.com . Again, please be sure to put my name in the notes section, and send it as a gift so that the organization does not incur any fees.
You may also simply write a check to me, D’Anne Mosby, but know that if you choose that option your donation will not be tax-deductible.
I am so grateful to have your support and prayers this year. I am extremely excited about the opportunity to use the gifts God has given me to help other teachers and children.
Please send me an email at mosbyfamily@gmail.com if you would like to receive updates throughout the year and after the trip.
Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." Matthew 19:14
In Christ,
D’Anne Mosby
1600 Redcedar Drive
Wylie, TX 75098
Thank you from my family as well!
