We emailed missionaries the kids chose from the PCUSA web site's missionary listing. We used the computer lab to write emails to missionaries. We made up a list of questions that might be interesting. The older kids wrote their emails but for time's sake I typed the ?s all up and showed the young kids how to cut and paste. They chose questions that interested them and added comments of their own to their letters. They loved this.

While some worked at the computers others found their chosen country in the atlas and filled out a sheet of interesting info about it. (language spoken, religions, climate, size...) We then used a large map and attached their info sheets with strings. We posted it out where the congregation could see it and as responses came back we posted them by their child's country info sheet. One dialogue was so emotional we had the girl and her father read it as a minute for mission. Powerful.