Little things count!

Helen Keller was quoted by a supporter of prisoner advocacy this week as telling the Tennessee Legislature that when she was young she had longed to do great things and could not, so she decided to do small things in a great way.

I thought you might like to know some of the small things that HFP did this week:

-personally answered 12 pleas for assistance in writing
-sent contact information to persons in California, Nevada, Texas and Virginia who were at a loss to know how to help their loved ones in prison
-sent six devotional booklets to Christian prisoners who wanted something to read
-at the request of a sister, shipped a copy of the Maurice Carter book Sweet Freedom to her brother
-called a prisoner's mom in Detroit to tell her of his new visiting hours, after the prison messed with his outgoing mail
-suggested to a family member what to do with the written confession of a grown woman who, as a child, had wrongly accused her brother
-encouraged a prisoner by phone who is concerned about an upcoming Parole Board decision
-saw that an indigent prisoner got 15 bucks to pay back his bunkie for coffee, and
-offered our services to a North Dakota attorney battling to free a wrongly convicted Bosnian prisoner.

A friend of Penny Ryder (American Friends Service Committee) said this week: I have found that the "little things" we do for prisoners seem to be "great things" to them, and even greater to God!

Thanks to your continued support with prayers and dollars, we'll do our best NOT to forget "the little things" for prisoners!

Doug Tjapkes, President
HUMANITY FOR PRISONERS
20 W. Muskegon Avenue
Muskegon, MI 49440

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