And so, our church family’s missionaries to Africa, Jody and Jerry Manwaring, send this cool thank you gift in a thank you card after a visit here to our church in Camden (NY).
I think it is so cool that I decide that I’ll read the thank you card to the congregation while wearing the wristband. What a great way to remember to pray for Africa and for our missionaries – yes? You look down at your wrist to check the time and – “oh, it is time again to pray for Africa”.
I guess I should have read the card thoroughly first, because as I am reading it aloud to the congregation, I come to the part about the gift and the Manwarings say they hope we will enjoy the enclosed…bookmark?
You mean, it’s not a…wristband?
Well, if laughter truly is good medicine, then anyone in the congregation sick that morning was healed.
Undaunted, I kept sporting it until one day the end loop finally popped loose. Then one of our incredible seamstresses at church sewed the “bookmark” onto a piece of black elastic and with a pinch if Velcro on each end. It’s still a wristband to me, and it’s still one of the ways that helps me remember to pray – for Africa.
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