Michigan —The Village Adventist Elementary School students are actively engaged in the process of helping people in the Berrien Springs community. Here's what John and Marilyn Dry, community residents, had to say about our students:

"My wife Marilyn and I became orthopedic patients between August and November of 2003, and were not able to be home for four months. Throughout those months, your students both sent a steady flow of get-well cards, and visited us with smiles and heartfelt prayers. The answers to those prayers made a remarkable difference in our lives. Then the third-grade students with their teacher, Ann-Marie Reichert, came and raked the ‘dry’ (pun intended) leaves at our home.

"Many citizens in our community will see and acknowledge Christ as a result of your students' good deeds."

Gary Gifford, Berrien Springs Village Adventist Elementary School principal, as told to Bruce Babienco, Herald volunteer correspondent