Dear Friend,

My son Elliott and I were at the grocery store this week discussing Easter and the feast our family was planning. And then he asked me the honest question that I myself remember asking when I was a child.  

“If Jesus died on the cross on Good Friday, why do we call it ‘good?’”

As I attempted to unpack the answer for him, I had a question back: ”Elliott, how do you know when someone really loves you?”

John 15:13 says, “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” 

Jesus loved us so completely, He went to the cross for us. The act of Him taking on our sin and showing us how far He is willing to go to love us… is a goodness beyond human comprehension that makes me deeply appreciate the beauty of loving at great cost. 

Similarly, the love and support our Savings Group participants experience is born out of some incredibly difficult circumstances. They are all struggling under the heavy weight of poverty and all the trauma that comes with it, and yet there is beauty in taking on one another's burdens and journeying together out of suffering.

Thank you for walking alongside us in this work. This Easter, I wish you all the joy and rich blessing of both being loved at great cost and loving someone sacrificially. Both are indeed good.