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Beyond the Living Room

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For eleven years, Denise Watkins ran a free tutoring program from her apartment on East 71st Street in Chicago. Every Tuesday and Thursday, twelve neighborhood...

This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Isaiah 49:1-6.

For eleven years, Denise Watkins ran a free tutoring program from her apartment on East 71st Street in Chicago. Every Tuesday and Thursday, twelve neighborhood kids squeezed around her kitchen table to work on fractions, read aloud from chapter books, and eat the oatmeal cookies she baked fresh each session. Some nights, after the last child left, Denise sat alone at that same table and wondered if any of it mattered.…

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