The Preface is the part of the book that tells the reader why and how the book was written. To tell why this devotion was written, let’s first start with who Project Transformation is. 

 

     Project Transformation, or as our friends call us, PT, is an organization committed to transforming communities by engaging CHILDREN, COLLEGE students, and CHURCHES in purposeful relationships. We do this by literacy focused summer camps for children that provide books and reading buddies, healthy meals and snacks, art, chapel, recreation, and relationships with college students. Those college students are working toward their education goals just like the children. They are trained to run a children’s camp and to improve literacy, but they also are invited to build relationships with each other and God and to ask what their calling is in their life. Or, as poet Mary Oliver says, “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”  All this happens at and in partnership with churches.

 

     And books?  Well, books are the secret ingredient. Reading does so much more than make you a better student. Reading books allows you to travel and explore and laugh and cry.  Books can be both an escape from your present circumstances and a vision of your future.  Books introduce you to people who are very different than you and then allow you to realize that you are not so different after all. 

 

     The cultivated PT book lists help build libraries at site churches, where summer camp happens, in which children see themselves, their families, their neighbors and their futures through books. PT hopes that you will consider donating books from this list so that you can play a role in providing these opportunities to our PT children.