The mission of Faces of Santa Ana is to lovingly engage the homeless through art. In July 2015, Brian Peterson and his wife had just moved to Santa Ana, California with a burning desire in their hearts to love their neighbors. Outside the couple’s fourth-floor apartment, a(n)____ man was often yelling on the street corner, sometimes keeping them ______ at night. Peterson, 28, would pass the guy on his way to work as a car designer, but they never _____ .

One day, Peterson was relaxing in his living room, reading the book Love Does, about the power of love in action, when his ____ disturbed by the homeless man. _____ by the book’s compassionate (有同情心的) message, Peterson made a(n)_____ decision: He was going outside to introduce himself.

In that first _____, Peterson learned that the man’s name was Matt Faris. He’d moved to Southern California to pursue a career _____, but he soon fell on hard times and _____ living on the street for more than a decade.

“It was a strange thing to me,” Peterson recalled later. “I saw ______ on the face of a man who hadn’t shaved in probably a year. And the ______ inside of him inspired me. ”______ Peterson, a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art, hadn’t picked up a paintbrush in about eight years, he found himself asking if he could ______ Faris’s portrait. And Faris said yes.

Peterson’s _____ with Faris led him to form Faces of Santa Ana, a nonprofit organization focused on _____ and painting portraits of members of the community who are unhoused. Peterson sells the 30-by-40-inch canvas(画布) — signed by both subject and artist—for a few thousand dollars, and put half into what he calls a “love account” for his _____.

Many of Peterson’s new friends use the donations to secure immediate ____ — medical care, hotel rooms, food. Faris used the funds from his portrait to record an album, realizing his ____ dreams.

Peterson has painted 41 of these portraits himself. He’s discovered that the buyers tend to connect to the story of the person in the painting, finding ______ and often friendship with someone they might have otherwise overlooked. “People often tell me, ‘I was the one that would cross the street. But I see homeless people ____ now,” Peterson says. “I didn’t know that would happen. ”

Each year, eight children in an average class in the UK are unable to read well when they leave primary school. Volunteers are welcome to join Bookmark, a non-profit organization to help ________this. With Bookmark you will brighten the futures of primary school children. Sally, a Bookmark volunteer, has a story to ________.

Sally joined Bookmark as a volunteer in 2021 when she had retired and wanted to________her time to others. Before volunteering with Bookmark, she had never worked with________beginning the sessions was indeed a step out of her ________zone. Sally felt a real________       to Bookmark’s mission and believed the challenge would ________.

“Volunteering has made me feel more________.I feel I am making a difference, however________it is. I get huge________from engaging with children and making them laugh as we read in a(n) ________ way. All the pupils I have read with so far have become________ and eager to learn. The sessions do make you think on your feet somewhat, trying to explain what words mean and trying to________a child’s comprehension of a story. I’ve also really________chatting to them and listening to them making up stories. Reading for pleasure is providing a________into learning   and a world of opportunities.“

As Ryan Lee Cox was waiting to pay for his coffee order at an Indiana, US fast food drive-through, he decided to try something he^’d seen on a TV news show - he paid for the coffee order of the driver in the car behind. The small _______ made the young businessperson feel _______, so he shared his experience on Facebook. An old friend suggested that _______ paying for people’s coffee, Ryan put that money towards helping school students pay off their delinquent(拖欠税款的) school lunch accounts. Sometimes because of _______ hardship, the accounts fall into _______ balance and the kids suffer. She got the idea after hearing that a Utah student was _______ lunch.

So the following week Ryan visited his nephew’s school _______ and asked if he could give some help, and _______ $100. Impressed by his _______, the supervisor began ________ fines before Ryan asked what the entire school’s balance for lunches was. It was $1261.98. “I’ll see you next Friday,^” he told the supervisor.

When he got home, Ryan shared what he had done on social ________, and that he ________ to help Lakeside Elementary have no lunch accounts in the negative. He set up a bank account and encouraged people to ________. Their target was ________ in a matter of days. With more than enough money to pay for Lakeside, Ryan ________ another school.

Within two weeks they had ________ $4142.82 and were able to help four schools. Inspired by people’s ________, Ryan organized a non-profit called Feed the Kids, Inc., which ________ a website, www.kidslunches.org, for people to start ________ for specific schools or to set up repeated payments to ________ a student. Today, this “paying it forward” organization is onto its fifth school.