About Wonder Letters

A girl named Tsonkiri sat by the Ene River in Peru, listening to the howler monkeys call through the canopy. She was thirteen, an Ashaninka girl, and her world was green: cassava fields, jungle paths, the wide brown river where her brothers fished. Thousands of miles away, a child in Oklahoma pulled a letter from the mailbox and met Tsonkiri for the first time.

That is Wonder Letters.

How It Works

Each month, your family receives a physical letter in the mail, beautifully printed with original watercolor illustrations. The letter is written from the perspective of a child living among an unreached people group. Not a real child (their identities are protected), but a composite character built from careful cultural research.

Every letter includes:

• A first-person narrative: the child tells you about their daily life, family, food, landscape, and beliefs
• Original watercolor artwork: hand-painted scenes from the people group's world
• Vocabulary words: learn real words in the people group's heart language
• Cultural activities: recipes, crafts, and games from the people group
• Prayer points: specific, kid-friendly ways to pray for this people group
• A map: locate the people group on the globe
• Talking points: guided conversations about missions, faith, and the world

Who Uses Wonder Letters

Families subscribe for their own children. Homeschool groups build monthly geography and missions lessons around each letter. Churches use them in children's ministry. A charter school in the Midwest uses them for cultural studies. Grandparents gift subscriptions to grandchildren.

The children who receive Wonder Letters are ages 5 to 12, though parents tell us the letters spark conversations with teenagers and adults too.

Where the Money Goes

Fifty percent of all Wonder Letters profits are donated to Global Serve International, supporting missionaries who serve among unreached people groups around the world. When you subscribe, you are funding the very work these letters describe.

The nations are not far. They are one letter away.