{"id":44307,"date":"2018-10-19T11:03:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T18:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/?p=44307"},"modified":"2020-06-04T17:01:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T00:01:44","slug":"teenager-gives-treasure-help-family-gift-catalog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/charitable-giving-news-stories\/teenager-gives-treasure-help-family-gift-catalog","title":{"rendered":"A teenager gives his treasure to help a family from the Gift Catalog"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Jesse Klaasen <\/span><span class=\"s2\">is a big-hearted western Michigan teen who saved up his treasures for another in need thousands of miles away. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">For three years, Jesse, 16, worked on a cattle farm in western Michigan and saved his paychecks &mdash; totaling $4,500 &mdash; to pay for a home for a struggling mother and her children through <a href=\"https:\/\/donate.worldvision.org\/giftcatalog?campaign=31413214\" rel=\"noopener\">World Vision&rsquo;s Gift Catalog<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">He sacrificed himself through physical labor and resisted the temptation to spend his hard-earned money so a family he doesn&rsquo;t even know could have a better life. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Jesse loves to give through the Gift Catalog, donating funds for animals and other gifts for the past five years as part of his commitment to tithing at least 10% of his income. Whenever his family receives the Gift Catalog in the mail, Jesse carefully studies it to determine what he wants to give. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">It&rsquo;s pretty straightforward: &ldquo;I love Jesus, and I want to act like him and be like him; I want to help others,&rdquo; Jesse says. <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44313\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44313\" style=\"width: 336px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-44313 size-story-feed lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/email\/met3\/spacer.gif\" alt=\"Whenever his family receives the Gift Catalog in the mail, Jesse carefully studies it to determine what he wants to give.\" width=\"336\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Donor_Jesse-Klaasen-8_Crop-336x240.jpg 336w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Donor_Jesse-Klaasen-8_Crop-640x457.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Donor_Jesse-Klaasen-8_Crop-200x143.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Donor_Jesse-Klaasen-8_Crop-793x566.jpg 793w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Donor_Jesse-Klaasen-8_Crop-850x607.jpg 850w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Donor_Jesse-Klaasen-8_Crop.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Donor_Jesse-Klaasen-8_Crop-336x240.jpg\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whenever his family receives the Gift Catalog in the mail, Jesse carefully studies it to determine what he wants to give. (&copy;2018 photo courtesy of Carrie Klaasen)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Back in winter 2015, he had set the goal to gift one of the big-ticket items in the catalog. &ldquo;I was just flipping through and was like, &lsquo;I wanna get that one,&rsquo;&rdquo; Jesse says. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">He made a point not to tell anyone he was saving for it. Every time he got a paycheck, he would take a portion out and add it to the growing pile of money inside a hollowed-out book on his bedroom shelf. Right before his 16th birthday in January 2018, Jesse gathered his pile of bills worth $4,500, singled out one of the most expensive items &mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/donate.worldvision.org\/give\/home-for-a-mother-and-children?campaign=31413214\" rel=\"noopener\">the house<\/a> &mdash; and donated the money to World Vision to provide a house for someone in need. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">&ldquo;I was really excited,&rdquo; Jesse says. &ldquo;Holding that much money was just crazy. It was a stack.&rdquo; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Jesse&rsquo;s mom, Carrie Klaasen, says she found out he was saving for a big Gift Catalog purchase about a year before it happened &mdash; almost two years after he set out to do it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">&ldquo;When he commits to something, he&rsquo;s going to do it,&rdquo; Carrie says. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s got a compassionate heart.&rdquo; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Jesse acknowledged he could have used the money to buy a much nicer vehicle or phone. His noisy 2001 Chevrolet Blazer could have benefited from a new muffler. He stuck with his aging flip phone until he got a smartphone as a gift. And he says he was tempted numerous times to pull out a few $20 bills from that book on his shelf and go spend it. But his resolve to love God and love people helped him resist. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">&ldquo;I was just ready to do this,&rdquo; he says. <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44311\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44311\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-44311 size-custom-small lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/email\/met3\/spacer.gif\" alt=\"Jesse, 16, worked on a cattle farm in western Michigan and saved his paychecks for three years to pay for a home for a struggling mother and her children through World Vision&rsquo;s Gift Catalog.\" width=\"360\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Donor_Jesse-Klaasen-1-360x640.jpg 360w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Donor_Jesse-Klaasen-1-141x250.jpg 141w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Donor_Jesse-Klaasen-1-135x240.jpg 135w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Donor_Jesse-Klaasen-1-319x566.jpg 319w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Donor_Jesse-Klaasen-1-428x760.jpg 428w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Donor_Jesse-Klaasen-1.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Donor_Jesse-Klaasen-1-360x640.jpg\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jesse, 16, on a cattle farm in western Michigan. (&copy;2018 photo courtesy of Carrie Klaasen)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">That heart full of compassion has always been there, Carrie says. Jesse started sponsoring two children when he was 11 &mdash; one in Honduras and one in <a href=\"\/our-work\/country-profiles\/ethiopia\">Ethiopia<\/a>. But his sense of compassion deepened after his parents brought his first sister home from Ethiopia that same year. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">&ldquo;I was just so excited and so happy,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;They came home, and I held her on the couch. I was crying and was just so happy to have her here.&rdquo; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">And then he visited Ethiopia in 2015 when the family adopted his two other sisters. It opened his eyes to a different culture, to poverty, and got the then-13-year-old asking profound questions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Seeing his siblings&rsquo; home country for the first time was overwhelming for him, Carrie remembers. She sensed something change inside Jesse. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">&ldquo;I remember him just taking it all in and thinking, &lsquo;Why isn&rsquo;t this me? I could be going through this, and I&rsquo;m not,&rsquo;&rdquo; she says. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">That experience is part of what motivates him. Even after he sent in his big donation, Jesse says he remains committed to the unknown family who will receive his gift. &ldquo;I pray for them every day,&rdquo; Jesse says. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been praying that the right family gets it &mdash; that they can just praise God for it and give him thanks for it.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse, 16, saved his paychecks for nearly three years to build a home for a struggling woman and her children through the World Vision Gift Catalog. 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