SECRET DECODER RING
With this awesome gadget, you’ll crack secret codes and uncover hidden messages right inside this magazine!
Make Your Decoder Ring:
- Adult help needed. Download and print the decoder ring below. Carefully cut out the purple, blue and yellow rings.
- Use a brad or paper clip to poke a hole through the middle of each ring and hold them together with the purple ring on the bottom, blue ring in the middle, and yellow ring on the top.
- Now you need the key! The key shows you how to uncover the secret message. It is an emoji and a letter like this: C.
- Turn the yellow ring to select the emoji and then turn the purple ring to line up the key letter. Once the key emoji and letter are lined up, don’t move the rings.
- To decode a message, find each letter on the purple ring and write down the blue letter under it!

CAN YOU CRACK THESE THREE SECRET CODES?
Complete these sentences: I am ...
Your next mission, should you choose to accept it, is to remind someone else how precious and strong they are in God’s eyes. Keep spreading the word, one truth at a time!
DETECTIVE CODE BREAKER
Poverty is the ultimate bad guy. It tricks kids into thinking their dreams are too big and out of reach. It whispers that they’re too small, too forgotten and not enough. That they’ll never grow strong or chase their biggest dreams. You might have felt this way sometimes too.
But here’s the truth: Every kid is amazing in God’s eyes and full of potential — no matter what challenges they face. Now it’s time to reveal the truth!
Use your decoder ring skills to solve the secret messages in this story about rooms all around the world!