If anybody has been paying attention to by blog the past few days, particularly my links, they will have noticed my newest link is to Compassion International. I love this organization. During a mission conference at Briercrest a representative was there with the profiles of many children awaiting sponsorship. I looked through each one wondering about the lives of these children; if they had enough to eat, or a warm clean house to live in, or access to an education. How could I chose just one? But I did. I chose a little boy from Honduras. That was eight years ago. Through the years I/we have gone through periods of unemployment, one income – sometimes not much more than minimum wage. God has always provided enough for us to give to our little guy. What we gave was but a small portion of our income – what was given to Luis was much more priceless.
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Compassion is an organization that understands both needs of children and families; physical and spiritual sustenance and provision. With the $32 monthly donation the child is provided with access to an education, better food, and health care. This is all done through local churches where the children are also taught the gospel. When you sponsor a child you also get to correspond with your child. In the letters that I get from Luis he is always full of praises to God, and always tells me he loves me and is praying for me. Sponsorship through Compassion really is priceless!
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This week several sponsors are visiting families, children and communities where Compassion has impacted and blogging about it. It is well worth the ten or fifteen minutes it will take out of your day to check out some of these links and read about the work of Compassion – to be convinced if you are not already that sponsorship does make a difference. In many cases, an eternal one.
A Tale of Two Houses – by The Pioneer Woman’s Husband, Marlboro Man
When Need and Ability Collide – by Brian Seay at A Simple Journey
Yes We Can – by Shaun Groves at Shlog: Section B
Dominican Diaries: Day 3 – by Challies Jr
Domincan Republic – God’s Hidden Gifts – by Challies.com
A Room Full of Hope – by Mary at Owlhaven
Thirty-two dollars AND . . . – by Jennifer at 5 minutes for Mom
The Irony is that I’m eating Oreos right now – by Melanie at Big Mama
“She opens her arms to the poor and extends her hands to the needy.” Proverbs 31:20
I love that picture you posted with the scripture.
Bless you for using your voice for the children and their families who live in poverty.
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I’m so glad that we give money to this . I would much rather give money for this purpose than helping a ‘church’ pay for its gym or extra nice hardwood floors in the fellowship hall or some such thing.
I admire you so much for being so concerned for the poor.
I also admire you for being concerned for the poor. I think you always had a compassionate heart for the less fortunate.
I want to share something that happened when you kids were little. We were watching a tv program about hungry children, I think it was World Vision. When we saw the skinny, hungry, poor children, we were moved to tears. You cried to me to phone in and sponsor one of those little children. It also made me feel guilty because you kids were always well fed and chubby and had everything you needed. So I called in and sponsored children for about twelve years. I now sponsor with Compassion Canada, a little girl, Glenda, from El Salvador. She also writes me letters and tells me she loves me and is very grateful for my sponsorship. Last Christmas she sent me a picture with her proudly holding up her Christmas present from me, new clothes – a pair of jeans, shirt and “pony tails”. She was very proud of them. I recently got a letter from her telling me she was very sad because her daddy had just passed away. That brought me to tears. Anyways, I think I get more out of this sponsorship than she does.
Keep the the excellent work, you are doing a good job.
Mom, I guess all those comments of “eat your dinner, there are starving children in Ethiopa” paid off! I do it to my girls too.