Being an artist myself, the artwork the children draw for me is very special. Josselyn recently sent me a drawing of a dog that covered one entire side of her letter. It warms my heart that she spent so much time to send me this special greeting!
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I am always touched when I receive a letter from one of these children. The common thread across all the children’s letters is letting me know how much they love me and thanking me for being their sponsor. They also tell me they are praying for me and my family. I am supporting them through my sponsorship dollars, communications and prayers. They are uplifting me through their communications and prayers. It’s the way we stay connected!
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Thinking of all the little children waiting for a sponsor … (mural from The Compassion Experience)
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Enough said here …(found hanging at The Compassion Experience)
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I am excited to announce that I have just added four little girls from Ecuador to my sponsorships! I am so thankful to be able to sponsor them. As with the others I sponsor, the children’s real names will not be used. On this site, their names will be Josselyn, Daniela, Gabriela J and Gabriela N. I look forward to sharing more about them in future posts!
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Today I received a sweet card in the mail from Compassion International wishing me a ‘Happy Sponsor-versary’. The card included a picture of the first child I began to sponsor slightly over a year ago — Fredeline.
It was a special reminder of some of the tangible services that my sponsorship dollars have helped to provide for the children I support which include, as noted in the card, “medical checkups, nutritious meals, health and hygiene training, educational opportunities, and most of all — the hope of Jesus Christ.”
I have a joyful feeling whenever I think of the children I support. I have absolutely no regrets for the decision I made to support Fredeline and the others. The ‘Thank You’ card I received today is a nice reminder, but I have been receiving heartwarming Thank You’s all year in the form of the children’s letters to me. By my focusing on these children and wanting them to be blessed by my sponsorships of them, I too have been especially blessed!
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When choosing a child to support, there are no wrong choices. Each child needs someone to care enough to sponsor them through our gifts and communications to them. When I peruse through the potential children to support on Compassion’s website, there are so many cute little ones. Each young child certainly needs a sponsor. What I am appealing to today are the older ones, perhaps the not so lovely in pictures. These children won’t need our support for as many years in the future, but they need our help as much or perhaps more than the youngest children. Two of the nine children whom I support are at least fifteen years old. These two girls are the ones that are best able to send me letters which have always been very heartfelt. One lives in Haiti and one lives in Uganda. Because they require no assistance in writing their letters (except for translation), I have been able to get to know their own thoughts and have gotten to know them better than the younger ones whom I support. Each girl tells me that they pray for me and my family. They tell me their dreams and they tell me how thankful they are for me and my support.
So if you are considering supporting a child, whether it is your first or next child, please consider the older children. They need us too.
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Hasn’t she grown and isn’t she beautiful?
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My Compassion Children 