Category: Disease

Christian Community Outreach in Bolivia

  Church La Capilla 20 de Mayo began in 2004 under a small shade tree on the street, with some borrowed chairs and a lot of enthusiasm from neighborhood children. At the time, Pastor Raul was a youth pastor at another church in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. He began visiting the Normandia neighborhood to spend some time with the children, sharing the [...]

September Newsletter 4th Annual Fall Cleaning

The Love Alliance Newsletter #39 www.thelovealliance.net September 1, 2010 School has started or is soon approaching along with fall.  We can’t believe it is September already, which means that it is time for our Fourth Annual Fall Cleaning. Check out this month’s Action Project below for more information. LAST MONTH – HAPPENINGS Last month marked [...]

Pink

Pink is associated with purity, love and compassion. It communicates gentleness and freshness. Pink represents good health and life, which you offer to children in poverty. My Account l Sponsor a Child l Help Babies and Moms l Crisis Updates Read full original post.

Photo from the field: Gahondo, Rwanda

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Video: Ndola, Zambia

Video from Ndola, Zambia on Blood:Water’s work with its local partner & the community from Russell Brownley on Vimeo. Read full original post.

A Big-picture Perspective

Today, I would like to introduce you to my fellow contact center employee, Becky. I spoke with her recently and our conversation was such a source of encouragement to me, I wanted to share it with you. Becky is going through a difficult time right now. Her husband has survived cancer twice, but the doctors [...]

What Does Isaiah 58 Have to Do With Poverty?

How does Isaiah 58 relate to extreme poverty? How does it relate to oppression and corruption? Does Isaiah 58 have anything to do with these topics? How about its relevance to how we serve the Lord today? What are your thoughts? 1 Shout it aloud, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet. [...]

How Do We Teach the Children in Our Programs?

Our holistic child development model is central to our mission of releasing children from poverty in Jesus’ name. And the curriculum standards we have put in place in all of our programs are key to achieving this goal. In recent years, we developed a global curriculum to help develop children holistically — physically, spiritually, cognitively [...]

Ending child marriage

Tens of millions of girls in the world are married while still children, many before puberty and often to much older men. Read full original post.

Purple

Purple is associated with royalty. It symbolizes wisdom, nobility and ambition. It communicates wealth and extravagance. But it’s also the color of dignity – something you’re helping give to children in poverty. My Account l Sponsor a Child l Help Babies and Moms l Crisis Updates Read full original post.

How Young Is Too Young to Sponsor a Child?

Compassion has sponsorship booths at hundreds of events across the country throughout the year. Some of those booths are at events specifically for teens. Working in the contact center, I sometimes speak with parents whose teen sponsored a child at one of these events. The parents are often concerned that their teen will not be [...]

What Your Sponsored Child Wants to Hear From You

Sponsored children are very grateful and consider themselves blessed to have sponsors who love them and write to them. The children are touched by the affection you express to them in your letters and the prayers you share with them. They like when you pray for them and ask them to pray for you in return. [...]

Discovering Child Advocacy

Several years ago when I started sponsoring a child through Compassion, I thought I was doing a good thing. I made a small but noticeable donation to a nonprofit doing great work. Some little kid in India had a better life, I felt good for caring for the poor, the kid probably felt better because [...]

Orange

Orange is a bold invigorating color suggesting strength, endurance and success. It represents enthusiasm, encouragement and determination. It is the banner of success carried by children released from poverty in Jesus’ name. My Account l Sponsor a Child l Help Babies and Moms l Crisis Updates Read full original post.

Photo from the field: well repair

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