Over the last two months, we have spent a lot of blog time talking about love – love for our spouse, love for our children, and love for our friends. Today I would like to share with you a way to show love for someone you may never meet. Before I do, I would like to introduce you to two special family members.
We also sponsor a little girl named Brigida. She is our daughters Ecuadorian twin! When we began sponsoring Brigida, she was only five years old and the picture of her on the internet was of her with her hip cocked out to the side, her hand on her hip all sassy-like, and the most ornery grin you have ever seen - just like our little lady. We knew she was the girl we needed to sponsor as soon as we saw her!
This Valentine’s Day, I would like you and your family to consider showing love to a child living in extreme poverty by sponsoring a child through Compassion International. When you sponsor a child, you are linked with one particular child who will know your name, write to you, and treasure the thought that you care. He or she will pray for you and write to you. Sponsoring a child through Compassion International only costs $38 dollars a month and connects your child with a loving, church-based child sponsorship program that provides:
* Food and clean water
* Medical care
* Educational opportunities
* Important life-skills training
* Most important of all, your sponsored child will hear about Jesus Christ and be encouraged to develop a lifelong relationship with God.
When you choose to sponsor a child, you can visit the Compassion International website and look through all the pictures of children waiting to be sponsored. After you choose one (or more) you will receive your child's photo, personal story, and a child sponsorship packet by mail in approximately fifteen days.
When children find out they've been sponsored, the joy they feel is indescribable. While I have never seen a child's face when they find out they have been sponsored, I have experienced, through my husband, the extreme joy in meeting our sponsor children for the first time. My dh went to Ecuador in the summer of 2008 and Peru in the summer of 2009 and got to meet and spend the day with our two sponsor children. The coolest thing to me was that the children knew who my dh was before he was introduced to them. When they arrived at the meeting place, the two children tore off running for my husband - just like our children do when daddy comes home. That shows me that our sponsor children, through our letters and pictures, have gotten to know us. For a sponsored child, knowing that someone across the globe cares for and about them means more than we can imagine.
What I like about sponsoring children living on the fringe of society is seeing the relationship that my children have developed with our sponsor children. They speak often of Abuid and Brigida and pray for them daily. They are conscientious of the fact that Abuid and Brigida do not have all the things that we have and know that they live in poverty. Their prayers include requests for warm beds, food in their bellies, and good health. Through child sponsorship, my children are learning about caring for those less fortunate, which we hope is a lesson they will carry with them into their adult lives.
Sponsoring a child will profoundly change the future for your sponsor child and will change your own life and that of your family's as well. Give a child hope for the future — and for all eternity. Sponsor a child today!
Your Girlfriend,
Michelle
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