Compassion is my daddy
July 27, 2011 | Compassion International, Faith: Knowing Christ
It was only a year and a half ago that I traveled to Ecuador with Compassion International.
I was a sponsor before I made the trip, but I became a voice for Compassion after. I couldn’t help it.
- Abraham is one of the P31 team’s beautiful sponsored children in Ecuador
All because of a young man named Jonathan. His bio father left him because of drinking, so his mother started praying. “Send Jonathan a good daddy.”
At the age of five he was sponsored through Compassion International. They fed him. They schooled him. They showed him Jesus.
As I sat and talked with Jonathan, he told me that he had graduated high school, college, and was a math professor. He could teach in a large university, except he chose to teach in a small project school in one of the poorest communities in Ecuador–where he himself was raised.
“Compassion was my daddy,” he said.
Today Jonathan sponsors his own Compassion child from Ecuador. What a beautiful example of seeds planted. Not just money. Not just time. Not just prayer. But a community affected; a cycle of poverty broken because someone sponsored a young man who needed a daddy. And now that same young man is reaching other boys with the same prayer.
Are you looking for an opportunity to change the life of a child? Will you consider partnering with one of the most respected organizations I have ever had an opportunity to associate with? I’m blown away by their integrity, and that they are one of the highest rated charities, Christian or otherwise, in the world.
When I think about Compassion, I think about many things: Jonathan and the boy he’s now sponsoring and the children he’s teaching. I think about Buli, my Compassion sponsored child who lives in the busy streets of India. And Abraham, one of the children sponsored by the P31 team t
hat I got to spend time with in Ecuador.
All who were fed, clothed, and loved by ordinary people who stepped in as “daddies”.
Will you be an answer to that prayer? To find out what it means to sponsor a child and to view children who need food, clean water, and education right now, click here.
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