to live free: give, then give againThere was a time when I was stingy.
I said it, stingy.
I gave, sometimes even sacrificially, but the act of giving had zero connection to my heart.
The Bible said that God can change my heart, so I took Him up on it.
Buli’s blanketThe letter sat in my mailbox. Buli! I grabbed it and sat on the porch to read it.
Buli is the beautiful little girl I sponsor through Compassion. She lives in India.
Buli turned 7 this June. I sent a small monetary gift to her to celebrate her birthday. This is what her compassion worker had to say:
Dear Suzie, Buli wants to thank you for her birthday gift. She was so excited because she was able to buy a blanket, a tiffin box (a tin lunch box for school), and a bar of chocolate. It is very cold in the nights and Buli is able to wrap in her warm blanket.
Buli wrote underneath in her sweet hand these words : I love my blanket. It is so warm. Thank you for allowing me to sleep under a blanket at night. Buli (more…)
Compassion is my daddyIt 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.
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. (more…)
Buli dancedI received a letter from my sweet Buli, my Compassion child, this weekend. She’s 6 now. Growing up. Her translator started the letter with these words:
Buli danced. (more…)
why I love Compassion
JAVIER’S STORY
After a three-day drinking binge, Mario lay in bed, unable to get up. No medicine could help him now as he vomited and his fever raged. Years of drinking were taking a toll.
His 8-year-old son, Javier, however, was sure he had the cure. Since registering in Compassion’s sponsorship program through a local church, Javier learned that God had a special purpose for him. (more…)
Compassion update: AchileI just found out that a child desperately needs help, greater than his Compassion sponsor’s monthly donations can give. Achile is an 8-year-old boy in Burkina Faso with a congenital heart defect known as tetralogy of Fallot. He has been in pain for five years and hasn’t been able to attend school regularly and receive the full of benefit of his sponsorships.
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