Recommended Posts

October 30, 2009 – We recommend the following. However, please remember that absolutely everything we publish is worth reading.

• Highly Vulnerable Children: How Do We Help Them? – October 28, 2009; Highly Vulnerable Children: What Special Needs Do They Have? – December 11, 2008
• Is the Ability to Eliminate Poverty Just a Matter of Priorities? – October 17, 2009
• Is the Ability to Eliminate Poverty Just a Matter of Interpretation? – October 14, 2009
• Can We Eliminate Poverty or Not? – October 12, 2009
• Historic registrations: The 50,000 Registered Child in the Philippines – October 1, 2009; The 50,000 Registered Child in Tanzania – April 16, 2008
• Does Giving Gifts to Our Sponsored Children Make a Difference? – September 28, 2009
• Always About Jesus … CEO Wess Stafford talks about the history of our marketing message and why it will always be about Jesus. – September 9, 2009
• Funny Things Kids Say … What puzzling, quirky, amusing things have your sponsored children written in their letters to you? – September 2, 2009
• Death of a Child … How do you mourn a sponsored child’s death? – August 31, 2009
• Child Focused: Valuing the One … We place value on children simply because God does. – August 18, 2009
• One Day in the Life of a Tours and Visits Team Leader – Part I: August 5, 2009 – Part II: August 6, 2009
• What Does Holistic Child Development Look Like? – August 3, 2009
• Personalized Poverty Video: This imitation news video will individually feature your friends as the person who sponsors the last child living in extreme poverty. – July 29, 2009
• Foster Development, Not Dependence – July 24, 2009
• Child Survival: The Motive Behind Our Effort – July 22, 2009
• Child Survival 101: How our Child Survival Program works – July 21, 2009
• Photos of children reading letters from their sponsors – Part I: December 4, 2008 – Part II: July 14, 2009
• Ti Chape means little survivor or one who has escaped death. – July 13, 2009
• Disaster Relief Kit: What’s Inside? … In the aftermath of a disaster, what do we typically include in our immediate response disaster relief kits? – June 24, 2009
• Joined Together Thinking … our new Web site to more easily connect you with people who sponsor children in the same country or child development center as your child. – June 22, 2009
• The Lie of Poverty is a Double-Edged Sword … Poverty tells children in need “You Don’t Matter,” and it tells the sponsor “Your sponsorship doesn’t matter.” – June 11, 2009
• Child Sponsorship: What Happens When a Child Leaves the Program? – June 3, 2009
• A New Day for Kamrul … the third installment in a series of posts about A Day in the Life of a Bangladeshi Cycle Van Driver – June 1, 2009
• One Million Children Sponsored – May 20, 2009
• Write to a Child: a post to answer your questions about becoming a child correspondent – May 19, 2009
• The Impact of Letter Writing – May 5, 2009
• View country maps showing the locations of our child development centers – April 30, 2009
• The Lowdown on Reciprocal Letter Writing … Should I get a letter in response to every letter I write? – April 29, 2009
• Where Do You Sponsor a Child? Connect with people who sponsor children in the same development center as you do. – March 20, 2009
• Opening a Child Development Center – March 17, 2009
• Sponsorship in Six Words … read how other sponsors summed up their sponsorship experiences in six words or less – February 25, 2009
• The Story of Compassion … a video blog post from Wess Stafford about how Compassion began – February 23, 2009
• Letter Writing Ideas, a forum for ideas on how to keep correspondence with your sponsored child fresh, educational and exciting- February 6, 2009
• Crisis Updates: Subscribe to a Compassion RSS Feed … stay informed about what’s going on in your sponsored child’s country – February 6, 2009
• Your E-mail Signature Block Can Help Get Children Sponsored – October 27, 2008
• Wess Stafford Goes to Washington – September 29, 2008
• Where Should I Sponsor a Child? – September 4, 2008
• Math Olympiad … A post written by a volunteer at the Semillitas de Fe Student Center in Guatemala City, Guatemala – September 2, 2008
• My Sisters Are Sponsored. What About Me? – August 8, 2008
• Should I Visit My Sponsored Child … or is the money better used for something else? – August 4, 2008
• Why We Can’t End Poverty- July 15, 2008
• A Message to Mothers – July 2, 2008
• Poverty’s Shame … “For you, when you help take care of our children, is it easy for you, or is it a sacrifice?” – June 30, 2008
• Child Development vs. Community Development … a video explaining why Compassion focuses on the former – June 21, 2008
• Inside the Letter Writing Process in Ghana – June 13, 2008
• Dear Good Samaritans … a letter from a Muslim caregiver of a sponsored child – June 3, 2008
• CEO Wess Stafford speaks about his salary – May 30, 2008
• Dear Sponsor: A Letter From Rwanda – May 22, 2008
• Have you ever wondered how your sponsored child’s letter gets to you? Join us on The Journey of One Letter – May 21, 2008
• Are My Letters Really That Important? – May 20, 2008
• Why Does My Sponsored Child Look So Scared? – May 3, 2008
• Who Writes the Compassion Blog? A Bunch of Marketing Cheerleaders? – April 24, 2008
• Equipping the Church: an explanation of our partnership with the local church in the developing world – April 7, 2008
• Proof … that sponsorship makes a difference – April 2, 2008
• Focus on the Forest … A slideshow of child artwork hanging in our Global Ministry Center – March 26, 2008

• Posts celebrating our 1 millionth sponsored child
• What Are You Going to Do? – A series of blog posts where our CEO, Wess Stafford, and other leaders within our ministry talk about Compassion’s past and future.
• Wess Speaks – A series of posts where our CEO, Wess Stafford, answers the questions you asked him.
• Our 10 Questions and My Best Day in Ministry series – Interviews with Compassion employees in the developing world, our executive leadership and persons of note associated with Compassion.
• Posts about our organizational structure.

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