December 29, 2011 – We recommend the following. However, please remember that absolutely everything we publish is worth reading.

• What Can I Share in Letters to My Sponsored Child?
• You Can Copy These Sample Letters!
• What Does Poverty Mean?
• What is Poverty?
• Can I Send This Gift to My Sponsored Child?
• Changes to Our Letter-Writing Process
• Got Questions?
• How Do I Share Holiday Traditions With My Sponsored Child?
• Developed-World Tantrums
• How do Cross Cultural Differences Affect Letter Writing?
• Are We Worth Your Trust and Money?
• Who Do You Say We Are?
• 10 Ways to Choose Which Child to Sponsor
• The Mystery of the Blue Corner
• How Do We Decide Which Churches to Partner With?
• The Latest OurCompassion Feature – Child Development Center Pages
• How Important Are Sponsor Letters?
• You’re More Than a Sponsor
• Who Translates Your Letters?
• Where’s the Poverty?
• What Is Child Sponsorship All About?
• How Do You Stay Passionate About Letter Writing?
• What Is Geotagging, and What Does It Have to Do With My Sponsored Child?
• How Do You Stay in Your Child’s World?
• Can my sponsored child visit me?
• Keeping Up With the Joneses
• Got Any Great Fundraising Ideas?
• Why Do Child Development Centers Close?
• Can My Sponsored Child’s Siblings Be Sponsored, Too?
• How Does Our Partnership With Local Churches Really Work?
• What Is Life Like In … ?
• How Does Our Letter Translation Process Work?
• How are children told that they have been sponsored? (two posts)
• Tour a church and child development center in Guatemala
• Your sponsored child prays for you (two posts)
• This is what your sponsored child wants to hear from you (two posts)
• How do we teach the children in our programs?
• The Colors of Poverty (eight photo galleries)
• When a child leaves our sponsorship program
• One way you can help make your financial contributions go further and do more
• How is our child sponsorship program different than “regular” schooling?
• Answers to frequently asked questions about giving a gift to your sponsored child
• Your sponsored child’s photo: What does it tell you?
• How long does my sponsorship last?
• How is my money used each month?
• Why do my sponsored child’s letters seem so impersonal?
• Three things all sponsors should know
• Why can’t I communicate with my sponsored child via Facebook?
• What should I do if my sponsored child contacts me via Facebook?
• Why do children leave the sponsorship program?
• What happens when a child leaves the sponsorship program?
• What does my sponsored child learn at the child development center?
• How do we choose which children to register in our child sponsorship program?
• Does giving gifts to our sponsored children make a difference?
• What impact does giving a family gift have in a child’s life?
• Do sponsored children have expectations of their sponsors?
• Where do you sponsor a child? Connect with people who sponsor children in the same development center as you do.
• Should I Visit My Sponsored Child … or is the money better used for something else?
• What is it like to meet your sponsored child for the first time?
• View country maps showing the locations of our child development centers
• Are my letters really that important?
• Letter Writing Ideas, a forum for ideas on how to keep correspondence with your sponsored child fresh, educational and exciting
• Letter Writing Ideas from graduates of our Leadership Development Program
• Write your child the second Friday of every month
• Write to a Child: a post to answer your questions about becoming a child correspondent
• Funny Things Kids Say … What puzzling, quirky, amusing things have your sponsored children written in their letters to you?
• Why Does My Sponsored Child Look So Scared?
• Why does it take so long to hear if my child was affected by a crisis? What is involved in the crisis reporting process?
• Crisis Updates: Subscribe to a Compassion RSS Feed … stay informed about what’s going on in your sponsored child’s country
• Disaster Relief Kit: What’s Inside? … In the aftermath of a disaster, what do we typically include in our immediate response disaster relief kits?
• How do we introduce children in poverty to a Christian education?
• What’s involved with opening a child development center
• How do you grieve the loss of a sponsored child?
• Always About Jesus … CEO Wess Stafford talks about the history of our marketing message and why it will always be about Jesus.
• Foster Development, Not Dependence
• The Last Mile: How Our AIDS Initiative Works
• Child Survival 101: How our Child Survival Program works
• Compassion International is not a child sponsorship organization
• Child Development vs. Community Development … a video explaining why Compassion focuses on the former
• The poor will NOT always be with us (multiple posts)
• Equipping the Church: an explanation of our partnership with the local church in the developing world
• What we believe