Valeri Bure Skates for Compassion Canada on CBC’s “Battle of the Blades”
By Compassion Canada | Categories: Join the Cause
Watch Battle of the Blades on CBC every week. NHL great Valeri Bure (of the Calgary Flames), is competing this year—and has named Compassion Canada as his charity! If you think his performance is the best, vote for Valeri and his partner every Sunday night by email, text or phone.
The past three Monday’s we’ve given away free Compassion tee shirts, and today is no different. Coming to you live from the Compassion store, where you can purchase an identical twin if you like – a shirt, not a person – is our Make a Difference tee.
The tee shirt up for grabs is the…
Week three of the Compassion Tee Party is here. And because yesterday was Mother’s Day, we’re ponying up a free Child Survival Program tee shirt – to celebrate moms and the children they care for.
Visit the Compassion store to discover the meaning of the Hindi phrase on the shirt, then leave a comment letting…
Welcome to your latest chance to win a free Compassion tee shirt. This week our tee party headliner is this fashionable gem, the Compassion Fade Tee.
Visit the Compassion store to see the tee work its fade magic altogether in one image. And while there, it’d be okay if you liked it so much…
What do you see when you look at this word cloud created from last week’s blog posts?
We see a fish, think ichthys and chuckle that even a random algorithm gets our spiritual inspiration.
Tell us what connection you make from the Wordle word cloud and you’ll be entered to win this Compassion tee shirt.…
Download Our New Browser Toolbar for Quick Access to All Things Compassion
By Web Team | Categories: For New Sponsors, Join the Cause
It’s here! The official Compassion International browser toolbar.
And this matters to you because the toolbar will help you stay connected with your sponsored child and our ministry much more easily.
Do You Sponsor a Child in El Salvador?
By Web Team | Categories: Country Trips, Join the Cause
More specifically, do you sponsor a child in one of these three child development centers in El Salvador?
ES526, Bethel Student Center
ES808, Cachorros de León Student Center
ES782, Comisión de Amor Student Center
If you do sponsor a child in one of those three centers, let us know. These are the centers that the CompassionBloggers will visit…
A Lesson on Life, Courtesy of OurCompassion
By Katy Causey | Categories: Join the Cause, Sponsors and Donors
It’s a scary, beautiful road when we leave the comfort of the familiar to forge a new path.
For two years, I worked as an assistant for the International Program Group Communications team. I had an incredible boss who encouraged me to pursue my passions. I flourished under his leadership as I learned more about my…
America’s Giving Challenge: Please Participate on Behalf of Compassion International
By Web Team | Categories: Child Survival, Join the Cause, Sponsors and Donors
UPDATED Oct. 16
Make a donation to Compassion International through our Facebook Cause.
The 2009 America’s Giving Challenge has begun, and through the Giving Challenge, the Case Foundation will give away a total of $170,000 in daily and overall prizes to non-profits over the next month.
America’s Giving Challenge offers Compassion a great opportunity to…
Our friends at Kerusso, creators of this incredibly fine-looking Live for Him apparel*, have offered up some T-shirts for this little thing we’re doing.
Beginning later today and continuing through Friday, October 2, we will periodically update our Facebook fan page status with questions about this here blog.
If you answer the question correctly and are…
Submissions Wanted for Compassion Kids’ Magazine
By Web Team | Categories: Join the Cause, Sponsors and Donors
Last week we asked if you’d be interested in receiving a Compassion magazine for kids ages 8 to 12. Many of you said, “Absolutely!”
Because of your responses, we’re moving forward and mailing our first issue this January.
And now, we’re inviting your kids to submit the following materials for a chance to be published in the…
Can Twitter Help Get Kids Sponsored?
By Web Team | Categories: Child Sponsorship, Join the Cause
Let’s find out.
Beginning today and continuing through this Friday (Sept. 25), we will send out tweets about specific children in need of sponsors.
And we’d like you to retweet them for us.
When you do, you’ll be eligible to win your choice of some free Live for Him* apparel:
T-shirts
caps
rings
wristbands
Every retweet counts as an entry, and…
The Social Cause Diet: Submit Your Sponsorship Story
By Web Team | Categories: Join the Cause, Sponsors and Donors
Hello. My name is Gail Perry Johnston. I’m an author, art director and speaker … and a wife and mother of two.
I started sponsoring children when I was 14. Now close to 50, that’s a lot of years of making a difference in kids’ lives with relatively little effort, thanks to Compassion and…
“All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need.” – Acts 2:44-45 (NIV)
In today’s world, that’s out of the ordinary. Unfortunately, society preaches the opposite: More is better! People seem to acquire more “things” that they seem to hold onto with…
Do Not Show Partiality to the Poor
If you hang around here a lot, you’re probably familiar with verses like these:
“He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.” – Proverbs 14:31 (NIV)
Or one of my personal favorites:
“‘He defended the cause of the poor…
Hey! Look what I’ve done. I made poverty history. Woo hoo!
All I did was visit compassion.com to sponsor a child and then this happened.
Oooo! Aaaah! Isn’t this Compassion cap positively divine?
You can have one, if you want.
Just share your Twitter @ with us. Or your Facebook URL.
Your MySpace URL is good too.
Got a blog? That URL is welcome here.
And if you don’t have any of that? Just leave a comment.
On Monday,…
Tomorrow is Independence Day in the U.S., and we’ve got just the post in our archives for you to read. Consider it the ketchup on your hot dog, the perfect accompaniment for any Fourth of July BBQ.
A Child in the Midst
What if a child had been in the room during the penning of the Declaration…
Last week, we published a short post about a recent sponsor tour to India. It was written by our India communications manager for the India country office’s internal newsletter, and it reminded us about this old post on sponsor tours:
A Field Perspective on Sponsor Tours
This e-mail from Samuel Llanes, our field communication specialist in…
Do you ever feel as if you are on the cusp of something big? Do you wrestle with restlessness in your spirit that you can neither calm nor pinpoint a reason for? It’s as if you feel that you, your life, is on the brink of something, a major change or transition; like something…
Arpita’s Miracle
Last summer, heavy rains poured into the village where 12-year-old Arpita lives. The ground, already saturated from previous rains, left nowhere else for the waters to go … so the entire village flooded. Muddy water, one foot deep, filled Arpita’s home.
When you live in extreme poverty, access to clean water is hard to…
For those of you who are new here, we’ve hand-selected a few of the older posts from our archives for you to read, respond to, chew on, digest, enjoy, etc.
Are You for Real?
It’s after work and I’m in my business casual, walking through the mall having just bought a not-so-scrumptious dinner of Sbarro’s pizza…
Alexander Needs Heart Surgery
By Chris Giovagnoni | Categories: Complementary Interventions, Join the Cause
Have you ever heard of Atrial Septal Defect (ASD)? Apparently, it’s a congenital heart defect.
If you have a defect in your interatrial septum, the tissue that divides the right side of your heart from the left side, your blood can get confused. And if that happens, you end up with blood that goes…
Hey! See that square thing on the left? The box with the blue “kid” in it. We call him “Skippy.”
Anyway, that thing is a gravatar … a globally recognized avatar. It’s an image, associated with your e-mail address, that follows you across the Web.
Gravatars help identify your posts and comments on blogs, in…
Since April 26, and through May 2, five bloggers have been experiencing firsthand what Compassion’s ministry to children in poverty is all about.
Visit compassionbloggers.com to travel across the world to the impoverished neighborhoods of Kolkata, East India, and through their stories, pictures and videos rediscover hope.
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