For the month of September, these blogs were the heavy hitters for the referral race.
all in His design – 70 visits
Girls Just Want to Have Fun – 70 visits
5 Minutes for Parenting – 69 visits, on the back of Kelly @ LoveWell. She writes a post every Wednesday at 5 Minutes for Parenting.
Pensieve – 65…
One hundred and thirty eight Compassion advocates from the United States and countless other advocates from around the world will be gathering in the Dominican Republic from October 5 to October 11 for the first-ever Global Advocates Tour…And we want to do our best to bring the experience to you!
Beginning slightly before…
Hey! Remember way back in mid-August when we asked you to join our Flickr group and to upload photos.
Do you remember that we also said, “It’s time to change our banner. And we want the next photo up there to be yours.”?
Well…we did. And you did.
22 people joined the group. (And we still have room…
Hello friends! Glad you’re here.
I haven’t met all of ya yet, but I do knows a lot of ya. If you’re new to our blog, please leave a comment, I’d consider it a privilege to make your acquaintance.
So that you feel welcome, let me introduce you to a few of the folks who are…
Uh, yeah. Hi. How ya doing?
Umm…oh, this is so hard. It’s kind of embarrassing.
We have a friend, who has a blog and all, and we were wondering…uh, he was wondering if you’d be interested and willing to promote our his blog on your site.
We He made some blog candy for you to…
Where Should I Sponsor a Child?
By Web Team | Categories: Child Sponsorship, Join the Cause
Need help deciding where to sponsor a child?
Are you curious to see if you’re sponsoring a child in the “right” place?
Do you prefer tamales and red sauce or curry and rice?
Is your cruise of choice, boating on Lake Victoria or sailing down the Amazon River?
Are you more concerned about children experiencing drought…
For the month of August, these blogs referred the most traffic to our humble site. Check ‘em out!
These Words of Mine – 187 visits
Whittaker Woman – 76 visits
Clever Phrase Here – 68 visits
Girls Just Want to Have Fun – 43 visits
Sheep Droppings – 39 visits
all in His design – 39 visits
The Leopard at the Summit…
We have an account at Flickr, a photostream they call it, where we upload our photos … but we don’t get out of the office that often ’cause we be Webbies, so we don’t get a lot of photos to upload.
We’re working on that.
We also have this suh-WEET! Flickr group where anyone can upload…
Look at this cool Wordle. It’s a word cloud associated with the posts currently on our homepage.
Compassion Juli told us about Wordle. And after having fun with Wordles this morning, it seems that there is an important message that must be communicated to the world.
Click on the image and you can grab some code to…
Poverty is hard to grasp. Living amongst plenty, those seven letters (p-o-v-e-r-t-y) can be like abstract little bubbles floating in the air, not tethered down to anything real or concrete.
Have you ever experienced something here in the States that really made you get it?
Several months ago here at Compassion, we had a speaker at…
Isn’t it amazing how quickly time flies? Life moves past us with lightning speed. One big event after another appears on our calendars. We watch them approach, and when they arrive we mark them off. Then we’re on to the next big thing.
Within our families, it’s stuff like weddings and birthdays and soccer tournaments.…
It takes two to tango, and during June, these two non-employee blogs sent us the most dance partners.
They got sweet moves.
Rocks in My Dryer – 206 visits
musings of foreign hearts – 75 visits
Anyone up for the cha cha in July?
Get 50 friends together and meet us at here on August 1.…
Thank you to everyone who has made the commitment to fast and pray with us today. We’re nearly 6,000 strong.
Thank you to everyone who has helped spread the word about the day of fasting and prayer and about the global food crisis.
Thank you to everyone who has donated money to the Global Food Crisis…
June 25 is a day of fasting and prayer at Compassion. We’re fasting and praying for the children we sponsor, for their families and for our local staff and church partners in the developing world. We’re fasting and praying because the global food crisis is devastating many of their lives.
The price for rice, beans, corn…
Shaun Groves wrote this post. It’s been approved by the powers-that-be.
About Shaun Groves
Be careful going around having ideas and talking about them. You might just get put to work. That’s what happened to me.
About a year ago, I think it was, I started talking to the folks at Compassion about a crazy new idea. I…
You helped us earn it. Now, help us spend it.
Where should the $817.40 donation from Search Kindly be applied?
Global Food Crisis Fund
Malaria Intervention Fund
Global Food Crisis Fund
The global food crisis is being called a “silent tsunami” that could plunge several hundred million people deeper into poverty and hunger.
Families living in extreme poverty often spend…
For the month of May, these non-employee blogs referred the most traffic to our humble site. Thank you very much!
Rocks in My Dryer – 409 visits
Love Well – 120 visits
musings of foreign hearts – 60 visits
challies.com – 55 visits
Our SpotLINK guest contributor today is A. She currently serves as a worship leader and choir director. She blogs at Be Thou My Vision and co-maintains Women in Worship, a site connecting Christian women who are passionate about worshiping and serving God through music and the arts.
I remember when I first felt God leading me…
My heart is very heavy with the sad news we are hearing about how the current global food crisis is affecting many of our Compassion children, their families and even some of our country staff. Although we are still attempting to determine where the greatest needs are and the number of children being most adversely…
Blogging gets children in poverty sponsored.
Here’s da proof that blogging works.
Be Thou My Vision
flowerdust.net
429 children sponsored as a result of the Uganda blog trip.
And here’s da rebuttal.
The Search Kindly “Money Thermometer” shows that only $203 has been raised for Compassion this month.
Using highly complex advanced math skills that bend the imagination as well…
Here’s something very easy you can do to help children in poverty.
Use Search Kindly as your search engine during May. (It’s powered by Google.)
Thanks to your votes, Compassion will receive 100 percent of Search Kindly’s ad revenue for the month of May. Their goal is…
We asked, and you responded. Mille grazie! A thousand thanks. Actually, 2,618 thanks. That’s how many votes we received.
It doesn’t look like SearchKindly will reach its goal of raising $1,000 this month, so far the donation thermometer reads $682, but we’re still glad they included us in their voting.
You can help advance the…
Here’s some marketing rah-rah for ya. Well … it’s not really rah-rah, but it IS marketing pure and simple.
This is our newest toy, and we’re really excited about how it can help get more children sponsored. Hope you like, use it and share it.
One for Facebook …
Get the sponsor a child widget for Facebook.
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A Mosquito Bite Away
By Robyn Spencer | Categories: Complementary Interventions, Join the Cause
One of the things that shocked me when I visited Uganda last month was finding myself scared to death of mosquitoes. It was the strangest feeling to be afraid of something so small — something we usually think of as just a pest. But in Africa mosquito bites don’t just make your arm itch —…
Will you help us say thank you to Tammy Chalfant, who organized the first ever Compassion Sunday event at Farmland Friends Church (FFC)?
71 children now have sponsors.
Please tell Tammy and her pastor, Kris Sorensen, how much you appreciate their work.
And Shaun Groves too. He spoke at the event, and he’s a TIRELESS advocate…
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