It is my great privilege to introduce you to Fellow Blewussi Kpodo, our 1 millionth sponsored child! Fellow is 8 years old and lives in Togo with his father, two older sisters and one younger brother. And he now has a very bright future! 🙂 And who better to stand alongside this precious little […]

Meet Jeffry. He lives in Nicaragua. He is our one millionth registered child. A registered child is different than a sponsored child in that the registered child doesn’t have a sponsor . . . yet. Once the registered child gets a sponsor, that child is a sponsored child. Makes sense, right? The registered children […]

Ali Anderson, one of our ambassadors to the future,* shared this prayer at our 1 millionth child celebration last Friday. We thought we’d share it with you, along with another video from the celebration. “For nothing is impossible with God.” – Luke 1:37 (NIV) Most Holy King, We stand before You right now in […]

As you know, we recently announced our millionth sponsored child. Now, I won’t tell you a lot of random facts about 1 million. Like how long it would take you to count to 1 million (14 days). Or how much 1 million dollar bills weigh (2,204 pounds). Because as important as 1 million is, […]

[…] One Million Children and subscribe to Compassion YouTube for more stories. Tune into Fox and Friends tomorrow (May 21) at 6:50 a.m. EDT to “meet” our 1 millionth child and his sponsor. The newly sponsored child lives with his father outside Togo’s capital city of Lomé. Togo, a country whose population is seriously affected […]

[…] exceeded more than 1 million pageviews in a year, and left the million visitor mark in the last town. We’ve run nine blog trips, celebrated our 1 millionth sponsored child, launched OurCompassion, responded to the earthquake in Haiti, enjoyed being named one of the Best Corporate Blogs in 2011, joined a few social networks, […]

[…] from 2008. In fact, they might be some of yours too; after all we could not have reached any of them without you! We registered our one millionth child. We opened the first Compassion child development center in Togo. Compassion Tanzania registered its 50,000 child. Of course, a year can be marked with trials […]

[…] of songs used to impart Christian basics to the children is one that mentions the fruits of the Holy Spirit listed in Galatians 5:22-23. Fellow Kpodo, the millionth child to ever be sponsored through Compassion, attends a development center in Togo. His father, Edoh, told us this story: “Often, Fellow plays with the neighborhood […]