Comments on: The Journey of One Letter

By: Kees Boer

Kees Boer — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:13:29 +0000

Hi, Stephanie,

First of all, I must say that I’m so encouraged by you writing your child and sending pictures to your child. This means so much to the children. One of the biggest desires in your child’s life is to know you. You are very important to your child and when they get a picture, they really treasure that picture. So, I’m so excited to hear that you are doing this. You are a great example to all the sponsors. I’ve sorted so many letters in the country office and the vast majority of them don’t have pictures, thus this is a big thing to your child.

I don’t know where your child is but I spent quite a bit of time working with the letters in the country office in Bolivia and I have to say that your letters are treated with the highest amount of care. Here are some things to consider:

The letters take about 2 to 3 months to get to your child and 2 – 3 months to get to you. Thus the letter that you sent with the 4 pictures, she might get that one in February, maybe even March, because of the Christmas Holidays and what have you. Also, the letter that you received that mentioned that she hadn’t received the pictures yet, might have been written in August. Thus if you had sent the pictures in June, she wouldn’t have received the pictures yet…..

Also, be sure to write the child number on the back of each picture that you sent. The letters are bagged and sent in big boxes to the country. The box might have 1,000 letters, you can imagine, if your picture gets detached by accident from the letter, it becomes almost impossible to figure out which letter that picture belongs too. BTW, I always suggest people to write on line. It is more convenient but it takes care of a lot of these potential problems.

You might want to call the call center. 1-800-336-7676 They can track the individual letters. Every detail gets logged, thus they can really assist with the details of that.

But thank you again so much!!!!!!!!!! Tania will love you so much!!!!

By: Stephanie Salvage

Stephanie Salvage — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:05:06 +0000

My Sponsered Child Tania says she has not received in pictures from me. I have submitted a number of letters with pictures & with stickers in them. Would like to find out if she has received them. In fact I just sent another letter with 4 pictures in it 3 days ago.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 20:59:06 +0000

Something I have been wondering about, since becoming a sponsor … what would the time frame be for my sponsored child to hear that she’s received me and my husband as sponsors? I imagine for little ones, it might be difficult to grasp what a sponsor is, but I’ve pondered how she got to hear that we’d chosen her. So we signed up on the Sunday at church, and I was thrilled and excited and talking about her, and organising a packet to send to her all week … when would she and her mother have received a visit to tell them that we’re her new sponsors? It must be so exciting and thrilling to receive that visit of good news. I am yet to hear from my sponsored child, but I have sent her two packets already, and I just hope she likes them, finds them encouraging, and I can’t wait to hear from her. She’s in Peru, so I don’t know if they offer reciprocal Letter Writing or if it’s a 4 monthly letter writing session only. I’ll probably write to her every 3 – 4 weeks depending on news to tell her – if these packets “catch up” with each other she’ll be swamped with stickers, colouring books, photos and all sorts on Delivery Day! LOL!

By: Diane London

Diane London — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:33:52 +0000

My husband and 4 children have been sponsoring Bradly from Kenya now for 2 years. What a Blessing he is to us and to my children actually praying for him on a daily basis After reviewing Compassions website, I realized that I could send his family a money gift of any amount…wow… guess what we did for Easter??? We Love you Bradly! Just the thought of seeing their faces when they receive the gift from our family to theirs, brings such joy to my heart. And when you think about it, how much money do we blow because we can? We decided to bless our family…both families are blessed when you give from the <3

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By: Diane Nichols

Diane Nichols — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:43:54 +0000

Some of the kids are very newsy and write often, even get concerned if they haven’t heard from me for a while. Some of them don’t write that often. For the kids that don’t write that often, I still write them frequently as I want them to know that they are loved and wanted. Since we have a special needs son, I write more often to those kids, they are in poverty and to have a disability on top of that could be discouraging so I try to be as encouraging as I can, one of them just lost his mother, there are 4 kids in the family, they live in an aids-affected country and he is positive about about his future! Kind of makes me feel less discouaged.

By: Douglas Reutzel

Douglas Reutzel — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 23:36:00 +0000

I love getting letters from my children it is interesting how they have changed over time. My two children are both good letter writers and seem very anxious to keep in contact. It is a pleasure for me to write to them share hopes, prayers and our love for Christ. Thank you for letting us see the process that letters go through.

By: Jenny Sheehan

Jenny Sheehan — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:22:57 +0000

Mary,
I too have two children in Haiti, one of them quite close to the epicenter. I wrote her the day after the earthquake, though I knew it would take much time and effort before she received it. I told her I was praying for her and was anxious to know if she was alright. Today I received a letter from her, praise God! She had written it two weeks after the quake. Our letters usually cross in the mail like that. But since they are able to write through their Compassion network, I am confident that Abner and my child Francia will also be able to receive our letters when they arrive in Haiti. They may already have them. I can’t imagine the deluge of mail the translators are facing right now…

By: Mary Fidlin

Mary Fidlin — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:18:45 +0000

Thank you very much for this information about letter writing. I have written a few letters to my sponsored child in Haiti (after the earthquake), and I am wondering how long it will take for him to receive my letters. I have recently received a letter from my child, Abner, and I am so relieved that he and his family were not injured (an answer to many prayers). But since he lost his home, church and development center in the earthquake, I am wondering when he will be actually receiving my letters. I know that is not as important as his well-being right now…I would like him to know that I care about him and that I am praying for him and his family. I’m praising God and thanking Him for Abner’s letter to me…what a blessing!

By: Frances Michaels

Frances Michaels — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:18:08 +0000

This was all very useful information – I have often wondered about the mail. I wish I knew the particulars about the Phillipines where my child is. Her mother wrote the letters for the first 3 years and that was wonderful – I felt we really had a connection. I was eager for my child to write but I do miss the details about the family that the mother would write me. It has been a great 7 years of correspondence and I have a notebook with every letter, card, and photo I have received. I often reread them and it is a treasure to me. I am just as thankful for their prayers as they are for mine.