Comments on: Saturday’s Half

By: Allyson

Allyson — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 21:38:01 +0000

…last summer at a student Life Camp in Alabama

By: Danielle

Danielle — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:13:21 +0000

Over 3 years ago when Bart Campolo spoke at my college. Afterward I went over to the table and picked up a packet, just to take a closer look. I then noticed we had the same birthday and knew right then that I was supposed to sponsor her.

By: Ashley P.

Ashley P. — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:54:05 +0000

…was when I went to Revolve. They had a video and testimonials and Jordan and I decided we really needed to sponsor a child. I’m so glad we did!

By: Wendy in Iowa

Wendy in Iowa — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:07:42 +0000

4 years ago I had picked up a brochure off a counter in an antique store one weekend when my husband and I were out and about. It was 6 months and a lot of praying before we found Hikma, age 13 from Etiopia.

With in a year we were sponsoring a total of 3. The last 2 (6 and 19) left the program the end of July.

We are still sponsoring Hikma, this past month our sponsorship was transfered to two children that had been waiting for almost a year. Two weeks later we have a fourth spronsored child.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:53:14 +0000

The first time I heard of Compassion International, I KNEW I had to do it. I sponsored a little girl named Jennifer. Jennifer is the name of my sister who passed away suddenly at the age of 31 in 1986.

By: Nichole

Nichole — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:02:03 +0000

Compassion was brought back to my attention at a Michael W. Smith concert. I had recently been to India to see the country before the wedding of a friend and I left there forever changed. My heart was desperate to find some way to make a difference there but handing out money randomly is more dangerous than helpful. I found two children in different parts of India who’d been waiting for some time and chose a boy and a girl. It has been a relief to feel that I can do even a little something to make a difference in a country I have grown to love so much. Not to mention that changing one child’s life changes every child for generations after.

By: Crystal

Crystal — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:26:29 +0000

I learned about Compassion by accident. I was attempting to sponsor a child through another program. It was something I had wanted to do since I was child, having grown up watching the Sally Struthers commercials. The other site was not working and in my frustration I simply conducted a search for “sponsor children”. For once, I was determined to follow through on my good intensions right then! Compassion and my sponsor children have taught me so much about love, life and faith. All things work for the good, even other organizations bad web sites.

By: Sue T.

Sue T. — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:45:15 +0000

My junior high school Music teacher (Mrs Artman) shared with her class a letter she received from a child she and her family sponsored. That seed was sown in 1970. When I got my first full time job in 1979, I decided to sponsor a child through Compassion…I don’t remember “how I was led” to Compassion…but I do remember the first child I sponsored, Maxiana (ed. last name removed for privacy reasons) from Haiti. I still have her picture and letters. I (and my husband) have continued to sponsor children ever since.

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:44:48 +0000

I was 15 or 16 years old and reading Brio magazine(a Focus on the Family magazine)with an ad for Compassion International featuring Michael W Smith.
I was so impacted. I said “I’m going to help them one day.”

By: Rhonda Repshire

Rhonda Repshire — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:31:03 +0000

My family had just begun going to a different church my freshman year of high school. The high school Sunday school class sponsored a child with the offering money collected and had a picture on the bulletin board and letters from our child. Due to this experience, I began sponsoring my own child while in high school as well.