Yesterday was our birthday, and “Today Is My Birthday” … so says our newest widget.
The “Today Is My Birthday” featured child widget is now available for you to use on your blog or MySpace profile. It’s not available for Facebook, but we do have a featured child widget you can use there.
The “Today Is My Birthday” featured child widget DOES work on wordpress.com blogs.
“CompassionArt is a charity that joins the dots between art and poverty. It raises money to help breathe life into the poorest communities, restoring hope and igniting justice.” – compassionart.tv
The widget below has lots of details on the CompassionArtproject, as well as a link to download a free song with song sheet and the first chapter of the book, which explores the inspiration, motivation and passion behind this exceptional collaboration.
Yesterday, we published a poll asking you how quickly our homepage loads. The poll results told us 20 percent of you feel it loads too slowly.
We made several changes to fix this.
Reduced the number of posts displayed on our home page, from 10 to eight
Changed the settings for the “Digg This” button and the “Share This” options.
If you want to submit a post to Digg or share the post with your friends through e-mail, on Facebook, in del.icio.us, etc., which we hope you do and do a lot, the buttons are available on each blog post page. Just click on the title of the blog post to get there.
Removed three widgets from the sidebar.
If you want to use the Global Food Crisis widget or the blog RSS feed widget, you can find them on our widget page. The cool-looking “Where Are You From?” flag-bubble widget now has its own page. You should visit it.
We’ll ask you about this again, in the near future. But for now, we have a new poll asking whether you want us to keep the Twitter widget in our sidebar.
Even though the Compassion Bloggers trip ends today, you can still advocate on behalf of children in the Dominican Republic.
Add these banners to your blog, if you haven’t already grabbed them from somewhere else; your readers will be instantly transported to a place where they can choose to sponsor a child from the Dominican Republic.
And here’s a slideshow of all the photos from the trip – more than 330 when this post was written.
Today probably seems like a normal mid-week day. A lot like the other workdays, school days . . . everything happening too quickly kind of days. But today is also World Food Day as recognized by UNICEF. And today more than 300 million children will go to bed hungry.
Under the burden of the global food crisis, the hungry are more hungry, poverty is more overwhelming. The need for food is more desperate, and the word falling from every hungry mouth, I imagine, is, “Please.”
This is no small please; this is a worldwide please for over $16 million, submitted by our country offices asking for support to feed the children.
Are you overwhelmed? Can you feel defeat slipping in ready to steal your passion to do something? It’s okay, I do too. I feel it too, so much so that I have labored over this issue for quite sometime now, thinking “I am 24 years old, paying my own bills, trying to figure out what this adult stuff is all about. Let me see, *calculating*. . . What? This is what I have leftover to give? That simply will not do. Not in the light of $16 million dollars.”
But I’m not alone. We’re not alone. I can hear a mighty army commanded by the Lord and appointed to bring forth justice, passionate about feeding the hungry, comforting the oppressed. And so there is Please. Compassion’s site dedicated solely to the Global Food Initiative. Members of the army include Rebecca St. James, Bebo Norman, KJ-52….me, you.
Can you hear it now? The marching of the faithful being driven by the heartbeat of the Lord.
Remember when we gathered in prayer and fasting concerning the global food crisis? I remember. I was still pretty new to Compassion, not yet a fulltime employee and I recall feeling so empowered by this organization to do something. Even if I didn’t have money, I had prayer. I have a voice that surpasses all this world claims as important and goes directly into the high courts of the all-powerful God.
Well here is another opportunity:
Also, in case you were wondering, I am a social network fanatic! Facebook, Myspace, Blogspot, Flickr . . . love it! (But don’t judge me). And I love that I can use these channels to let my friends know what I care about. Grab a widget from our site concerning the global food initiative and add it to your social network. Let your friends and family see what you are passionate about.
Let’s join together and watch what the Lord has in store. Let’s become part of an army that can’t lose.
We won’t quit. We’re committed. Strengthened by the love of the Lord and motivated by something hunger and the lies of poverty can’t surpass. And maybe, just maybe, we will start to hear a lot less “pleases.” Maybe we will begin to hear a choir compiled of His little ones exclaiming “Thank you.”
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 enjoy.
Here’s the sugar free blog widget.
And the full fat, caffeinated, sugar-boosted blog widget.
Even though the Compassion Bloggers trip ends today, you can still advocate on behalf of children in the Dominican Republic. 
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