She took the photo while in the Dominican Republic for the Global Advocates Conference.

Hope you like it as much as we do.

Keep submitting photos to our Flickr group. We may choose one of your photos next.

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Join our Flickr group and upload your photos of children in poverty. We’re looking to choose one to use as our new blog banner.

Here’s some of the good stuff people have already shared with us.

drewfrancis1 took this photo. Click on it and you can see his whole photostream.

fromthebalcony1 took this photo. Click on it, and you can see the whole photostream.

topaaz took this photo. Click on it, and you can see all of her photostream.

carolina_assuncao took this photo. Click on it, and you can see Carolina’s entire photostream.

Hope you don’t mind that we have Flickr on the brain this week.

If you want to let your Twitter followers know about this, here’s a ready-made tweet for you to use.

• Click the link above – “ready-made tweet”
• Log into Twitter.
• Send the tweet you see already written for you.

Or you could also tweet something on your own … like this copy:

• Compassion is updating the photo in their blog banner. Upload your photos to Flickr for consideration. http://digbig.com/4ydhj

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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.

<a href="http://www.compassion.com/sponsor_a_child/default.htm?referer=blogdr"><img border="0" src="http://blog.compassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/120x270_dr.jpg" alt="120x270_dr" title="120x270_dr" width="125" height="270" class="size-full wp-image-902" /></a>

<a href="http://www.compassion.com/sponsor_a_child/default.htm?referer=blogdr"><img border="0" src="http://blog.compassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/150x200_dominican_republic.jpg" alt="150x200_dominican_republic" title="150x200_dominican_republic" width="150" height="200" class="size-full wp-image-904" /></a>

And here’s a slideshow of all the photos from the trip – more than 330 when this post was written.

Wanna see a bigger slideshow?

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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 for more!)
• 652 photos were uploaded. Woo hoo! (And we still have room for more! Are you getting that? )
• One photo was chosen for our new blog banner. Here it is, courtesy of AlyssaEryn.

I took this picture last summer in Tena, Ecuador. It’s a small village that is actually about 20 miles away from the place where Jim Elliot and Nate Saint where killed in 1956. I was there doing a Bible camp for kids living along the river.

The little boy in the picture is named Christian, and he stole my heart from the very first day. At the time of the photo he was five years old, but I’m not sure of his exact birthday. A natural model, he would often pose so I would take his picture, then run over to me to view the tiny screen on the back of my camera. – Alyssa

Our next blog banner could be yours. We’ll be doing this again in a few months, so keep uploading.

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