Poverty » What are you going to do? http://blog.compassion.com Releasing children from poverty in Jesus' name. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:04:40 +0000 en hourly 1 Comfort the Afflicted and Afflict the Comfortable http://blog.compassion.com/comfort-the-afflicted-and-afflict-the-comfortable/ http://blog.compassion.com/comfort-the-afflicted-and-afflict-the-comfortable/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:55:24 +0000 Wess Stafford http://blog.compassion.com/?p=9486 My Account l Sponsor a Child l Help Babies and Moms l Crisis Updates

]]> Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable We must ignite passion for children in poverty, to the glory of God. Nobody is garbage.

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Jesus name

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]]> http://blog.compassion.com/always-about-jesus-name/feed/ 10 Finding Excellence in the Little Things http://blog.compassion.com/strive-for-excellence-in-the-little-things/ http://blog.compassion.com/strive-for-excellence-in-the-little-things/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:24:52 +0000 Wess Stafford http://blog.compassion.com/?p=6020 My Account l Sponsor a Child l Help Babies and Moms l Crisis Updates

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]]> what is poverty What is poverty? Our President, Wess Stafford, defines poverty and describes our solution for releasing children from poverty in Jesus’ name.

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UPDATED: Nov. 18, 2011 – We also have a photo essay from the Compassion Bloggers trip to Ecuador which asks the same question; What is poverty?

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]]> http://blog.compassion.com/god-uses-children/feed/ 12 What the Future Holds http://blog.compassion.com/what-the-future-holds/ http://blog.compassion.com/what-the-future-holds/#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:48:34 +0000 Wess Stafford http://blog.compassion.com/?p=4379 My Account l Sponsor a Child l Help Babies and Moms l Crisis Updates

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]]> http://blog.compassion.com/poverty-stops-here/feed/ 10 What About the Rest of the Children? http://blog.compassion.com/rest-of-the-children/ http://blog.compassion.com/rest-of-the-children/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:46:38 +0000 Wess Stafford http://blog.compassion.com/?p=3454 My Account l Sponsor a Child l Help Babies and Moms l Crisis Updates

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]]> Living the legacy We are all in a story. A great creative process of writing history and being swept up in history at the same time.

God is the author of the BIG story, the story of His great love and redemption. And we’re all a part of that big story. But we each have our own stories to write, and I believe that God invites us to joyfully and playfully join Him in the creative process of writing our parts.

Sometimes our thinking binds us to a deterministic view of the world, like we are mere pawns in a chess game. But I believe we are active agents in the story.

In his book, Holy Play – The Joyful Adventure of Unleashing Your Diving Purpose, Baptist preacher and author Kirk Byron Jones says,

“What if, more than anything else, God wants you to experience the joy of searching out and choosing your purpose in life among a vast assortment of opportunities? What if there isn’t a detailed plan for your life but an open outline and an invitation from God to you to creatively and deliberately fill in the spaces? What if God’s ultimate dream for your life is that you live and play your best dreams?”

Fifty-seven years ago God spoke to a man. Amid the droning engines of an airplane, God asked that man, “What are you going to do?”

The faces of Korean children, the feather weight of their small bodies in his arms, and the gentleness of their voices filled Everett Swanson’s mind.

On that plane an idea was born. A simple vision for a faithful, godly response to God’s question became a seed for an unimaginable movement of God’s people. Compassion.


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Fifty-seven years later God continues to speak to His people, calling us to serve the global movement for children in poverty. A global movement we call Compassion.

What are we going to do?

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