Pray for Your Sponsored Child: Justice
Many sponsored children live in places where they witness or experience injustice. Pray that God would place a deep love of justice in your sponsored child’s heart and that they would grow to become bearers of justice in their society.
Continue Reading ›Pray for Your Sponsored Child: Love for God’s Word
Pray that your sponsored child would learn to cling to God’s Word and treasure its words as their comfort and treasure.
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Pray for Your Sponsored Child: Self-Control
Many sponsored children live in places where alcoholism, drug use and promiscuity are common. Pray that your sponsored child would be growing rather in the Fruit of the Spirit of self-control.
Pray for Your Sponsored Child: Honesty and Integrity
Some of the places where sponsored children live are rife with corruption. Pray that your sponsored child would reject corruption and would be examples of honesty and integrity in their community.
Pray for Your Sponsored Child: Love
Although our sponsored children don’t have access to many material resources, they have access to the immeasurable love of Christ! Pray that your sponsored child would live a life of love — committed to the love of their Lord and the love of others around them.
Cook with Compassion: Beijinho de Coco (Coconut Kisses)
Despite a tumultuous history with candy-making, Amber decided to give making Beijinho de Coco (coconut kisses) a try.
Pray for Your Sponsored Child: Growth in Grace
Thank God for the church members and ministry staff who can take part in discipling our sponsored children. Pray that your sponsored child will grow in their knowledge of Christ, as well as grow deeper and deeper in His grace.
Pray for Your Sponsored Child: Salvation
Praise God that through the local church and our program, sponsored children have access to the most important gift of all — salvation through Christ.
Let’s Get Praying for Our Sponsored Children
Even when we don’t have a face-to-face relationship with our sponsored children, prayer can be such a tool in building that relationship. So for the next couple of months, let’s pray together, each weekend, for God’s working in these precious children’s lives.
Cook With Compassion: Murgir Korma
This Murgir Korma recipe is from Kevin Stout, who helped open our offices in Bangladesh and now serves as the ministry’s Church Partnership Development Manager. His wife is Bengali, and this is her family’s recipe for murgir korma, or sweet chicken curry with yogurt.
Unbridled Joy
When exactly does that happen — that our joy is snuffed out, stuffed down or smothered? What happens to stifle that unspeakable joy that used to well up at the slightest provocation?
Cook With Compassion: Rellenitos
Rellenitos is a Cook with Compassion dessert submitted by Claudia de Ramirez, a ministry Tours and Visits Specialist in Guatemala. Rellenitos are plantain donuts filled with an ingredient you may not expect.
