Recommended Posts
September 19, 2013 – We recommend the following. However, please remember that absolutely everything we publish is worth reading. 🙂
- How Can Bloggers Benefit from Twitter?
- The Compassion Child Sponsorship Program: What Are Complementary Interventions?
- The Compassion Child Sponsorship Program: What Does Research Show?
- What Happens When a Child Isn’t Sponsored?
- How Are We Different?
- What’s the Reality for Mothers Around the World?
- Join the Letter Writing Club on Pinterest
- A Cup of Cold Water
- Research Shows: Child Sponsorship Through Compassion Works
- We Have a New President and CEO
- Top 10 Reasons to Write Your Sponsored Child
- Why Holistic Child Development?
- Five Ways to Take Great Photographs of Kids
- Ideas for Fun Items to Send to Your Sponsored Child
- Once: A Story of Loss, Pain and Redemption in an African Slum
- I Cancelled My Sponsorship
- Through the Eyes of a Child: Eastern India
- How Can a Slum Start?
- Coming Full Circle: The Anita Charles Story
- What is Our Song?
- Discovering a Piece of Ministry History
- Ministry Insider: Jeff Arnold, the Man Behind the Camera
- Three Things You Should Know About Compassion Adolescents
- Nine Most Common Correspondence Questions
- Come Pin With Us!
- What Are Your Hopes and Dreams for Your Child?
- 5 Ways to Build a Relationship With Your Sponsored Child, and Why It Matters
- Six Questions to Ask Before Sponsoring a Child
- What is the Value of Your Sponsorship?
- What Would You Ask God?
- What is the Most Interesting Thing Your Sponsor Has Told You?
- A Sponsor’s Letter: From Gayle to Her Child
- A Child’s Letter: From Maria to Her Sponsor
- What If This Was the Fate of Your Letters?
- How Does Child Sponsorship Rate as a Strategy to Help the Poor?
- 10 Motivating Reasons to Write Your Child
- An Inside Look: Correspondence at Compassion
- How Different (and Similar) are Compassion Canada and Compassion USA?
- What Can I Share in Letters to My Sponsored Child?
- You Can Copy These Sample Letters!
- What Does Poverty Mean?
- What is Poverty?
- Can I Send This Gift to My Sponsored Child?
- Changes to Our Letter-Writing Process
- Got Questions?
- How Do I Share Holiday Traditions With My Sponsored Child?
- Developed-World Tantrums
- How do Cross Cultural Differences Affect Letter Writing?
- Are We Worth Your Trust and Money?
- Who Do You Say We Are?
- 10 Ways to Choose Which Child to Sponsor
- The Mystery of the Blue Corner
- How Do We Decide Which Churches to Partner With?
- How Important Are Sponsor Letters?
- You’re More Than a Sponsor
- Who Translates Your Letters?
- Where’s the Poverty?
- What Is Child Sponsorship All About?
- How Do You Stay Passionate About Letter Writing?
- What Is Geotagging, and What Does It Have to Do With My Sponsored Child?
- How Do You Stay in Your Child’s World?
- Can my sponsored child visit me?
- Keeping Up With the Joneses
- Got Any Great Fundraising Ideas?
- Why Do Child Development Centers Close?
- Can My Sponsored Child’s Siblings Be Sponsored, Too?
- How Does Our Partnership With Local Churches Really Work?
- What Is Life Like In … ?
- How Does Our Letter Translation Process Work?
- How are children told that they have been sponsored? (two posts)
- Tour a church and child development center in Guatemala
- Your sponsored child prays for you (two posts)
- This is what your sponsored child wants to hear from you (two posts)
- How do we teach the children in our programs?
- The Colors of Poverty (eight photo galleries)
- When a child leaves our sponsorship program
- One way you can help make your financial contributions go further and do more
- How is our child sponsorship program different than “regular” schooling?
- Answers to frequently asked questions about giving a gift to your sponsored child
- Your sponsored child’s photo: What does it tell you?
- How long does my sponsorship last?
- How is my money used each month?
- Why do my sponsored child’s letters seem so impersonal?
- Three things all sponsors should know
- Why can’t I communicate with my sponsored child via Facebook?
- What should I do if my sponsored child contacts me via Facebook?
- Why do children leave the sponsorship program?
- What happens when a child leaves the sponsorship program?
- What does my sponsored child learn at the child development center?
- How do we choose which children to register in our child sponsorship program?
- Does giving gifts to our sponsored children make a difference?
- What impact does giving a family gift have in a child’s life?
- Do sponsored children have expectations of their sponsors?
- Where do you sponsor a child? Connect with people who sponsor children in the same development center as you do.
- Should I Visit My Sponsored Child … or is the money better used for something else?
- What is it like to meet your sponsored child for the first time?
- View country maps showing the locations of our child development centers
- Are my letters really that important?
- Letter Writing Ideas, a forum for ideas on how to keep correspondence with your sponsored child fresh, educational and exciting
- Letter Writing Ideas from graduates of our Leadership Development Program
- Write your child the second Friday of every month
- Write to a Child: a post to answer your questions about becoming a child correspondent
- Funny Things Kids Say … What puzzling, quirky, amusing things have your sponsored children written in their letters to you?
- Why Does My Sponsored Child Look So Scared?
- Why does it take so long to hear if my child was affected by a crisis? What is involved in the crisis reporting process?
- Crisis Updates: Subscribe to a Compassion RSS Feed … stay informed about what’s going on in your sponsored child’s country
- Disaster Relief Kit: What’s Inside? … In the aftermath of a disaster, what do we typically include in our immediate response disaster relief kits?
- How do we introduce children in poverty to a Christian education?
- What’s involved with opening a child development center
- How do you grieve the loss of a sponsored child?
- Always About Jesus … CEO Wess Stafford talks about the history of our marketing message and why it will always be about Jesus.
- Foster Development, Not Dependence
- The Last Mile: How Our AIDS Initiative Works
- Child Survival 101: How our Child Survival Program works
- Compassion International is not a child sponsorship organization
- Child Development vs. Community Development … a video explaining why Compassion focuses on the former
- The poor will NOT always be with us (multiple posts)
- Equipping the Church: an explanation of our partnership with the local church in the developing world
- What we believe
