Stories to Connect You With Compassion & Grow Your Faith

Guided by an agricultural officer in her country of Sri Lanka, Vasantha started a small gardening project in her front yard. But she didn’t stop there.

Children don’t necessarily need the extraordinary from us. They just need us to spend time with them, know them, love them, and be available for them.

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.

Compassion employees, volunteer workers, church partners, and program sponsors work together purposefully to improve the lives of impoverished children—to restore hope, alleviate despair, nourish bodies, and most importantly, teach them about Jesus’ love.

Can we commit to work and speak together with one voice? Is our motivation to glorify the Lord or to bring recognition and glory to ourselves?

Kim assumed that our ministry would change her perspective as an adult, but wasn’t sure what to expect when it came to her children. After becoming a sponsor, she has seen first-hand six ways child sponsorship has changed the lives of her 6 and 2-year-olds.

Our Philippines office used to play a unique game of volleyball. But, it wasn’t a ball they would toss to one another – it was blame!

We began our ministry in Colombia in 1974 with the Child Sponsorship Program. In 2005, we started the Leadership Development Program.

When we are in our offices, away from the child development centers and away from the children, it seems that we can’t do anything for them. But that is not true.

How does child sponsorship stack up against other ways to help the poor? Economics professor, Bruce Wydick reveals the answer to this question in his recent research findings.

Each day we have the choice to choose life or death. To worship God by serving each other with joy or to expect others to serve us.

In A Place At The Table, author Chris Seay proposes that we spend 40 days in a fast with a unique twist: eat what our sponsored child eats. And in the process, recapture gratitude and a sense of solidarity with the poor.