Stories to Connect You With Compassion & Grow Your Faith

The son of the High Chief, knowingly or not, showed his friends an image of what Jesus Christ did for each of us when He went to the cross. He stood between them and the evil one, who wanted to hurt them.

Skippy wished he could stay in El Salvador, but duty calls. Besides, he’s looking forward to doing some mountain climbing. Where do you think Skippy is this week?

Compassion began its ministry in Ghana in 2005 with when the Child Sponsorship Program. Since then we have registered 25,000 children.

In the community of Barrio George, children learn to read and write around the age of 8, which is why many children don’t normally write introductory letters themselves. We give the child development centers seven days to complete their child introductory letters and bring them to the office in Santo Domingo.

We want to end extreme poverty in our lifetime. And 58: is about all of the other children that we can’t sponsor, but want to.

How do you find the balance between what you want and what you need? Especially when it comes to your kids, whom you and the grandparents and aunts and uncles want to shower with good things?

The real fun of Instagram is seeing the photos that our friends share with us. Here are three of our favorites with the theme kids at play.

In all honesty, you’re not the one who will choose your little boy or girl. God has chosen a little one for you, and He will lead you to him.

Please vote for us to takeover the Water.org Twitter account and encourage others to vote for us as well.

Doesn’t it just make your day when you get artwork from your child? Have you ever considered that your child would love to receive artwork from you?

Our mascot, Skippy had so much fun last week with Christopher Columbus in the Dominican Republic. Where do you think he will go this week?

On our Compassion tours, parents often bring their teenagers but rarely their younger children. Which raises the question: When should we start teaching our kids about poverty and exposing them to the needs in the world around them?