4,255 Sponsored Children During Blog Month 2013

Your participation and support of blog month helped offer hope and opportunity to thousands of children living in extreme poverty. And on their behalf we are grateful. Thank you.
Continue Reading ›How Can Repetition Get the Creative Juices Flowing?

As we enter the home stretch of Blog Month, you may be feeling a little low on creativity and words. Let this little exercise help get those creative juices flowing.
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The Key to Ending Poverty is Hope
The key to ending poverty resides in the capacity of human beings—and their view of their own capacity—to facilitate positive change.

Three Things About One Word: Silence
Silence speaks. To everyone and for everyone. Silence cannot remain intact. It is always broken. Silence requires effort. It’s deliberate action or inaction.

A Conversation With My Childhood Self
A message every child needs to hear is, “Jesus loves you and He won’t ever leave you. He won’t ever let you down.”

Blog Month 2013 Starts September 1
Blog Month 2013 starts September 1, and the goal is to get 3,160 children sponsored online by 11:59 p.m. MT on September 30.

Are You There God? Do You Hear Me?
Excerpted from Compassion Blogger, Emily at With Elephant Grace. Emily won third place for the ‘Dear God’ Blog Month assignment.

Catching the Rain
Compassion Blogger, Faith, Life and Compassion won third place during Blog Month by writing from the perspective of a child living in extreme poverty.

Dear God: It’s Been a While
Excerpted from Compassion Blogger, Kim at Three Little Larks. Kim won second place for the ‘Dear God’ Blog Month assignment.

Someone Loves Wendy
Excerpted from compassion Blogger, Emily at An Ounce of Compassion. Emily won second place during Blog Month by writing from the perspective of a sponsored child.

And I Named My Dreams, I Named Them Big
Compassion Blogger, wynnegraceappears won first place during Blog Month by writing from the perspective of a sponsored child.

Dear God: Listen in on a Private Conversation
Compassion Blogger, She Getz the Shot won first place for the ‘Dear God’ Blog Month assignment where she shares about the desire for motherhood and the gift of sponsorship.