Global Food Crisis Day.   In partnership with radio stations, media, churches and bloggers, Compassion International is working to spread the word about the Global Food Crisis.  We hope to raise both awareness and funds to feed those who are most critically impact...

I don't have a picture to show, but Amanueal is our latest sponsored child.  He is 9 years old and living in Ethiopia.  While both of our names are on all of our sponsorships, I write to the girls, who have always been considered my sponsored children.  Bruce ...

A common theme in our church says that "We are blessed to be a blessing."  Our lead pastor, Glen Elliott, preached again, this morning, about being blessed.  So often, when someone says, "I've been blessed," or "God has really blessed me," the person is ...

My cousin Paul sent me a link to this Canadian organization, so I've been looking at the information on each of the women involved in it.  The goal of one of the founders:  "To create a Canada where demand for abortion dwindles and decreases until there is none left, not b...

Compassion friend Juli recently added a post titled "Leave some for the poor," over at Sheep Droppings, and she really got my mind to whirring.  You should read her post, and when you do, you need to take a really good look at the faces of the children holding the plates.  I...

I know God can heal the sick.  I've experienced it, myself, and know of many other examples.  I also know He doesn't always do that.  I believe that, when He doesn't heal, He does have a reason, although we might never know what it is, in this life...or...

Back in August, Compassion's blog ran a post about this family in Bangladesh.  Many of the comments on that post indicated a real desire on the part of sponsors--none of them actually sponsoring this particular child/family--to collect the funds to purchase a cycle-van for the ...

Before I left home to go to the 2008 Global Compassion Advocates Conference in the Dominican Republic, I was given an assignment.  My friend Cindy, who already sponsors a few children, asked me to find another little girl for her--a child who would catch my heart.  If that were the only ...

This comes to you from the Dominican Republic, where I am attending Compassion's International Advocates Network Conference.  I will almost certainly have several posts about this week, in the week or two after I get home, but I can't wait on this one. Yesterday, those of us who sponso...

An admitted student recently asked me how supportive Harvard is of student initiatives that maybe don’t match up with existing opportunities here. I asked Lisa Dealy, who heads up our office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs, to respond. She forwarded me her response so I would know what’...