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 ...

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...

Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse... "The Elders" - a group of internationally-respected leaders and former leaders (in this case, represented by former US President Carter, former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, and former Mozambican first lady (( and wife of former South African...

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...

I sit here, eating my breakfast as I type, while people are starving to death.  I've been on the attack--at times, only half-heartedly--against my creeping weight gain and winning only very slowly, so I have a hard time understanding what that must be like.  I can't even put myself in the ...

Compassion International's biggest annual campaign is known as Compassion Sunday.  Last year, well over 21,000 children in poverty were sponsored through this campaign; the goal this year is 22,000. The official date for Compassion Sunday, this year, is this Sunday, April 13 '08.  Many, ma...