First, before I launch into my main post for today....which I think is so important....I want to thank you guys for your kind words and encouragement after my post yesterday.  I realize it may have sounded a little "woe is me" but I guess sometimes you can't help to have th...

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 ...

This morning, my brother Reed and his wife Lee Ann boarded a plane that would take them to the other side of the world, to the place where their third daughter waits for them. She's in Ethiopia. She's almost 11 months old. She has giant brown eyes and heart-shaped lips,......

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...

One of those self-defeating things Christians sometimes fall into is the pressure, mostly perceived in error, to be always up , always fantastic!  Perish the thought that other people, especially other Christians, would know that, sometimes, we're about as far from fantastic! as one human ...

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 ...