Here are two Compassion Testimonies:
The first is from Hannah
My name is Hannah and I'm a recent college graduate (Go Lee
Flames!). I've been sponsering my child, Florah for almost 2 years now.
Florah lives in Kenya with her parents and two siblings. Her birthday is
coming up in a couple of weeks and she will be 7 years old. I had heard
about Compassion at one of the Passion conferences in Atlanta and as a
college student who was learning about money and finances, I started to
look more into it. I really felt challenged to give up a portion of my
money each month to bless this little child. I found myself spending so
much money on things that are fleeting, when the $38.00/month for
Compassion is of eternal value. Once I realized just how much the
monthly fee gives these children and how much it blesses the well-being
of their entire families, I couldn't pass it up. There is nothing that
makes my day more than receiving mail from sweet Florah. Her pictures
are on my fridge and the coloring pages she sends me are in my room. I
cry every time I read her letters because of HER love for ME and HER
prayers for ME. She is so thankful and grateful for me...and it
encourages my faith so much. The area she lives in is an HIV/AIDS
community and that has just been on my heart for some time now.
Compassion is actually taking a trip to Kenya in March, but I just
missed the deadline. I know I will meet Florah someday, and I can hardly
wait! I can honestly say that Compassion International and Florah have
been far more of a blessing to me, then I will EVER be to them!
Blog Address: xbeautyforashesx.blogspot.com
And this is from Wendy (Mom of 8!!!)
We have church on Wednesday nights, so the routine around here is that
my husband brings home pizza either on his way home from work or after
dropping off the boys for football.
We have a divided census over whether we should get Papa Johns or Dominos. Life's tough right? Not really. That's how a conversation started about children in other places who do have it hard. Really hard.
Sometimes small children can only comprehend so much about how other kids have it bad. Dirt floors, starving tummies, lack of clean water and so on. We kinda have these talks periodically because some of my kids are too little to remember a conversation we had 6 months ago. It needs repeating.
We ended up turning to how we can sponsor a child in another country and help someone who is deprived of so much. Someone who has so little while we complain over what kind of pizza we bought.
The children got extremely excited and all agreed that they wanted to adopt a child from China immediately. Unfortunately, we had to explain we can't adopt a child to live with us right now, but we can still adopt/sponsor/pray for a child through the Christian company Compassion.
They still were very happy and agreed as we all ran to look on the computer-- we immediately found a little 4 year old who everyone wanted to think of as a sister from another country: Lucie, who stole everyone's heart.
The kids have decided to save extra to send her a Christmas/birthday present because her birthday is 2 days after Christmas.
I think Sophia is the most excited, already drawing her pictures to send and constantly talking about how she loves her new sister in Burkina Faso; She wants to know if she can meet her one day.
I love my family and I love that we can help a little girl so far away. And who knows, maybe one day, Lucie can meet the 8 (soon to be 9) little people who live in America and love her already.
And this is my blog Pink Slippers.
We have a divided census over whether we should get Papa Johns or Dominos. Life's tough right? Not really. That's how a conversation started about children in other places who do have it hard. Really hard.
Sometimes small children can only comprehend so much about how other kids have it bad. Dirt floors, starving tummies, lack of clean water and so on. We kinda have these talks periodically because some of my kids are too little to remember a conversation we had 6 months ago. It needs repeating.
We ended up turning to how we can sponsor a child in another country and help someone who is deprived of so much. Someone who has so little while we complain over what kind of pizza we bought.
The children got extremely excited and all agreed that they wanted to adopt a child from China immediately. Unfortunately, we had to explain we can't adopt a child to live with us right now, but we can still adopt/sponsor/pray for a child through the Christian company Compassion.
They still were very happy and agreed as we all ran to look on the computer-- we immediately found a little 4 year old who everyone wanted to think of as a sister from another country: Lucie, who stole everyone's heart.
The kids have decided to save extra to send her a Christmas/birthday present because her birthday is 2 days after Christmas.
I think Sophia is the most excited, already drawing her pictures to send and constantly talking about how she loves her new sister in Burkina Faso; She wants to know if she can meet her one day.
I love my family and I love that we can help a little girl so far away. And who knows, maybe one day, Lucie can meet the 8 (soon to be 9) little people who live in America and love her already.
And this is my blog Pink Slippers.
