pull out your phone or a pencil {Compassion}

August 26, 2016

In February of this year my oldest son and I traveled to Ecuador with Compassion International as part of a blogger trip. I won’t go into all those details again, but you can access those posts here.

Hundreds of you joined us and became sponsors for children living in poverty. Today – this post is for you.

Months have passed and maybe you have written your sponsored child regularly or maybe you started strong and it has been a bit since you last wrote. I want to encourage you to write your sponsored child today. Sometimes we all need a little nudge to be reminded to do things that deep down we really want to do, but life distracts us.

I also know many of you may still be waiting for a letter from your sponsored child. In any country it takes a while for letters to make their way to sponsors. It is a tremendous undertaking to get letters from every sponsored child. In a country like Ecuador that has recently faced a huge natural disaster – well, it complicate the process more. We typically get 2 letters a year from our sponsored kids. Seeing how much effort and man power it takes to get letters to sponsors, I am celebrating even getting 2!

On the flip side, letters are delivered monthly to Compassion Centers. Your sponsored kids are waiting to hear from you. They are waiting for your pictures. For your stories. For your notes to simply say you care. Being a sponsor is a selfless act and in the case of sponsorship it often means pouring into a child without any expectations.

I’ve seen the faces of kids reading letters – what seems small to you, is huge to these kids.

I wanted to give you a peek into the Compassion headquarters in Ecuador. When you write your sponsored child, your letter first arrives here. The letters are translated here and then divided up by centers before being delivered monthly.

What starts with you sitting down to write a letter or pulling up the Compassion app to type one leads to something extraordinary….