It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

As you may know, we support Compassion International.  We feel like it is a solid organization who provides so much for so many underprivileged children around the world.  The connection that you can make with a sponsored child helps you and your children feel involved in a personal way as opposed to just giving money to a general organization.  And Compassion has consistently been ranked very well by organizations who audit non-profits for how they manage their money and how much of donations actually go to the children.

We sponsor a little girl in Rwanda that we sponsored after Charlotte was born.  We chose Ingabire because she and Charlotte share a birthday.  We recently sponsored a little boy in Belize who shares a birthday with James.  We hope that by sponsoring children with such a special connection to our children will help them identify with our sponsored children and learn so many lessons as they are growing up about giving back,  helping those in need, being Jesus to others, and how we have something in common even with someone with as different a background.

In the past I have blogged about ways to help the children of Compassion that don't involve sponsoring a child.  I have another way that you can do that today.  Compassion is ready to accept Christmas cards to be sent to unsponsored children.  Children could wait for months on the waiting list before being sponsored and these Christmas cards will help those children feel connected during such an important time.


You can Christmas cards for these children to:

Compassion International

Attn: Suzanne Hall

Colorado Springs, CO 80997

Compassion will translate any messages that you write in the cards and then get the cards to unsponsored children.  Because they need time to translate the messages and get them distributed, they must have all cards in hand by NOVEMBER 4th!  Something that takes so little time, effort, and money could make a child's Christmas.  If you are willing and able, God can use something so simple to make a big difference in a child's life.