When someone says they want to sponsor a “child” they’re often referring to younger children 4-8 years old. For that reason older children are often overlooked by new sponsors. And yet, older children living in extreme poverty struggle too…
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I always wondered was what exactly happens after a student is done with the Compassion sponsorship program? Many of my questions were answered when I met Anthony Njoroge…
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Was it really less than two weeks ago that I was boarding an airplane for a 23-hour flight to Africa? There are times in my jet-lag-induced stupor where all of it seems surreal. I’ve read the posts I wrote while I was there and it almost seems like someone else wrote them. Maybe someone else did…
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My wife wrote me several cards and packed them in my luggage to be opened on certain days of my trip. The card I opened today challenged me deeply. This is what it said…
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One of my favorite parts about this trip has been seeing bright, happy faces of all the Compassion sponsored children we’ve met. And ultimately, that’s what this is all about, right? Here are some of my favorite photos we’ve taken of the children we’ve met this week…
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Just when I thought my heart couldn’t break any more, we drove to our Compassion project today and saw this – roof after rusty roof of the Mathare Slum, one of the largest and most congested slums in the world…
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Last week I introduced you to Ivon Magoma, our newest sponsored child from Kenya. I met her briefly on Wednesday when we visited her project in the Kawangware slum but I got to spend the entire afternoon with her today at Mamba Resort…
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There is something especially amazing about the beauty of children’s voices lifted in song, especially these beautiful Kenyan children we met yesterday at a Compassion project…
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One of the things I love is Compassion’s one-to-one focus. What that means is that every child sponsored through Compassion is linked to just one sponsor. Through the sponsor-child relationship, a deep bond is developed as letters and photos are exchanged…
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A couple of weeks ago Shaun Groves called to ask me if I was interested in working on a benefit concert he was organizing called Help Haiti Live. Even though my work schedule was full I knew I couldn’t turn down an opportunity to donate my time and talents to help…
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