Compassion

As many of you know, we sponsor a little girl in Haiti named Lourdie...we haven't had the opportunity to meet her but have joyfully watched her grow over the last 5 years. Her letters have changed during this time...she used to draw us pictures of animals and bugs...now she's branching out to trees and such. After the devastating earthquakes, we are still waiting for news of her and her family. She is at least 50 miles from Port au Prince, and we pray daily that she is well.

I heard about Compassion through a Youth Gathering of United Methodists and felt a tug to sponsor. It has been a true blessing...Compassion is a wonderful organization...and truly work to better the lives of the children and their families...it's not just handouts.

Someday I hope to meet our "other" child...to look into her beautiful eyes and know that in some small way, we helped to make her life a little better.

I read some posts today about a group who are visiting their sponsored children in Kenya...this was how they were greeted:

Grand Entrance from Ryan Detzel on Vimeo.

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