Kids I am Advocating for...

I am a new advocate and just got the advocate box in the mail with my first two packets (saw it on the doorstop this morning).


The first child I am advocating for is:

Kalkidan Ejara.

Her birthday is October 8, 2006 and she is from Ethiopia.
She is a beautiful girl with a big smile on her face (makes me melt)..  She is wearing a pink sweatshirt and shoes and gray pants.  She is from an AIDS-infected area/country.  She lives with her father and mother.  Her dad is not employed and her mother is sometimes employed as a laborer.  She does errands and cleaning, and loves to play house, play dolls, hide-and-seek, etc.  She is in primary school and her performance is average..  Her ID # is ET-112-0475.  Her child center is Asko Kalehiwot Student Center.

The second child is:

Brian Alexander Cisneros Lopez

His birthday is April 26, 2000 and he lives in El Salvador.
He is a Priority child, as he has been waiting over 7 months for a sponsor.  He lives with his parents, and his dad is sometimes employed as a farmer, and his mother maintains the house.  There are 3 children in the family.  Brian helps make beds, run errands, and cleans.  He enjoys soccer, bicycling, and playing group games.  It says his performance is above average in school so that is great!  He is a cute young man.  His ID # is ES-821-0076 and his center is:  Liberacion Integral Student Center.

If you would like to sponsor either of these children, please let me know so I can get you signed up and the packet in the mail to you.  Please leave a comment on here and I'll get back to you.

Thanks so much!  I will continue to pray that I can find these two sweet children sponsors.  Please pray for them as well.

I am a new Advocate!

After already promoting Compassion International on here, Facebook, the OurCompassion Forum, as well as at a few Compassion Intl. tables at concerts, I finally took the next step and became an official advocate.  I filled out the form, did the advocate training phone call, and received my advocate number and link.  Now I am just waiting on the kit that they will be sending me in the mail in the next month, but until then I will keep spreading the word.

If you have any questions about becoming a sponsor with Compassion International, feel free to comment and I will get back to you.  Otherwise you can go to Compassion.com to learn more as well.

If you know you want to sponsor a child, please click on my link below (or copy and paste it), and it will take you to the spot to see the info and pictures for kids who are awaiting sponsors.  You can search by country, age, gender, birth date, and so much more.  There is definitely a kid out there that will melt your heart (they all do for me!).

I pray that you consider sponsoring a child to help change their life.  You can write to the child and you will receive letters back from them.  Over time you will build a relationship with them that will be a bond for a lifetime.

Please click on the link below :)


http://www.compassion.com/sponsor_a_child/default.htm?referer=128998

Merry Christmas!

I know its been a months since I last posted anything but life has been busy!

The end of November we went to Rome, Assisi and Florence in Italy and had a great time seeing all of the churches, old buildings, countryside, and so much more.

It took awhile to catch up at work, but I did in about a week.  Then throw in the holiday season with decorating, making cookies, and shopping and December went by fast!  I have spent the past month working on scarves for presents so that has been fun, challenging, and annoying at times (the rolls of yarn I buy keep ending up with knots...not from me, but from the manufacturer cutting it and then just putting a big knot in it halfway through the thing...very frustrating!).

Since my last post, we received a new correspondence child with Compassion International.  Her name is Flor and she is from Peru.  She just turned 10 years old and is the cutest thing ever.  She brings our count up to 5 kids total.....3 girls, 2 boys.  She is also our 3rd child from Peru now, so if that isn't a sign that we need to go visit Peru, I don't know what is :)

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.  May God's love bring you peace in the holiday season.

More Compassion Kids Got Sponsored!

On Saturday night we helped at the Compassion International booth at the Newsboys concert in Eden Prairie, MN.  There were 4500 people in attendance so it took a lot of us to pass out packets, as well as collect the sponsorship forms during intermission.  We went fast though, and by the end of the concert we had another 207 kids sponsored!  Praise God!

After the concert, those that had sponsored a child were able to get in line to shake hands and get an autograph from the Newsboys, so that was special seeing them all excited.  The Newsboys were impressed with our sponsorship number as well, so that was a good thing.

I pray we get even more sponsored at the next event.  I really enjoy helping out.

New Correspondence Child

We have been waiting a few weeks for another correspondence child to add to our Compassion International family.  Guess who showed up on our account on Friday?

Yessica!

She is from Peru and is 12 years old (13 in March).  I was just checking out our account page on Compassion International when I noticed that she showed up.  I was so excited that I wrote to her right away, as well as emailed Compassion to request her history.  They said she has been in the program since 2007 with the same sponsor, but that sponsor only wrote her 1 letter in 2007 and 1 letter in 2008.  That means she hasn't received a letter in 4 years!

Well all that has changed.  I wrote her online on Friday (which they will print out directly in the Colorado headquarters...saves mail time).  I also wrote an actual letter and included paper, stickers, and a picture of us for her first packet from us, which I put in the mail today.  So already I've written as much as her old sponsor did in 5 years and its only been 5 days :)

I can't wait to her back from her (which of course will take a few months probably to receive her first intro letter).  It is always nice knowing their interests so you can send stickers and stuff based on that a little.

I also noticed the weird fact that 3 of our 4 Compassion kids have birthday's on the 5th (of different months).  5 must be our lucky number.