Cute Peru Girl That Needs a Sponsor

We love all our Compassion kids and today I found one with the same first name as our Flor from Peru:

Flor Esperanza Valencia Amaya
Birthday:  August 4, 2009 (so she is 4.5 years old)
She lives with her parents and there are two kids in the family.

If you would like to sponsor Flor, please click here


If you sponsor her, please let me know and I can try to take a small gift to her when we visit Peru in a few months.  Thanks so much.

Or if you would like to sponsor a different child from Peru (or any other country really), please click on the below link to be directed to the Compassion website.

Click here to sponsor a child

Peru kids that need sponsors!

While browsing on the Compassion site I came across some kids from Peru who need sponsors still. Our Peru kids hold a special spot in our heart as they are great letter writers (about every two months on schedule!). We are going to visit our Peru kids in May so I'd love to get some more Peru children sponsored before we go.

If you do sponsor one of the below kids, please let me know and if you want, I can take a small baggie with a gift for your child when we go to Peru (you can mail it to us).

Just click on the link by each child if you would like to sponsor them. Thanks so much!

Leydi 
She is 9 years old (looks much younger in the picture so she'll probably have an updated picture soon, or she might just look young for her age).
Birthday: March 16, 2004 

 Click here to sponsor Leydi

Fabricio

He is 5.5 years old and his birthday is June 28, 2008.  He is a cutie!

 

Click here to sponsor Fabricio 

Or to search for other children in Peru or around the world, click here 

Going to Peru to Visit our 3 Sponsored Kids!

In May we will be traveling to Peru with a group trip for Compassion International. On this trip we will get the opportunity to see several Compassion International projects to see the work they do with the kids, church, families, etc. It will be a wonderful experience, and best of all we will get to spend the day with our 3 kids from Peru (2 sponsored and 1 correspondence child). They will get the opportunity to travel to Lima to meet us there for child visit day. Yessica and Said each live about a 14 hour drive away from Lima (not sure if they will fly them there or take a really long bus ride), but Flor lives pretty close to Lima so it won't be far for her. The last couple of letters Yessica has said "See you soon" at the end of the letter (probably meaning that she'd write again soon). Little does she know that this will be a reality soon! And a year ago Said mentioned his goal would be to someday get to go to Lima....well that is coming true now too! I can't wait to make these 3 kids days by visiting them, hugging them, and letting them know how special and loved they are.

Thankful

This month as part of the Compassion Blog assignment we were asked to pick one word for the upcoming year. I have selected "thankful" as my word. I am thankful for so much in life! I am thankful to God every day for being alive, healthy, safe, and loved by him. I am thankful for my Compassion kids. I love getting letters and kind words from them, and I love being able to write to them as well. They are my "kids" since we don't have any ourselves yet. I love them to pieces and am thankful to be a part of Compassion International in this way. I am thankful for my husband. He works hard for our family and is a very devoted church going guy. He's great. I am thankful for my family (parents, brother, in-laws, etc.). They are all great too and I can't imagine life without them. I am thankful for our house and neighbors. We live in a great family friendly area with neighbors who go out of their way to plow for me, have us over for supper, etc. They are wonderful. I am thankful for my job (and my husbands). Although I don't always like my job (or aspects of it), I am thankful for the paycheck that allows us to travel, support our Compassion kids, afford our house, etc. This coming year I will try to remain thankful, as it is easy to forget all the good things we have to be thankful for when one bad thing happens. We need to have joy through the bad times, as Jesus taught us.

Donate to help those in the Philippines

After the recent typhoon in the Philippines, many people are in desperate need of food, water, clothing, shelter, and basic necessities.

Please consider donating today to the relief fund with Compassion International.  To do so, you can go to this page:

Click here to donate