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Saturday, 28 May 2011
The Compassion Bloggers Are At It Again!
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Compassion International
Compassion Bloggers: Philippines 2011
The Compassion Bloggers are taking another trip. This time to the Philippines. Five bloggers and three trip leaders are going to be blogging about their interactions with Compassion International and the Compassion kids in this great island country. It is always a blessing to read the posts of those who are contributing. Just click on the banner above to get to the official trip site.

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Thursday, 24 March 2011
Do you have a heart of Compassion?
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Compassion International

We got a surprise in the mail a couple of days ago. Our first letter from Yvone (Rwanda), our newest correspondence child arrived! What a precious girl she is. Then, the next day, we got a letter from Marcelo (Bolivia), our first Compassion child. He is a wonderful young man as well.

We have grown to love all of our Compassion kids very much. The letters made me realize that I hadn't posted anything about Compassion in quite a while. I love their videos. They are constantly coming out with a video that tells about a new aspect of their great organization. Their newest video just came out a few days ago. Enjoy!

 

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Monday, 7 March 2011
Have you met Yvone?
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Compassion International

A few weeks ago I announced that we had decided to correspondence sponsor another child with Compassion International. Niyonsenga Yvone from Rwanda is our first girl. We haven't gotten our first letter from her yet, but, because of prayer and the love that God has already given us for her, she has become a part of our family.


I periodically check out different websites to look for inspiration for my blog. If you have been reading Families Again for any length of time, you already know that YouTube is the place that I get most of the videos that I use from. Today I was checking out videos from Compassion International and, to my great delight, one of the most recent videos added was one about Rwanda, where Yvone is from.

So, without further adieu, here is Rebecca Saint James talking about Compassion's work in this African country.

 

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Tuesday, 22 February 2011
Trying to get back to some normalcy!
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Compassion International

After the events of the last couple of weeks, I've decided it's time to try to get back to some normalcy in my life. I know that there are folks that have been reading this blog and praying for my family and the different situations. I really appreciate all of your prayers. But, it's time to try to get back into a routine. I need to write more about outside things and stop focusing on myself.

What better way to get your focus off of yourself than to think about others that are far less fortunate. And, is there a better organization to do that than Compassion International?

Here's a short video that talks about an aspect of Compassion International that most folks don't know about - their Leadership Development Program (LDP). Compassion takes the brightest students that have gone through their program and invites them to apply for the LDP program in which Compassion will help pay the LDP students way through college. College is something that would be unheard of for most kids that come from the areas where Compassion works but not with the kids that Compassion works with. Take a look at this video done by the 1000th student to graduate through the LDP program. If you wish to know more about Compassion International or the LDP program just click on one of the hi-lighted links above.

 

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Wednesday, 2 February 2011
Well, I wasn't going to say anything but...
Mood:  happy
Topic: Compassion International

We did it again! We've taken on another correspondence child from Compassion International. If you remember, Compassion has many companies (or even individuals) that give quantities of money to sponsor a child or many children but can't are aren't willing to write to that child. Writing to the child is a big part of Compassion's ministry, so, Compassion began the correspondence program. That's when another sponsor can sign up to write to a child that doesn't have anyone that writes to them. You then become that child's correspondence sponsor. We sponsor one child through Compassion - Marcelo from Bolivia and have four other boys that we correspond with - Feyber from Colombia, Somi from Indonesia, Emmanuel from Tanzania and Ismael from Nicaragua.

Well, John Allen and I had a great idea for a Christmas gift for Sarah. We requested another correspondence child and, you probably can guess from the font color, this time it's a girl. We thought that perhaps a girl would make Sarah a little more interested in Compassion. Up until now she has listened to the letters and prays for the kids, but the writing has always been mine and the boys thing. Well, she's promised to write to whomever Compassion sends to us. We didn't get her for Christmas, but received word the other day that Niyonsenga "Yvone" from Rwanda is our new daughter!

Sarah was particularly excited that she goes by Yvone because Yvonne (two n's) is a family name. Both her mother's and sister's middle names are Yvonne and I think it goes back even further than that. Anyway, here's our new Yvone's picture and information. She is 13 years old and her birthday is June 20. Please pray with us as we write and try to disciple Yvone. Her father is dead and, although it seems her mother is alive, she lives with her grandmother. Thanks for all of your prayers for Yvone and our other Compassion children. If you want to know more about the Compassion program please click here. You  won't regret it!

Niyonsenga Yvone


 

 

 


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