Blogging gets children in poverty sponsored. Here’s da proof that blogging works. Be Thou My Vision flowerdust.net 429 children sponsored as a result of the Uganda blog trip. And here’s da rebuttal. The Search Kindly “Money Thermometer” shows that only $203 has been raised for Compassion this month. Using highly complex advanced math skills that bend the imagination as well [...]

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Be forewarned. What follows is pure rah-rah. It showed up in employee inboxes … from MARKETING. It’s just a small glimpse into the response Compassion Sunday 2008 has received so far. We’re at over 9,700 children sponsored. Our goal is 22,000. It’s not too late to host your own event. “Austin Bluffs Evangelical Free Church [...]

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In his book The New Friars, Scott A. Bessenecker tells a story of living in and serving a garbage community in Cairo with his family and some college students. After a month, “what at first was repulsive — rotting garbage piled everywhere, animals feeding off the trash, mothers climbing rubbish mountains with their babies [...]

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I’m in Guatemala right now, taking a handful of sponsors and radio broadcasters on a trip to see how Compassion is changing the lives of children in poverty. And I just had to share something that hit me today. I’ll try to keep this short because the internet service here is so iffy that I [...]

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Our president, Wess, is a smart man. (He’s also very humble so unless you ask him, you might not be aware of just how many interesting things he knows.) Raised in Africa, a one-time resident of Haiti, he’s got a fascinating life journey. Thanks to all his travels and experiences overseas, he knows about many [...]

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A few weeks ago my little girl Brooklyn asked me for some cookies and milk for herself and her 2-year-old brother. They sat down in front of the TV in their pajamas (we call them jammies at our house) and watched their favorite DVD while I served them cookies and milk. That’s when it hit [...]

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Here’s something very easy you can do to help children in poverty. Use Search Kindly as your search engine during May. (It’s powered by Google.) Buy Kindly! Make your Amazon.com, eBay, iTunes, Target and Wal-Mart purchases through the Search Kindly homepage. There are many other popular retailers [...]

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Tell me if you can relate to this: When I first started sponsoring my Compassion child, I clung so tightly to that one picture I had of him — my one lifeline into his world. OK, so I knew from his bio that he helps his mom wash dishes and loves art, but I would [...]

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About six years ago Compassion’s headquarters moved to our current building. It’s waaay up north on the very edge of the Colorado Springs city limits. Back then there wasn’t much around. (Not so anymore, though. Colorado Springs is included on the list of fastest growing cities in the U.S.!) But back when we first moved, [...]

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In case you missed our live malaria intervention webcast on World Malaria Day, here it is. Learn at your leisure.

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