Compassion International

We have three Compassion children in three different countries. One lives in the Philippines. We have sponsored James Bryan since he was eight, and now he is fourteen. It's been truly amazing to exchange letters with him and watch him grow. He always sends us a picture he has drawn, and copies of his report card. He's quite the student, and one picture I have of him shows him wearing about three medals around his neck for various scholastic competitions he has won. Really cool.
Albalania lives in the Dominican Republic. My daughter Erin has sponsored her for about four years. We were working a Compassion table at a concert, and Erin saw the picture of Albalania. She picked up the packet and told me she wanted to sponsor this little girl. If you could see the picture, and if you knew Erin, it would all make sense. This little girl had attitude. She's wearing a frilly yellow dress, hands on hips looking at the camera with a face that says, "Take this picture already, I've things to do!" Erin loves attitude, and she's been exchanging letters with Albalania ever since.
Kyle (husband of mine) sponsors Teshome, who lives in an AIDS infected region of Ethiopia. He's our newest child, and just turned 17 in March. They have only exchanged a couple of letters and in each letter Teshome has talked about how "affected" his town is with HIV/AIDS. Kyle is hoping to visit Teshome in Ethiopia in October...or maybe sooner. We're blessed with all the children in our lives, whether they are under our roof or in another country, on another continent.