Steve’s Excellent Adventure

What a great day for us to praise God for the 1 millionth child being sponsored through Compassion International.  What a great day to celebrate what God is doing around the world to “release children from poverty in Jesus name”.  In fact, our neighbor, Mark Hanlon was on Fox and Friends today to make this announcement.

He addresses the fact that secular media marketing groups have recommended taking the name “Christian” or “Jesus” out of everything having to do with the organization.  And that this would increase donations.  Well, Compassion is unashamed of our Christian roots, and will, in fact, make Jesus name even more prominent.  Which shows why they are such a great organization.

This is the official announcement from Compassion…………..
It is my great privilege to introduce you to Fellow Blewussi Kpodo, our one millionth sponsored child! Fellow is eight years old and he lives in Togo with his father, two older sisters, and one younger brother. And he now has a very bright future!

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And who better to stand alongside this precious little one than the world’s strongest woman?! Fellow’s sponsor is Jang Mi-Ran, a long-time Compassion supporter and Olympic gold medalist weight lifter from Korea. So, the strongest woman in the world is now sponsoring one of the most vulnerable children in the world

I went to El Salvador last year as a photographer for Compassion. While there, I met and sponsored a child from San Vincente(I think that was the name). The church affiliated with the Compassion project is a big one that was funded by a church in San Salvador. I was VERY impressed with the pastor there.