COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL Responds to World Food Crisis

Fund Established to Help Countries Cope with Price Increases
(*Press release: Compassion International)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., May 28, 2008 – Compassion International has created the Global Food Crisis Fund to deal with a problem that experts say is sweeping the planet.
U.N. officials have called the global food crisis a “tsunami” that could plunge an additional 100 million [...]

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Is This What You Prayed For Today?

As you may (or may not) know, I maintain a daily prayer calendar on the Jesus + Compassion Group on MySpace. Today’s prayer moved me that after I posted it on the group, I reposted here to draw some much-needed attention to it. Today’s prayer reads:
Pray that the 1, 840 un-sponsored children registered in Tabora, [...]

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A Sacrifice of ‘Biblical’ Proportion

And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19
If you are a Christian there is a very good possibility that you either have this verse highlighted in your Bible, or have it inscribed upon some object or picture in your home. It certainly is a [...]

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Out of Oakhurst

Just wanted to say that I am going to be out of town until Thursday (and can you believe it, I don’t own a laptop yet).  I going to Compassion International Hqs in Colorado Springs, CO for their Wednesday chapel service and a luncheon.   God is good to me.  Is He good to you?
Anyway, I [...]

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Top Ten Reasons to Forget the Past

… But one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead… Philippians 3:13
In chapter 13 of the Book of Numbers, twelve spies were sent to spy-out the ‘Promised Land’ and ordered to bring back a report. As quick as you can (and of course without [...]

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Dear Sponsor: a Letter From Rwanda

The following letter was written by Ruzamba Niyomwungeli (*originally posted on the “Compassion Blog” by the Compassion Blog Web Team), a 24 year old graduate of Compassion’s Child Sponsorship Program. It was written in Kinyarwanda and translated into English at the Compassion Rwanda country office.
Ruzamba Niyomwungeli’s letter to his sponsor…
I really do not know what [...]

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Food, Flooding, and Economic Crisis

Updates From Compassion International
UPDATE: May 14, 2008 – Food and Economic Crisis in Bangladesh: the global food crisis continues to wreak havoc in Bangladesh as people struggle to remain hopeful a solution will come soon. The average price of food has increased 22 percent in the past week, making it difficult for the average worker [...]

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The Only Good Sponge is a New Sponge

Do all things without complaining and disputing, that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast the word of life… Philippians 2:14-15
I am not very fond of sponges—essentially they gross me out. [...]

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How is it Working Out For You?

Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. Philippians 2:12-13
Oh, Now I Get It
I always [...]

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Joy

But I want you to know, brethren, that the things which happened to me have actually turned out for the furtherance of the gospel… Philippians 1:12
The fact that Paul was in jail when he wrote so many of the Epistles is so critically important to our personal walks with Christ. By Paul’s example we might [...]

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