In January of 2011, My husband and I decided to sponsor a child. We checked out a bunch of organizations and found Compassion was the one for us. So, Alejandro joined our family. What a special boy! He is 3 years old and lives in Honduras with both of his parents and 1 sibling. I haven't received a letter from him yet so I'm not sure if he has a brother or sister.
A couple of weeks later, I had been reading other blogs about correspondence sponsors and decided to add on to our family. So, we added Nsengimana and Niyomugabo. Both boys are 18 and from Rwanda. I am really excited to be able to write to these young men. They have sponsors that pay for their sponsorship but are unable to write. So that's where I come in. I get the privilege of being able to write to these young men and remind them that Jesus loves them and so do we.
I really enjoy sitting down every two weeks and writing something to each of them. I don't always write a long letter but I try to send something twice a month. I just really want them to feel how important they are to me and my family. I also really enjoy sending them things that they probably don't have as available as we do, like stickers, scribblers, cards, coloring pages, etc.
In sponsoring these boys, my faith and relationship with God really has grown. I'm starting to understand a lot more about what sponsoring is all about and how important writing to them really is. I'm learning that through writing, they know and feel that they are loved and that they're special. I'm learning that when your living in poverty it's so easy to believe that your not worth anything and I don't want anyone to feel that way. I'm also learning that we have a lot of things that we take for granted. These things are not ours but God's. He gives them to us as gifts and trusts us to use them to honor and glorify him and to help those who have less.
So here's a bit of our story for now. I hope that you enjoy it.
I would love to hear your story!
