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Archive for April 2009
May I Make A Suggestion To The Bumper Sticker Department?
Compassion International isn’t a relief organization. It’s a child development organization.
In plain English, what that means is that Compassion focusses its efforts on meeting the physical, social, economic, academic and spiritual needs of children in the developing world. It’s holistic.
This is what Compassion does at every Compassion project in all 25 Compassion countries for all…
A Much Greater Hunger
A small wooden desk sat in one corner. A wooden bench without cushion for a chair.
A tiny bed, the size of a child’s, remains in an adjacent corner. Between them, one window.
There’s very little on the plaster walls – always was I bet: a picture of a pope, a letter in a frame, a…
India Packing Checklist
-Socks, underwear, new shirts, dress pants Compassion is forcing me to wear
-Deodorant, hair stick, razor, toothbrush, toothpaste
-Deep Woods Off, bacterial wipes, toilet paper, sunscreen
-Fifty zillion suckers and bottles of bubbles, one soccer ball and pump, hair clip thingies, six bags of kid socks, glow stick bracelets, kid toothbrushes and toothpaste, blankets
-Laptop, power cord, power strip,…
Yes, I’m Actually Asking You To Buy Stuff.
I remember my first few minutes with Gabriel. I knew in an instant that something was different about him but I couldn’t place it. Then it struck me and shocked me: No ears.
Gabriel was born without ears because a U.S. mining company poisoned his small town by pulling nickel from the ground using outdated (cheaper)…
I’m A Hypocrite. A Busy Hypocrite.
The worst thing one of India bloggers could do right now is stop blogging. We need every eyeball we can get reading our blogs as we prepare to leave for India on Friday and start blogging from there on Sunday. But I’m just too slammed to blog myself right now.
We’ve got some trip details to…
About Shaun — Shaun Groves is a communicator who’s known by a lot of titles: Singer/songwriter. Speaker. Blogger. Husband. Daddy. Friend. He feels and thinks deeply and laughs easily. And he’s helping Christians discover what they were saved for, and being a voice for children around the world, desperate to be saved from poverty.
