Jesus talked more about this thing he called the “kingdom of heaven” or the “kingdom of God” than anything else. He said he came to bring it here to earth. It IS the Good News he preached everywhere he went. It was important to him. It’s odd then that when… Read More
Archive Tag: Uganda
Answers To Some Of Your Questions About Compassion International…So Far
Does all of my $32 go to my sponsored child every month? A minimum of 80% goes toward meeting the physical, metal, social, economic, educational and spiritual needs of your sponsored child. That’s high by comparison. The actual percentage right now is 83.8. Am I the only one sponsoring my… Read More
Saved For
My apologies to my regular readers, but there are about 2,000 newcomers who haven’t seen this. What is this? This is the reason I sponsor kids through Compassion. This is the reason I travel the country spreading the word about Compassion. This is why you should sponsor a child. Sponsor… Read More
One On One
Sharon will be four in May. But she looks much smaller than that. She lives in a one room “house” with her mom and three siblings. Dad took off and mom works but her best efforts can’t make ends meet, and can’t give Sharon immunizations, clothes, three meals a day… Read More
Cheap Miracles
Our hotel is holding faster internet access hostage. They want $1000 to speed it up and even then there’s no guarantee. So, it takes me five hours, at least, to post anything to my blog (My site’s server “times out” constantly at this slow speed, no one else is having… Read More
And Then There Was Hope
Yesterday was so difficult to take in that a couple bloggers called it a day around noon and stayed in their rooms to process it all. It was a day of despair and little hope. We nearly drowned in the statistics alone: 50% of the population in the region we’re… Read More