By Juli Jarvis Compassion Sponsor, Advocate and Area Coordinator I had the pleasure of returning to the Dominican Republic, having gone there in 2002. On my first trip, I met a precious boy named Francisco who was in need of a sponsor. His neighbor told me his family desperately needed Jesus, and...
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Today we returned from our visit to projects in Barahona. These projects had never had sponsors visit them before so it was very exciting. View several photos from the last two days. We split up into three groups. One went to the Haiti border and two others visited projects in Barahona. I was in...
Today we all got to meet our sponsored children, Winifer. Many of us were very nervous. What would we say? Would we recognize them? Would they recognize us? My wife and I will never forget the moments before we were introduced to Winifer for the first time. We started crying watching the others...
The title of this blog comes directly from the mouth of a formerly sponsored child that spoke to us this evening. He was referring to letters that sponsors write to their child. This child is now in the Compassion Leadership Development program attending college. We started off with a devotion and...
After most of us got a good solid three and a half hours of sleep we all joined up in the lobby ready to face another exciting day of seeing Compassion at work. Our first visit was to a project where the children put on great performances of singing, sign language and one little boy even recited...
Praise God, we all arrived safely in the Dominican Republic. The crazy thing … it is 4 am. But everyone is in good spirits and is anxious to go to bed in order to be ready for tomorrow. What caused our late arrival was a broken window seal on the front of the plane… first they tried...
Fifty-one sponsors and Compassion employees head to the Dominican Republic for a week, Jan. 12-18, 2008. We welcome you to join us on this amazing adventure into learning how Compassion is releasing children from poverty in Jesus’ name. During the trip we’ll feature a variety of...