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Writing letters to your Compassion child
In the comments of the last post, Melanie asked what kinds of things I put in a letter to Greyci so that my letters aren’t always the same. It’s so easy to fall into a boring pattern of writing the same thing in every letter. I know I’m guilty of repeating myself. I became aware…
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Keeping Up with the Compassion Bloggers
Compassion International is conducting another blogger trip this week. This time in Kenya. I love following these trips and learning about what Compassion is doing to improve the lives of children all around the world. The first time I followed a blogger on one of these trips, I followed BooMama to Uganda. It was a…
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Count the Cost
Katie is a young woman who is mother to 14 children in Uganda. This is an excerpt of her most recent blog update: A few days ago an American woman who had spent about three days of her life in a third world country looked at me and said, “I would SO love to do…
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It is the poured-out life that God blesses
“‘If it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.’ Whether it is laid down in toil among the lost, or in travail of soul among His children that Christ be formed in them, either way there will be life brought forth. It does not follow that every seed will spring up; it is not so in…
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Three things we are incapable of doing
If we are going to be on mission with God, we must realize that there are 3 things that we are incapable of accomplishing in the salvation of sinners. 1. We cannot resurrect sinners from spiritual death. And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of…
Leslie Wiggins 