Guest Blog: All the way from Africa
April 30th, 2008 @ 4:33 am
before we get to blogging…i thought i would update you guys with the unofficial count of malaria nets you donated in the 50 hour challenge last week…somewhere around 110 or so in under 50 hours!! and that is just from here…so many of you spread the word and i know many more were donated! thank you so much!
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today’s guest blog is actually from two guest bloggers…our compassion child in ethiopia (abdukerim, he just turned 6!) and from our compassion child in uganda (linet, she is about to turn 10! i met linet on our trip).
from abdukerim:
Chris & Anne Jackson,
How are you? Praise God! I am alright! I enjoyed Christmas by worshiping at the church and with my family at home. With your Christmas gift (about $15 USD) I got a blanket, a t-shirt, purchased some Christmas presents, and the rest was handed to me. God bless you! How did you celebrate Christmas? Pray for my family! Goodbye!
and from linet:
Chris & Anne,
I greet you in the name of Jesus Christ! Linet is fine and very happy to communicate to you. She says…
I was so excited to meet you at the hotel the last time you visited Uganda. I was SO SO happy and also grateful that you love, care, and support me and my family.
I hope you arrived in your country safely. I pray for you and you will always be in my prayers. Thank you very much for all the gifts you brought and gave me. Thank you for the two teddy bears, play dishes, photo frame, utensils, toys, scarfs, bubbles, the two bedsheets, stickers, flute, jump rope and for the bracelets. I love them very much and I will use them well and accordingly.
I love you very much and I will study very hard at school. God bless you!
chris and i got the letter from abdukerim one day, and from linet the next. we’ve only been sponsoring them both for under a year and we have gotten 2-3 letters from each of them. the front of our fridge is mostly covered with them.
communicating with your compassion child is so important. shaun shares about daniel, a boy he met while he was visiting the dominican republic last week. all daniel wants is for his sponsor to write more. you need to read shaun’s post. for reals.
if you’re not currently sponsoring a child, you can explore that a little bit here.
Compassion International
Susanne said,
April 30, 2008 at 6:48 am
Awesome! I can’t wait to get my packet in the mail!! We pray for Paola every night, and we can’t wait to learn more about her.
Angie said,
April 30, 2008 at 8:23 am
“I love them very much and I will use them well and accordingly.” Dang. How convicting. I mean, for real, how many times do we get something and suddenly claim all rights to that object..thinking we can do whatever we want with it? Rather than treating the gift with utmost respect and being a good steward with it because someone cared for you enough to give it to you. Wow. Those kids are wise.
Joni said,
April 30, 2008 at 8:56 am
Um. Wow. Speechless.
The Secret Life of Kat said,
April 30, 2008 at 9:29 am
I’ve had “write letters to our Compassion kids” on my to do list for a couple weeks now. (I’m a terrible letter writer…)
I think today is the day to get that task completed. Thanks for the reminder…
Crystal Renaud said,
April 30, 2008 at 9:57 am
when i got my first letter from Mediatrix, i fell to ground just weeping. literally fell to the ground. i just couldn’t believe God would bless ME by my giving to this beautiful girl. but no doubt He has. through her writing me, i know what my measly $32 a month does. i know how protected, loved and cherished she is through Compassion and that brings a kind of happiness to my spirit i am not sure anything else on this earth could.
Crystal Renaud said,
April 30, 2008 at 1:08 pm
where did the compassion widget? i see compassion’s widgets on their site, but not that one.
Linda Sue said,
April 30, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Getting letters from our “boys” is such a thrill - they usually do pictures also but are learning to write our names and theirs in English - sponsorship is the best gift to ourselves ever.
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