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Links Sort by: Date | Hits | Alphabetical10 Days, 14,000 Feet and 19 Children
June 23, 2008 21:47:56Hello again. It’s Kees. I’m about to take a trip to Bolivia, where I can meet many of the children that I sponsor plus several others too. I’m so excited right now!! I’m stoked. I think I spelled that right.
On June 27, I’m taking off from the Orlando airport and flying into Miami, where [...]
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10 Questions With Scott Todd, Special Operations Director
March 31, 2008 07:39:32This week we continue our 10 Questions series on Compassion’s holistic child development model with Brandy’s interview with Dr. Scott Todd, Special Operations Director for Compassion.
Compassion’s Complementary Interventions (CIV) activities, which include the AIDS Initiative, are headed by Scott Todd. Scott, a pediatric AIDS expert, is passionate about meeting each and every need of the [...]
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2008 Compassion Sunday Update
May 10, 2008 07:47:07Be forewarned. What follows is pure rah-rah. It showed up in employee inboxes … from MARKETING. It’s just a small glimpse into the response Compassion Sunday 2008 has received so far.
We’re at over 9,700 children sponsored. Our goal is 22,000. It’s not too late to host your own event.
“Austin Bluffs Evangelical Free Church [...]
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A Day of Fasting and Prayer: Join Us
June 17, 2008 16:11:30June 25 is a day of fasting and prayer at Compassion. We’re fasting and praying for the children we sponsor, for their families and for our local staff and church partners in the developing world. We’re fasting and praying because the global food crisis is devastating many of their lives.
The price for rice, beans, corn [...]
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A Flickr Photo Focus on Leadership Development
May 15, 2008 07:20:37See the photo? The one at the top of the page. It was done by one of you.
Eric Chapman (aka chappyphoto) took it. He’s a friend we met by way of our Flickr group.
We liked his photos so much we asked if we could use one in our blog’s header. Then we asked if he [...]
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A Letter to My Fans
May 19, 2008 11:39:21SUBJECT: One on One with Anthony Njoroge
To all my fans,
Based on the many emails, letters and phone calls I have received I’ve decided to give you an opportunity to ask me any questions as you would like.
As part of this, I have already hired quite a number of secretaries and personal assistants to help [...]
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A Little Can Mean a Lot
May 28, 2008 07:22:33Our SpotLINK guest contributor today is A. She currently serves as a worship leader and choir director. She blogs at Be Thou My Vision and co-maintains Women in Worship, a site connecting Christian women who are passionate about worshiping and serving God through music and the arts.
I remember when I first felt God leading me [...]
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A Message to Mothers
July 2, 2008 19:41:34My name is Lisa Miles, and I have been a sponsor with Compassion for two years. My husband and I sponsor a 9-year-old boy in Ethiopia, and we have a correspondence child who is 17, also from Ethiopia.
I am not a Compassion exec or even a Compassion advocate (yet!), I was never a sponsored child [...]
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A Quick Thanks
June 4, 2008 01:30:58For the month of May, these non-employee blogs referred the most traffic to our humble site. Thank you very much!
Rocks in My Dryer - 409 visits
Love Well - 120 visits
musings of foreign hearts - 60 visits
challies.com - 55 visits
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A Response From YOUR Fan
May 24, 2008 07:06:27SUBJECT: Responses to One on One With Anthony Njoroge - A Letter to My Fans
Do you have a favorite Bible verse or story that has personal meaning to you?
Yes, I do. My favorite Bible verse is Lamentations 3:21-25. And if you read the whole chapter you’ll see why even more.
My favorite Bible story is the [...]
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A Smart Risk
June 14, 2008 07:20:50Shaun Groves wrote this post. It’s been approved by the powers-that-be.
About Shaun Groves
Be careful going around having ideas and talking about them. You might just get put to work. That’s what happened to me.
About a year ago, I think it was, I started talking to the folks at Compassion about a crazy new idea. I [...]
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Any Guesses?
June 2, 2008 23:39:24Compassion has 10 partner countries, in addition to the U.S., all of which sponsor children in the developing world.
We work in 24 countries, soon to be 25 when Togo begins registering children later this month.
As of May 30, sponsors from the U.S. alone support more than 608,000 children.
Which country do you think has [...]
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Are My Letters Really That Important?
May 20, 2008 07:15:06My name is Boer, James Boer. But you can call me Kees, which is pronounced “case.” My middle name is Jacobus, which translates to James. See, I’m Dutch, which means I grew up in the Netherlands, but doesn’t necessarily explain why I’m a Compassion Advocate, but I am … Dutch and a Compassion Advocate.
As I [...]
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Are You For Real?
June 25, 2008 18:20:51A co-worker of mine, Candace Perry, broadcast the following note to her Facebook friends Tuesday night. It’s striking.
It’s after work and I’m in my business casual, walking through the mall having just bought a not-so-scrumptious dinner of Sbarro’s pizza when I see a sad sight before my eyes.
A girl, probably about 12 years old, of [...]
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Are You Okay With Dung?
May 9, 2008 07:02:27In his book The New Friars, Scott A. Bessenecker tells a story of living and serving a garbage community in Cairo with his family and some college students. After a month, “what at first was repulsive — rotting garbage piled everywhere, animals feeding off the trash, mothers climbing rubbish mountains with their babies playing [...]
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Ask the Field: Uganda and the Philippines
June 17, 2008 07:20:43Have you ever wondered what it’s like to live in the country where your sponsored child lives? What it’s like to work for Compassion? What gets the people going who do this work each day? If so, now’s your chance to “Ask the Field!”
Ask your burning questions of our staff from around the world about [...]
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Ask Wess
May 7, 2008 07:38:56Our president, Wess, is a smart man. (He’s also very humble so unless you ask him, you might not be aware of just how many interesting things he knows.)
Raised in Africa, a one-time resident of Haiti, he’s got a fascinating life journey. Thanks to all his travels and experiences overseas, he knows about many [...]
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Because of Compassion
June 9, 2008 07:46:42See what our friend Eric “chappyphoto” Chapman has done. He created a Servant Life video from his trip to the Philippines. Actually, he did the sound and music. The rest was done under the keen direction of Taylor Robinson at Student Life.
Now, you can read about it and watch about it … uh … yeah. [...]
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Blogging Works … Or Does it?
May 11, 2008 01:15:22Blogging gets children in poverty sponsored.
Here’s da proof that blogging works.
Be Thou My Vision
flowerdust.net
429 children sponsored as a result of the Uganda blog trip.
And here’s da rebuttal.
The Search Kindly “Money Thermometer” shows that only $203 has been raised for Compassion this month.
Using highly complex advanced math skills that bend the imagination as well [...]
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Caption Please
May 12, 2008 07:54:08
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