See this sweet face??
This is the little boy we’ve just started sponsoring with Compassion International.
His name is Emerzon and he lives in Honduras. He’s 3 years old – just a couple months older than Brooke.
I’m very excited to have finally started sponsoring a child through Compassion. It’s something I’ve wanted to for quite some time since I’d read about it from other bloggers but the time was never quite right.
At the beginning of the year, I began to really start considering it again. We’ve done well with our plan to pay down debt and we’d heard the message at church about what Pastor Chris calls “Giving 2.0” – regular giving, not just coming to the rescue in times of tragedy or disaster.
I’d pull up the Compassion website and browse through all the children waiting for sponsors and hem and haw about it.
Then during our “Hero” series at church, they brought a speaker from Compassion who’d been sponsored as a child and now as an adult speaks on behalf of Compassion to share his story.
That was the final push I needed. They had a table in the lobby with packets of information for children waiting to be sponsored. I got Brooke from her class and explained to her what we were about to do. We went out to the lobby and sorted through the available children. I’d wanted a child close to Brooke’s age. My hope is that as they both grow, Brooke will get a better understanding of the differences in her lifestyle and her blessings and those of our sponsored child.
We found a packet of a little boy who was born in July of 2008. Brooke was born in September of 2008. It was a match! We’ve sent off our first introduction letter and I look forward to getting letters from him as well.
If you are so inclined, we’d love to have you include Emerzon in your prayers. Or if you’d like to take it one step further and sponsor a child yourself, you can click on the graphic below for more information.
