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What people are saying about child sponsorship with Compassion:More than 700,000 people throughout the world are sponsoring children through Compassion today, including many Christian leaders, artists and speakers. Once people get involved, they have great things to say about Compassion's Christian child sponsorship ministry. Here are just a few of those thoughts.
 | | Heben Tesfaye, Ethiopia
"After I was registered in the program I started hearing about Jesus. We talked about more of Jesus in our Sunday Schools and we saw a film about Jesus. I prayed to God that I knew I was a sinner. Then because God gave me Jesus Christ I know I am saved… I want to be a minister or serve the Lord in his house… [My sponsors] mean a great thing to me, because they are helping me. Their hands are stretched to me."
| | Back to top> |  |  | | Alma Cortez, Hernandez, Mexico
"My sponsor has helped me out a lot. It's not only what she gives me, but I just feel she helps me out a lot… For me it's very important that she writes me letters and I can write her letters and we can be in contact. When I write her I tell her about what I'm doing in school and about Christmas and about holidays. And when she writes me she tells me those same things. So I think it's very important to maintain contact."
| | Back to top> | |  | | P. Vandhana, graduate, India
"…My [former] sponsor is a nurse in the United States. [She] always encouraged me to study. I told her that I had joined the nursing course. Then she wrote to me and said this is a really tough job but I still encourage you to study regularly, it will be very good for you… The sponsorship provided education, my books, my school fees, my uniforms, and also my pastor, and the good fellowship of my friends.
Now I am working at the hospital. I am going to the patients and giving care to them and knowing their problems and helping them… I turn the love of Jesus to the ones that are affected by diseases. So I really enjoy my job."
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Steve Giddens
"Vladi's mom thinks sponsors are angels. Vladi, the people at his project, and the people at the project my church worked with called me padhrino, a godfather. They explained that I was helping a child grow, even though I wasn't immediate family. I was helping a child see God's hand in his life… As I saw how Compassion operated with the two local church projects I visited in Bolivia, I began to understand. My support of Vladi puts him in a wonderful atmosphere to learn and thrive. The tangible benefits of sponsorship are there for him, too."
| | Back to top> | | Lois Pierce
"Not long into our visit at Luzifabia's home, she pulled out an envelope with my picture and every letter I'd ever sent. I found out quickly that her family knew about me, too. Luzifabia's mother was happy to see me, and we had a good visit together. Sponsorship is making a much bigger difference for Luzifabia than I'd thought. For her family, it provides enough for them to get chickens because my support through Compassion relieves the economic pressure to send Luzifabia to school."
| | Back to top> | | Jane Fruscella
"I wish I could find a way to say to people how important children are, that if we don't do something for the children of the world, we're lost as a civilization. We have to save our children. They're very important. They're our future. They're the only future we have… Sending a check is very important. But the personal relationship that you have with this child and the child's family is totally incredible, because they think we're very special, and we're not. We're just people. But they think we're very special. And we think they're very special."
| | Back to top> | | Mike Skillman
"About four and a half years ago, my wife and I decided we were going to sponsor a Compassion child. Even though it wasn't something we could totally afford, we relied on God's faithfulness… We were just totally amazed by the incredible work that was being done. The school [where our sponsored child attends] is doing an amazing job of training these kids to become the future hope of Brazil, to pass along Jesus Christ."
| | Back to top> | | Lanny Woolfolk
I've never been associated with any organization with the level of commitment and integrity that Compassion has, top to bottom, and I'm honored to be a part of it. | | Back to top> | |
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India
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