compassion international

If my children grow up to be average Americans I’ll have failed them as a parent.

If they spend four hours a day watching other people live on a television screen.  If they’re bored.

If they go to school to get a job so their kids can go to school so they can get a job so their kids can go to school...If they’re without purpose.

174 bloggers got an e-mail from me this month asking them to post about the global food crisis, the Global Food Crisis Fund and Compassion’s Day of Prayer and Fasting (today, June 25th).  They got this e-mail because they took the time to visit CompassionBloggers.com and sign up to receive monthly blog “assignments.” Every month they get an e-mail asking them to blog about a specific C

In case you missed it, I now work part-time for Compassion International running this thing we call Compassion Bloggers.  Every month I’ll be sending out an e-mail (to folks who sign-up for it) asking bloggers to post about a specific Compassion-related need.  Last month, for example, it was a campaign to buy malaria nets.  Thousands of dollars were raised through the efforts of

CompassionBloggers.com has launched.

Thanks to Ben Stewart (who built the entire site), Nancy Tyler (who wrote the great copy on the home page), Anne Jackson (who was a fount of great feedback/criticism/ideas/encouragement) and the small army at Compassion International who made sure I said and showed the right things the right ways. (Branding guidelines.  Gotta love ‘em.)

Just got off the phone with Jerry from Compassion International‘s office in Colorado.  Jerry is working hard to help pastors talk about poverty in their churches and let Christians in churches know what they can do (with Compassion) about child poverty.  THis called ”church engagement.”

Today, 16,000 children will die from hunger. Today, 1,500 children will become infected with HIV. Today, nearly 5,000 children will die from diseases caused by unclean water and poor sanitation. These statistics reflect the devastating reality of poverty—and they can be overwhelming.

Stainless steel. Cell phone batteries.  These require nickel.

I visited a community in the Dominican Republic today where nickel is mined by a U.S. corporation.  In this small community dozens of children have been born deaf mutes - some born without any ears at all and others born with additional birth defects like white hair or Down syndrome.

We Americans love low prices.  For everything.  Take, sugar, for example.  Ever wonder how the price is kept low?

If all went well I’m in the air right now, heading to Miami first, and then on to the Dominican Republic.  I’m traveling once again with Compassion International but this is a trip like none other I’ve been on.