"My Angel"

Missed Part 1?  Read it here - Love is an Action: How God Brought Me to Compassion

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June 2011

my first photo of Aprila

In the response from Compassion, Trisha asked if I would like to become a child correspondent. I asked my mom, and she said yes! I wasted no time e-mailing back and asking for a girl correspondent. Honestly, I think I mostly forgot about it after that.

Thankful to be able to check the mail (I have a couple pen-pals in the US) after coming home from camping, I saw a little package. How could I wait to open it until we unpacked?! So I may have torn into it and left my sister to bring stuff in. ;)

She started back at me. Kartini (she now likes to be called Aprila) from Indonesia was just precious! I fell in love with her then. Once we finally unpacked, I took the packet upstairs to my room. I read every word and wrote my first letter. I didn't quite know what to say, but I wrote anyway!

She was sent to me from God and my life has been changed because of her. Thus I call her my angel. She's just turned ten years old, and I can't imagine life without her!

Well, after her first letter came (surprisingly right after another camping trip!), I was hooked.

Stay tuned for Part 3: I Want a Friend

On This April 21

Hundreds have been waiting for this day, preparing for it, praying about it.  Thousands of children have been waiting for this day, anticipating, hoping, longing.

Today is Compassion Sunday.

For this national event, hundreds of people will be sharing their passion for Compassion with their church.  Excited and nervous, these sponsors will talk about Compassion's ministry and their sponsored children across the world.

It is expected that 10,000 children will be sponsored because of this day.  This is the day that the children have been waiting for.  No, they don't know it is Compassion Sunday.  But they are waiting for a sponsor.  They are waiting for hope and encouragement.  They are waiting to be chosen.  Today, many will be chosen.

Today, lives will be changed.  New sponsors will come to love a child they don't yet know.  They will trust God for the finances, and He will provide faithfully.  They will be rewarded and blessed in the months to come when they walk to their mail box and find that first cream colored envelop.  They will read the words of their child far away.

Today, these newly sponsored children's lives will be changed.  They will find hope and encouragement in their sponsor's letters.  They will find love and assurance.  They will begin to know that they are important and special.  Yes, they will know that they are loved by the King.

Join thousands of others and be a part of Compassion Sunday.  Sponsor a child.

Sponsor Yadira Today!

Yadira

Peru
Child ID: PE3420489
Age: 5
DOB: 4/4/2008

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And I want to wish you, dear Kartini, a very special tenth birthday!  Many blessings to you, my little angel :)

my first little Compassion girl

Kartini

Hello!

I have been checking a couple times almost every day since this summer to see if Kartini's picture had been updated.  And a couple nights ago, I saw the beautiful new picture of her!!

Here are all of her pictures-

I e-mail Compassion for this picture.  It was taken probably autumn 2009.

Kartini was eight years old in the picture.

Kartini is nine-and-a-half in this picture.

I am so happy to have a new picture of her!

Change a life!
Lizzie :)