Rased

Sheikh Rased Uddin

EI-158-0140

August 6, 1998

Rased makes his home in India with his father, mother, and sibling.  He is 15 years old.  In his home, he helps out by carrying water, teaching others, and buying/selling in the market.  His father is sometimes employed as a farmer, and his mother maintains the home.

Rased enjoys playing ping pong, playing soccer, and swimming.  His performance in middle school is average.  He regularly attends activities at his church, VBS, and Bible school.  His project also provides him with health checkups, special celebrations, cultural programs, tutoring, educational materials, and vocational training.

I am advocating for Rased until November 29, 2013.  If you or someone you know would like to sponsor this young man, please contact me at lizzie4compassion@gmail.com  By sponsoring him, you will be providing him with opportunities to learn and grow physically, mentally, and spiritually.  

Please pray for Rased and for his future sponsor.

Let's go to Bolivia!

Last September, the Compassion Mobile Experience came to a town about an hour from me.  I was taken to Bolivia and India.  I walked through the streets and saw the hope that the Compassion project brought to Ruben and Brinda.  I touched Ruben's red table that he bought for his family.  He used the skills Compassion taught him to get a job and buy that table.  And I listened as Brinda told her family how the God of the Bible was the one true God.

In the semis holding the stories of three former Compassion children, the homes, projects, and communities of the children are duplicated with such accuracy that you feel like you are actually there.  As you walk through the rooms, you listen to the narration of the child's story.  And at the very end, you watch a video of the former sponsor child taking you to those places.  Then you know that everything is just right and so real.

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I see the e-mail.  It's coming again!  This time it is closer, just 30 minutes away.  And I go to Kingdom Bound and I help out a tiny bit with Compassion.  I realize that there is no way I cannot go again.  But this time, this time, I will work it.  

Then this shows up in the mail-

And I count the weeks.  I don't have much time until September 7, and I know it'll go quicker than I think it possibly can!  I don't have much time to tell everyone that they need to go.  

So I'll call up everyone I know and send out e-mail and hang posters.  

This time, all it costs to go to Bolivia or India or Uganda is the gas to drive to the nearest place it is coming to you.  Compassion: Change the Story - Events  

Currently, it is scheduled to go to NY, OH, GA, FL, MS, LA, and TX.  But check back often, cause the places it goes keeps growing and you don't want to miss this!

Compassion: Change the Story

Another Photo Update or Two!

First of all, happy birthday Grandma!!  I love you so much :)

Wow, for not getting letters this week, I have had a great Compassion week.  I have gotten three photo updates in four days!!

I already shared Lucie's photos, so I will now show you the photos of...

Aruna in India-

taken spring 2010

August 2011

taken April 2012

and Juan in Mexico

his first ever Compassion photo and probably photo, taken September 2011

taken April 2012

I am so glad to see that most of these photos get updated every 18 months.  I love seeing how they grow up!  Out of these three photo updates, I think Juan's has the biggest difference.  He looks cleaner in the new one and just so much older! :)

Have you gotten any photo updated recently?

Compassion Mobile- Change the Story

Hello!

On Thursday I was able to attend an awesome event!!  Compassion Mobile is so cool.  It tells the stories of three children living in poverty.  It shows their lives before Compassion and how their lives changed because of Compassion. 

Each story is only twenty minutes long.  You get to go through a realistic representation of the child's home, Compassion project, and other places the child goes to often.  The stories are of real children who have graduated from Compassion's sponsorship program.  The best part is- it is probably going to be near you!!

I really recommend you go to Compassion Mobile.  I loved hearing and seeing the lives of children in India and Bolivia (I couldn't see the Uganda one).  My family and I traveled one hour away to see it, and I think it was worth it.  I have heard many stories of lives being changed by Compassion, but actually seeing it is even more awesome!

Change a life!
Lizzie