Every one of us wants to make the world a better place. We want to live in a world where conflict is replaced with peace, poverty with provision, sickness with health, injustice with justice.
But sometimes when I look at our sick, broken world and the magnitude of the problems and wonder, “What can I possibly do to change it?”
Well, I believe the secret to changing the world is this…
Change one person’s life.
Take a child who is shackled by poverty, disease and hopeless. Provide him with food and clean water, medical care, education, and in the context of a church that will show him that he matters to God. He can pursue a career that helps his community and enables him to raise a family. He passes that legacy on to his children and his children’s children, and by virtue of changing that one boy’s (or girl’s) life, you have changed the lives of dozens of people.
Who knows out of that family may come future teachers, doctors, engineers, pastors or even presidents who will impact thousands or even millions of people.
There’s no one who does this more effectively than Compassion International.
If you want to change the world, ~~> Sponsor a child today!
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OK, if I have ever helped, encouraged or inspired you in any way, would you do one small favor for me that will take just 60 seconds?
Just click here and spend 60 seconds on this page.
September is Compassion’s Blog Month. As a “Compassion Blogger” I’ll be blogging once each week about Compassion. This week they challenged us to see how many people we can get to visit the Sponsor a Child page. So, even if you don’t intend to sponsor a child, just visit the page as a favor to me. 🙂
But who knows, maybe you’ll be inspired to change the world.
One of my all time favorite stories is about the starfish.
A young girl was walking along a beach upon which thousands of starfish had been washed up during a terrible storm. When she came to each starfish, she would pick it up, and throw it back into the ocean. People watched her with amusement.
She had been doing this for some time when a man approached her and said, “Little girl, why are you doing this? Look at this beach! You can’t save all these starfish. You can’t begin to make a difference!”
The girl seemed crushed, suddenly deflated. But after a few moments, she bent down, picked up another starfish, and hurled it as far as she could into the ocean. Then she looked up at the man and replied,
“Well, I made a difference to that one!”
The old man looked at the girl inquisitively and thought about what she had done and said. Inspired, he joined the little girl in throwing starfish back into the sea. Soon others joined, and all the starfish were saved.
Great story, Harold! I had never heard it with others joining in and saving all the starfish but I like that version. Surely the little we can do on our own DOES make a difference, and if our service inspires others to join us then there’s no limit to what can be done.
Thanks for sharing Paul
Good Stuff! Thanks for telling us about this!
TYVM to bo th of you, Paul & Harold, for the wonderful example you give to all of us! :-)))
Hi Paul
For many years I’ve sponsored children through World Vision another Christian based charity. As I’m not a christian the only thing I don’t like about Compassion International is that it pushes christianity instead of valuing the positive within that cultures religion or philosophy.
Thanks Robert. I’m glad to hear you’ve sponsored children through World Vision. They are another great organization making a huge difference in the world.
While there certainly are some positive values within every culture, I believe there is nothing that changes a persons life as much as when their heart is transformed through knowing Jesus. True change comes from the inside out. 🙂
As the KJV reads, “And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.” 1 Cor 13:13 Good deeds done in love. Blessings…
Thanks Jason.
Thanks Paul for sharing. What about the adults that make that child go hungry and no where to go.
I think it’s important to teach the adult’s first by education, kids to day are having kids before they know how to live, make sense.
You can’t save a child that got nowhere to go after it’s cruel. You give them hope where there are not much hope out side your church.
Hi gizmo4me2, thanks for the comment. I’m pretty sure Compassion’s programs are designed to help a child until they are fully educated and able to work and be self-sufficient, that way they have hope and somewhere to go afterwards.
But if you have a passion for helping adults, go for it! You can change the world by helping to change the life of one adult too.