Write to Your Sponsored Child

I'd like to think that writing letters to your sponsored child is a no brainer....but the reality is that for many, sponsorship goes no farther than writing a check. And now with the convenience of automatic payments, many sponsors go months or even years without giving their child a second thought.

Let's STOP this nonsense.

Here are some facts....sponsorship is NOT about money. Yes, Compassion needs your monthly, financial support to implement their program, but all children waiting for sponsors are already participating in Compassion projects. When a child is sponsored it means they have a new friend; someone to love them, pray for them and encourage them through letters.

When I was in Peru this past summer, we asked some children what we could tell their sponsor if we knew them. One girl said, "I want to ask my sponsor why he doesn't love me." Upon further questioning, we discovered that her sponsor doesn't write letters to her. In her mind, this translates to him not loving her.

Most Compassion projects will have their children write reciprocal letters. This means that when you sponsored child receives a letter from you, they will respond. This is not the case for all projects, but your regular letters are still just as important.

I aim to write once a month, others aim for twice a month. Pick what works for you and do your best to stick to it. There is a group, a letter writing club, that writes on the second Friday of each month.

Michelle, at Blogging From the Boonies, writes regular posts encouraging us to write to our kids. She has written some great devotions we can share and has so many ideas of how we can spruce up our letters. Please visit her blog and spend some time reading.

I'll leave you with a picture of our recent batch of letters. Easter is soon approaching so I copied an Easter themed picture on the back of our written letters and decorated them with fun stickers.