Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Letter Writing Nights - Guest Post by Yvonne


Yvonne is a wife, mom, homeschool teacher, and Child Advocate with Compassion International. On her blog, she shares about some of the daily happenings in their life.

After my son and I became Child Advocates with Compassion International last fall, I decided that we needed to be the ones to encourage other sponsors to be writing letters to their sponsored children. We knew there were people at our church sponsoring children with Compassion because a friend of ours came and had done a Compassion Sunday presentation about a year and a half ago. At that time, we collected pictures of the sponsored kids and have been putting them on a world map so that our church family can be praying for all of these kids.

For our first Sponsor Letter Writing Night back in September, I was able to share about the new online letter writing tool. We also made Christmas cards for unsponsored children that night.
Our next Sponsor Letter Writing Night was held about a month later and we wrote out the words to our favorite hymns to share with our sponsored children. In December, I found a tutorial for making paper snowflakes out of coffee filters. We made a bunch of these to send to our kids. Then in January, we made Valentine's together. I have been trying to collect ideas on my Compassion Pinterest board (http://pinterest.com/yvonnereynolds/ ) so I am ready each month with a creative idea to make for our kids.



At each of our Sponsor Letter Writing Nights, I encourage everyone to bring letters from their sponsored children so we can share them with each other. I also try to share something I have learned about Compassion and let them know about any upcoming events they can work at with us. We have been hosting these Sponsor Letter Writing Nights once a month on a Friday night which seems to be working well right now. And I try to have a yummy snack or dessert.




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Thank you for sharing your ideas with us, Yvonne! This is very timely for me because I am holding my first letter writing party at our church this Friday!
1 reply · active 694 weeks ago
Thank you Jill for allowing me to share!
That is so wonderful! I am slightly discouraged as I have been scheduling monthly letter writing gatherings after church on the third Sunday of every month and no one has been showing up.

These gatherings have the potential to really inspire sponsors and I am always happy to hear about how advocates and sponsors are coming together for this work!
1 reply · active 694 weeks ago
Michelle, I would say keep at it! Maybe try another day/time of the week unless this day/time works best for your family. We have been really enjoying the time together sharing letters, drawings, and pictures of our kids!
A great reminder for me to get another meeting scheduled for February. Mine were well attended, but the holidays threw us off track! Thank you!
1 reply · active 694 weeks ago
I encourage you to put a date on the calendar before your February fills up! :o)

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