Did you know one in seven people battle with hunger everyday? Did you know that more than 6 million children die each year from malnutrition? How about the fact that In developing countries, approximately 130 million children and teens have lost one or both parents? There are over 1.4 billion people in the developing world who live below the poverty line.

I didn’t know any of that either.

Until I became a Compassion Blogger.

Compassion International’s mission is to rescue children from poverty and its devastating effects-in the name of Jesus. They provide clothing, medical care, food, and the opportunity to attend school where they learn about Jesus’ love for them. Getting an education opens the door to a world outside of poverty for these children. Being in school keeps them safe from the dangers of the streets, especially the danger of slavery.

Would you join me in praying for these children? Compassion currently helps over 1.2 million children, and there are many more that are waiting for a sponsor of their own.

Ways to pray:

• Go to Compassion’s website and pray over the children listed there. Pray that they will get sponsored. Pray for them to know Jesus. Pray for their protection and safety.
• Look at the Sponsor a Child page and spend time asking God to reveal His heart for the poor to you.
• As we’ve done in our own home, sit down with your children and look at the site together. Open their eyes to have compassion to the least of these. Show them what the world looks like outside the comforts of their home. Help them to see how blessed they are.

This month is blog for Compassion month. The goal is to have 3,108 children sponsored during this month. Will you pray with me that all 3,108 children get sponsored?

“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” James 1:27