today, my sweet irabizi from rwanda turns two whole years old! i sponsored him when he had just turned one, so i’m also getting ready to celebrate a whole year of knowing this precious boy and his family. it’s been such a privilege to watch this boy grow over the last 12 months, and i hope there are many more birthdays that we can celebrate together.
{p.s. aren’t his little baby toes just the cutest thing EVER?!}
last week {or maybe even the week before…} i was super excited to receive a wonderful first letter from the cutest little girl ever – four year old evis from colombia! it was totally unexpected, because i had only been assigned her as a correspondent four weeks earlier {so the letter is addressed to her financial sponsor, but i don’t mind that!}. she’s such a sweetheart, and i’m so excited to get to know her more.
personal information
name: evis age: 4
my family
rosa (mother) evan (father)
my best friends
mariana (age 4),
valery (age 4),
camila (age 4),
breiner (age 4),
paula (age 5),
my preferences
favourite hobby: dancing and singing
favourite food: chicken and salad
favourite subject: math
favourite animal: dog
favourite colour: pink
questions for my sponsor: what is your name? where do you live?
bible verse for my sponsor: please read psalm 43
message for my sponsor: may God bless you. i am evis’ tutor. i am writing on her behalf because she cannot write yet. evis is sending warm greetings and big hugs to you. she lets you know that she attends school. she is doing well in her studies. she can already count up to five. she likes to sing and dance. evis enjoys attending the program activities at this compassion-assisted project where she is taught about God. she says goodbye and prays many blessings on you.
my drawing
isn’t this sweet girl just fabulous?!
i recently received another wonderful letter from fourteen year old chelsea in ghana. her letters seem to be coming every other month like clockwork now, which i am so grateful for. as she approaches graduation in just a few short years, i’m becoming ever-more grateful for the opportunities i have to speak into her life and share with her the love of Jesus.
dear michelle moorer
thank you message for sponsor: i thank you for the lovely letter you sent me. i really appreciate it.
child’s response to sponsor’s questions: -left blank-
child’s new experiences at project/home/school/community etc: at project i have learnt how to treat someone who has injured him/herself
question for my sponsor: do you have a brother?
prayer for my sponsor: i pray that God will guide you in everything you do
prayer request from child: i want you to pray so that i pass my exam
memory verse: romans 5:8 “but God shows his love for is in that while we are still sinners, Christ died for us”. amen.
child’s drawing:
i love this drawing – what girl doesn’t love flowers and glitter?! i love the letters i get from my older compassion children, and chelsea is no exception. she was my first ever correspondent child, and i have been so unbelievably blessed by her over the last eighteen months. my prayer is that i will be able to keep corresponding with her until she graduates the program.
i didn’t like this challenge. partly because it’s been ages since i’ve actually participated in one, partly because, from looking at the examples, many who have participated have visited magical places across the world and have got some really beautiful photos of old temples and beautifully tiled buildings. where have i been? manchester. not quite the same thing {although i do still hold a whole lot of love for that place}.
flicking through the photos on my phone from a random road trip to oxford, i found some really beautiful photos of when we walked round the gardens. because patters don’t have to be on a building, right? i’ve decided to embrace more natural patterns for this challenge. because, sometimes, it’s okay to be a little bit different.
if i’m going to be honest, this week is turning out to be long, and not that great. but i’m so thankful that God is not dependent on my emotions, and He isn’t surprised by my angry words and long silences. what a comfort it is to know that He is in complete control. because of this, i knew it was especially important for me to take time and think of all the things that i am thankful for this week.
}. seriously though, i’m so excited to have her home, especially because we’ve already decided on a carvery dinner next tuesday!!
today, my very first sponsored child, sweet cristin fron indonesia, turns eight years old. i’m in a whole lot of denial about this. cristin was just five years old when i sponsored her just over two years ago, and now she’s turning eight! what is happening?! time is going just far too fast.
Cristin aged 5
Cristin aged 6
i love this sweet girl more than words could ever say. she’s taught me so much over the last two years, and i feel so blessed to be called her sponsor, and to have her call me ‘sister’. my heart is full.
i emailed compassion this afternoon to see if there were any old photos of my sweet new correspondent child, rendi. i was surprised to find two very, VERY cute photo of my sweet new boys. in the first, he’s five, the second was taken just before his seventh birthday and his current photo that was taken last summer, when he was eight years old.
this month, it made me very sad to learn that one of my compassion children, sixteen-year-old rosa from colombia, had left her compassion program. rosa had been sponsored for me by a friend, and he very kindly offered to sponsor another child and to allow me to be the correspondent.
i posted rendi on my blog a few weeks ago, because i’d seen him on the compassion website for a little too long and, after chatting to a very lovely lady at compassion, i found out that he had been dropped by his sponsor ten months ago and nobody had picked him up since. this made my heart break, so when my friend offered to sponsor a new child for me, there was no doubt in my mind that rendi had to be the child, especially because he lives in indonesia – a country that has well and truly stolen my heart.
so here he is! rendi is nine years old and celebrates his birthday on the 30th of january. Rendi lives under the care of his parents. His home duties include running errands. There are 4 children in the family. For fun Rendi likes playing football and playing hide and seek. He attends Sunday school & church regularly. He attends school where his performance is above average.
i so love his expression in this photo, and his sweet ears! i feel so incredibly blessed that i get to love on this little guy, and that his really long wait has come to an end!
not only did we receive a brand new photograph of elizabeth this month, we also received a wonderful letter from her, telling us all about her holidays!
(for the record, i can’t stop looking at her new photo and smiling from ear to ear – i can’t believe how well she looks, and that she’s wearing the t-shirt that we sent her!!)
my favourite national festival/holy day is: epiphany
my favourite foods to eat during celebration are: fried chicken
at the project we celebrate Christmas on: 18th december
my family celebrates the new year on: 1st january
hello dear sponsors. how are you? i hope you are doing well. i am writing you on behalf of the child, elizabeth. she sais she is very happy to be able to write back to you and she thanks you very much for all your attention and letters. she says she likes epiphany day very much because of the toys they give her. her family and her had a happy new year. she asks, how did you do in Christmas time and new year? she asks for prayers for her father for God to protect him. nos she says goodbye with a big hug.
in amongst the ever-growing pile of letters from my compassion children was this letter from nine year old krisna in indonesia. i was pleasantly surprised when this letter arrived, because it was my second in a month from krisna, but i like getting letters from my boy, so i’m not going to argue
hello michelle. i’ve received your letter. thank you for caring me so much.
on Christmas vacation, my friends and i visited our neighbours. it’s our tradition every Christmas. may you also had an awesome Christmas.
my friends and i lit the fireworks on new years eve. it was fun.
do you have any special plan this year? i’ll be waiting for your reply.
that’s all for now. krisna.
krisna has been writing his own letters recently, so they have been shorter than they used to be, but i’m willing to make that sacrifice to see his darling nine-year-old-boy handwriting..!this kid is seriously the sweetest, and he always makes me smile.
