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Embryo Adoption: A Unique Option to Give a Child Life

September 6, 2011

Guest Post Written by Erin Odom
Although Tiffany and Micah Childs have two biological children, the couple has always felt led to adopt. But the costs and steps necessary to go through an adoption agency were overwhelming.
"Lord, if this is for us, you need to make this simple," Tiffany prayed.
And God answered in a way the [...]

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Training Kids to Help in the Kitchen

July 28, 2011
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Knowing how to prepare real, whole foods is an absolutely necessary life skill that every child should learn. Children who are not taught the basics of food preparation will end up defaulting to processed, packaged foods, simply because they haven't learned to make anything better.
If we don't take the time to teach them, how will [...]

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Looking Through a Child’s Eyes

June 11, 2011

I am often in awe of how God has blessed children with eyes that are so pure and innocent.
Yesterday morning, I sat down on the couch to show my 4 and 6 year old the pictures from my recent trip to the Philippines as a Compassion Blogger. I found it difficult to look at the [...]

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Is Compassion International a Good Investment? A Husband’s Perspective.

June 6, 2011

**Many of you may have realized that I was blessed to have my husband, Ryan, come with me on my trip to the Philippines last week. Though we hadn't originally planned for him to join me in writing, he was so impressed by the answers to all of his questions (someone on our team referred [...]

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How to Pry Open Swollen Eyes

June 3, 2011

I've been hugged more this week than I probably have in the last year. I love it, but really? I'm just getting to the point where I want to go home and hug my own kids.
Ready to go home or not, this week has been full of good times...

I've had a rockin' ride in a [...]

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Because I’m Afraid That I Will Forget

June 2, 2011

I was washing some of my dirty clothes in the hotel bathtub this morning. Sweating profusely every day will make you go through what you packed in your suitcase in a hurry.
As I knelt over the tub and scrubbed the clothes, I was taken back to images of Filipino women squatting beside pails of soapy [...]

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Of Rubber Boots, Self Pity and Ladders

June 1, 2011

I met a woman who has water flooding her house, up to her knees, for 9 months out of the year. She has to wear rubber boots inside while she cooks and feeds her family.

She has two sons, and one is registered as a sponsor child with Compassion.
She also actively serves and teaches the 9 [...]

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What the Hands and Feet of Jesus Look Like

May 31, 2011

Weary to the bone, and emotionally upside down, my brain feels saturated with images and stories, but firing on too few pistons to really tell them. That's where I'm at as I attempt to write this post and somehow convey to you the brokenness and the hope that I saw and felt today.

Beautiful, brown baby [...]

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What Does It Take to Change a Life?

May 30, 2011

Though rather bleary-eyed from a day and a half of travel and far too few hours of shut eye (but thankfully enhanced by an amazing breakfast and stellar cup of coffee), our group headed off to the Compassion headquarters in the Philippines this first morning of our trip. The goal was to learn more about [...]

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Frugality as a Means of Giving (and Meet Keeper of the Home’s New Sponsor Child!)

May 19, 2011

Why do you practice frugality?
It's such a hot topic these days, how to save money and do more with less. We read about it, talk to our friends about it, put great amounts of effort into living it. What's less common, though, is to examine exactly why we do it.
Perhaps it's because money is tight, [...]

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