Compassion International

Photo by detzelpretzel on Flickr, all rights reserved

It began with a harmless post about Perfect Pot Roast on We Live Simply, one of the simple living blogs I like to read.  That led to a post on The Pioneer Woman about another blogger in Kenya.  That led to several amazing posts on This is Reverb about a trip with Compassion International.  After reading the posts on This is Reverb, and also following Shaun Grove's posts about the trip, I thought a lot about sponsoring a child through Compassion.

Other things happening at the same time...

At our church, some of the recent sermons have been about taking chances and putting yourself out there, getting involved and most important, LOVING OTHERS.  I couldn't help but think Compassion was a great way to put that into practice.

Then, while I was still considering sponsoring a child, I got an email from a family member, so excited, because she had just become a sponsor of a girl in Bolivia... through Compassion International.  She was the first person I knew personally who was involved with Compassion.  What are the chances all this would happen within the same 2 weeks?

Serendipity, fate, the hand of God?  I couldn't ignore the signs, and made the decision to sponsor a 6 year old boy who lives in Kenya.  If I'm very lucky, I might be able to travel to Africa some day and meet him. What else would a Rambling Traveler do?


Thank you to Ryan at This is Reverb for sharing the above photo from Africa.