Lesley - I stumbled across your blog a while ago and read your World Vision post a short while later. You totally motivated me to sponsor a child so I did some research and I finally took the plunge today! Thanks for being such an inspiration. :)
Kelly - Could you be any sweeter? I love this detail about you!
Karen (Mikols) Bonar - Mel, Niger is nothing like the Africa you saw .... or the parts of it I visited were not. Niger is the poorest country on the planet, with an insanely corrupt government ... if you get the chance, you should really go .... I have a whole new appreciation about so many things in life (I came back and almost hugged my trash collectors!)
Alicia - Yikes, I'm the same way, Melissa! It's been awhile since I last wrote my little girl in Brazil. It's so neat receiving letters back from her when I do. She's so in love with the Lord, even at such a young age and she wants to be a doctor or vetrinarian when she grows up. : ) Did you know that World Vision also allows you to send little gifts to your sponsored child as well? As long as it fits in a 5x7 envelope and doesn't go against their list of things not to send, you can send it! : )! You can send tee shirts, dresses, toys, a little purse, etc. I even heard of one sponsor sending the child a disposable camera with a return package to send it back in and develop, but I think that World Vision stopped allowing that one. : ( It certainly would have been cool to see life from their perspective and taken in their village! : )!! I used to sponsor a little girl in Armenia and she was so sweet! She used to send drawings and even dried flowers where she lived. Gosh, do I miss her! Have fun getting to know your sponsor child! : )
Blessings,
Alicia
Michelle D. - I needed this! I sponsor through Compassion and have only wrote one letter! Tomorrow I will be writing again! Thanks!!
Kristin - Yeah! We sponsor through WV too. I admit that I have the "write a note and send a pic" on my to do list as well. We believe so much in World Vision and my husband set out to work for them (and is, in fact, working there). It always warms my heart to hear stories of sponsors and their sponsor children!
Courtney - I have the same "disease" Melissa! I finally just sat down and did the same thing for the kids we have sponsored in Honduras for the last 2 years. I felt like a loser too... especially since they are sending us handwritten letters and cute drawings once a month!
Here's our start for doing better though, right? :)
Cristi - i used to be bad about writing too, now every time I write a letter I prepare an extra envelope and put it on my magnetic board. It makes it really easy to write again. I love getting letters from my sponsored child. So fun!
YGuerrero - Hi Melissa! your heart must feel very, very happy for this! besides a check mark on your list ;) Blessings!
Brenda Landrum - Oh my! I have had this on my mind for months now, to sponsor a child through World Vision, but have just not gone through with it. It is constantly in my ear with on the radio and now your blog post. I need to stop 'thinking' about it and just do it. :) Inspiring Melissa!!
clay - not a loser - strike that from your thinking...way to show love!
Dennis Bullock - What a fantastic program! I am going to have to check into signing up!
Shannon S. - Good job friend! This is a very important goal to check off and I'm proud of you.