We spent today at the Peruvian Compassion office. We were greeted very warmly and were greatly blessed by joining in worship with the office staff, singing songs in both Spanish and English. Appropriately the songs were, I´m trading my sorrows and Light of the world You stepped down into darkness. Within the Peruvian office it was clear to see the blazing light of God´s love shining in the midst of extreme poverty.
We met the Peruvian country director, Cristina Zavala, an inspiring woman of deep faith and conviction and a very evident passion for her work with Compassion. Cristina described the impact of sponsors´ letters on the life of the child and gave examples of how life-changing the letters can be. Some formerly sponsored children now work in the office and described their own experiences with Compassion and how they now want to serve God through Compassion, impacting other children as they were.
We received a full office tour, seeing first hand how the administrative "clock ticks" so to speak. The translating of the childrens´ letter writing came across as an incredible activity. With a team of 39 translaters each translating between 200 and 500 letters per week it was easy to see the enormity of the task and understanding why letters can take 3 months to turn around.
If we took away anything from today it was that writing letters to your sponsored child is probably the most important thing you can do regularly - the children get so much from the encouragement you put in your letters.
So keep writing!
Alastair.
We met the Peruvian country director, Cristina Zavala, an inspiring woman of deep faith and conviction and a very evident passion for her work with Compassion. Cristina described the impact of sponsors´ letters on the life of the child and gave examples of how life-changing the letters can be. Some formerly sponsored children now work in the office and described their own experiences with Compassion and how they now want to serve God through Compassion, impacting other children as they were.
We received a full office tour, seeing first hand how the administrative "clock ticks" so to speak. The translating of the childrens´ letter writing came across as an incredible activity. With a team of 39 translaters each translating between 200 and 500 letters per week it was easy to see the enormity of the task and understanding why letters can take 3 months to turn around.
If we took away anything from today it was that writing letters to your sponsored child is probably the most important thing you can do regularly - the children get so much from the encouragement you put in your letters.
So keep writing!
Alastair.
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