It’s Tuesday already!  Can you believe it?  I can’t.

Anyway, here’s the run down.  Each week I choose on child who has been waiting for longer than six months to be sponsored.  On the other days of the week four other bloggers do this as well.  It goes like this:

• Toby Keathley – Monday
• Andy McMahon | Crucial Encounter (Me) – Tuesday
• caffeinatedfaith – Wednesday
• shawnw.org – Thursday
• Andrea | Shalom  Existence – Fri

Here we go.  Get your hearts prepared, and check it out.  Say a prayer, ask God to speak to you heart.

Name:       Carlos Alberto Rodriguez Rivera (PE5010138)
Birthday:     March 15, 2003    Age: 5
Gender:     Male
Region:      South America
Country:      Peru
Program:      Rio Seco Student Center
Personal and Family Information:
In his home, Carlos helps by running errands. He lives with his father and his mother. His father is sometimes employed and his mother maintains the home. There are 2 children in the family.

Carlos is not presently attending school. Playing with cars, art and playing group games are his favorite activities. He also attends church activities regularly.

Because of your sponsorship, Carlos will have new opportunities to learn and grow physically, mentally, and spiritually. Thank you for your concern and prayers.

GUYS!  Let’s send this kid to school. Let’s give him a chance!  Please if you can find it in your hearts, I am sure you can find it in your wallets.  Again.  Click here, or on the picture above to sponsor Carlos!

God Bless.

I feel like I have been seeing God a lot more lately.  I don’t know if I was doing something wrong before, or if I was just too blind to see him, but lately, it’s been “in-your-face-here-I-am amazing.”

I was talking to a guy named Larry at church a few weeks ago about the song “Amazing Grace”.  I can’t seem to not cry when I hear it.  I tend to be a person who hates songs that are played out, and if any song is played out, I think it’s “Amazing Grace” but, I have to say, that song penetrates the depths of my heart, and stabs me.  The words, the feeling, the meaning.  I mean.  Wow.  Right?  

I have been lost, and now I am found.  It’s a wonderful feeling.  At the same time, it’s scary.  It’s an intimidating feeling.  To know there is a God that will love you no matter what.  It’s like… I don’t know words to describe it, but it is slightly intimidating.

I do know that in a month and a half, I am going to be a husband, and finally I have an example of love.  I finally have a portrait of what true love should be, and what I need to strive to achieve.  That is soothing to my soul.  It takes away some of the anxiety.  Because one thing I am good at is screwing up, and with a perfect, loving God, I know I can do anything through him.  

I have taken on new passions, with God.  I have decided that I can do something good.  I decided that there is change needed in this world, and God has opened the door for me to persue that.  With the internet, with my words, and with my love.  I have a role model I can look up to.  I was blind, but now I see.  

Wow. Just look at these kids.  Four children have been sponsored!  Four children that are equal in the eyes of God, finally get a chance! Because of the internet, and possibly because I decided to put them on my Blog!  It’s a pretty insane feeling.

 To me, it makes all the politics minute, it makes my problems seem silly.  Just to look at these pictures, and think of the smile on their faces when they heard they were finally sponsored.  When they heard they might eat a meal a day.  When they heard, someone somewhere out in this crazy world, Loves them.  

The things we have done, not for love, but because of love.  The feeling God has placed in my heart, is overwhelming, and causes me to ramble.  Causes me to look in the mirror, and smile.  When I wake up in the morning, I want to rejoice.  I am still here.  Heck. I am more here than ever before.  A beautiful world, a beautiful life, and a beautiful God!

Jesus, thank You for the blood You shed for us.  Thank You for putting love into my life.  Thank You for the sweet sweet sound of amazing grace.  Lord, help us all to see Your light, truth and way.  With out You Lord, I am just a lost, blind man.  With you, I am found, and can see clear as day.  Help us all die each day to be renewed in You, Your grace, and Your Love.  Lord, I love You and I pray that You make Your Kingdom on Earth as it is in Heaven.  Jesus, I love You.  I need You.  

Amen.

Every Tuesday, I post one child I have selected from a list of Children who have been waiting over six months.  A group of bloggers and I have teamed up to make sure every day of the work week is covered by someone.  So please check them out.

• Toby Keathley – Monday
• Andy McMahon | Crucial Encounter (Me) – Tuesday
• caffeinatedfaith – Wednesday
• shawnw.org – Thursday
• Andrea | Shalom  Existence – Fri

For three weeks, the children we have chosen have been sponsored.  And yesterday at Toby’s blog, something really amazing happened.  Go check it out.  Maybe you need one of these kids just like they need you.  Don’t say, “Next week” or “Next Month”  If it’s in your heart, it’s in your heart.

This week I chose Latifa.  Latifa lives in an HIV/AIDS infected area.  She NEEDS your sponsorship for survival. You can still sponsor a child any day or night!  Please find it in your heart.  Or any day or time go here to sponsor a child.

Name: Latifa Kessy Isidory
Birthday: January 26, 2004    Age: 4
Gender: Female
Region: Africa
Country: Tanzania
Program: ELCT Mlandizi Student Center

Personal and Family Information:
Latifa lives with her father and her mother. She is responsible for caring for children, helping in the kitchen and running errands. Her father is sometimes employed as a laborer and her mother is sometimes employed as a seller in the market. There are 2 children in the family.

As part of Compassion’s ministry, Latifa participates in church activities and Bible class. She is also in kindergarten where her performance is average. Playing with dolls, playing ball games and hide-and-seek are her favorite activities.

To Sponsor Latifa, Please click here or the picture above. Your love and support will help Latifa to receive the assistance she needs to develop her potential. Please pray for her, and the hearts of the readers.

Every Tuesday, I post one child I have selected from a list of Children who have been waiting over six months.  A group of bloggers and I have teamed up to make sure every day of the work week is covered by someone.  So please check them out.

• Toby Keathley – Monday
• Andy McMahon | Crucial Encounter (Me) – Tuesday
• caffeinatedfaith – Wednesday
• shawnw.org – Thursday
• Andrea | Shalom  Existence – Friday

Today I chose Ayubu.  Ayubu has been waiting longer than six months and lives in an AIDS infected area.  That puts him at a high risk for HIV/AIDS.  Your 35 bucks a month could REALLY REALLY save this kids life!  If Ayubu does in fact have HIV/AIDS, your money will help! But most importantly, your letters could be what he is looking forward to.  Your letters could give him motivation to move forward.  Motivation to live.  This is an awful awful truth in our world.  Can you help?  To Sponsor Ayubu, please click here or any of the images in this post! Ayubu has been sponsored thanks to someone out there.  You guys are amazing!  Thanks SO SO MUCH!

Name:      Ayubu Abel Yusto
Birthday:   July 21, 2003    Age: 5
Gender:     Male
Region:     Africa
Country:   Tanzania
Program:  TAG Kitete Student Center

Personal and Family Information:
Ayubu lives with his father and his mother. His father is sometimes employed as a farmer and his mother is sometimes employed as a farmer. Ayubu works at home carrying water, gathering firewood and buying or selling in the market.

For fun, Ayubu enjoys soccer, playing with cars and walking. He attends church activities and Bible class regularly and is in kindergarten where his performance is average.

Because of your sponsorship, Ayubu will have new opportunities to learn and grow physically, mentally, and spiritually. If you find it in your heart today, please sponsor this child.  He needs you more than ever.  If you find it in your heart any other day, check out the links above, OR just go to www.compassion.com and find a child that needs you.  It’s really simple.  Thank you guys for supporting this cause!

It has been a crazy week.  A really crazy week.  But now that it is almost said and done, I can honestly say, God is amazing!  I don’t know what is going on in my heart exactly but I do know that God is moving me.  I feel so alive lately!  The works in my life are great.  I can see myself growing, and I can tell I am being equipped for something huge.  Something Earth changing.  I feel it.

The hurt we have all gone through this week is real, but through it all, God shined in and said, “Here I am.  Believe in me.  Here’s that sign you’ve been looking for!”  Amazing. 

Nothing deep today.  I don’t need to think or question anything.  It’s clear as day.  God is rockin’ and rollin’ my life.  Whew.  The feeling is great. 

To top it off, I believe that all of the compassion children that we have posted have been sponsored.  Thank you all!  That’s just great.  I will post something more in depth Monday.  (I try to take Sunday’s off.  You know…) So, check back Monday to see what is going on in my life.

God I love you, I beg you to keep pouring down your blessings on me and my family.  God, touch anyone reading this who needs you, whether they know it or not.  God, You are The Almighty, and I praise You!  I want to work for You, I want my life to be Christ-Centric.  Help me with my struggles, help me with my future, help me with my reactions.  God, help us all!  Jesus, we love You. 

Amen!