First Sunday (Oops...Monday) Advocate

June snuck up on me a little bit. I honestly didn't even notice it was June until last night...when it was already June 3rd. Seriously. I even paid my rent last night. Thank goodness I have a nice five day grace period from my landlord for those rent checks. :)

But since I forgot that months change every 30 days or so, my typical first Sunday post is a Monday post this month.

Today, I have 12 kids to share with you and each of these beautiful little ones are waiting for a sponsor. All of these kids attend projects that some of my current kids attend. I chose preschoolers this time around because I am missing my preschoolers! I wish it was September already so that I can get back into the classroom. But until then, I'll share these cuties and see if I can help find them a sponsor.

3 Year Old Sophia from BR-490 loves playing with dolls

This "Little Lady" Mariana from CO-607 loves music!

3 Year old Maria Teresa from DR-314 looks so cute in her lavender shirt!

5 Year old Jordan from ES-985 loves learning about God and the Bible

5 Year Old Firaol from ET-205 is being raised by his single mother

Tiny Dominic from GH-227 has two working parents and two siblings

5 Year Old Lewis from KE-237 is being raised by his single grandmother

4 Year Old Diana from NI-293 loves to draw

3 Year Old Thiago from PE-538 loves to play ball games

3 Year Old Mawunyo from TG-232 is being raised by her grandmother and her uncle

4 Year Old Janthana from TH-337 lives with her parents and 3 siblings

4 Year Old Aaron from UG-906 is rocking those striped socks!

First Sunday Advocate: May 2018

I have a new list of cute boys to share with you today. All of these boys are looking for a sponsor, to help support them and encourage them through letters. If you have space in your family to sponsor a child, maybe you'll consider one of these boys.

Under each photo is a link to each boy's profile page, where you can learn more information about them, their family, their education, and their community. You can also sponsor each boy on his profile page.

5 Year Old Carlos from Colombia. How great is his smile?!

Doesn't 4 year old David from Rwanda look so tall?

How sweet does 5 year old Julian look? 

Just look at 4 year old Kelly from Ghana. His poor big tummy.

5 year old Wood from Haiti is such a snazzy dresser!

13 year old Jhivens is such a handsome young man.

Gosh, I just think 6 year old Ashenafi from Ethiopia is so cute!

5 year old Waner from Dominican Republic likes to sing! 

5 year old Renaud from Burkina Faso is rocking his Jordan t-shirt!

5 year old Jordan from El Salvador has such a sweet demeanor.

6 year old Brighton from Tanzania looks like he's ready for a game of soccer!

First Sunday Advocate: Glasses Edition

After having a nice discussion with some people on Facebook about children living in poverty having eye problems, and how Compassion is helping those children by making sure they have glasses, I decided to do an entire advocate post about children wearing glasses. 

Just as an aside, this post took a ridiculous amount of time to prepare as I searched through literally over 100 pages to find kids with glasses. 

Through my research, I also learned that children in Central/South America are a ton more likely to be wearing glasses than those children in Asia or Africa. I'm not sure why that is the case, but I don't have any kids from Asia or Africa to share with you in this post. Maybe glasses are harder to access in those areas. Or maybe there just weren't any on the website at the time I checked. Either way, here are the ten glasses wearing kiddos that I am hoping find a sponsor this month.

The information listed under each photo is a link to that child's page, where you can learn more about them and where they live. You can choose to sponsor them from that page. 

8 year old Karolina from El Salvador looks so cute in her pink glasses!

Smiley 7 year old Hillany from the Dominican Republic looks so sweet!

12 year old Elizabeth from Mexico looks so fashionable in her mixed patterns. 

11 year old Ivan, from Mexico, probably had to take his glasses off for his photo. Glasses glare is terrible, people!

Doesn't 7 year old Camilo from Nicaragua look so cute in the color yellow?

10 year old Mauricio, from Nicaragua, looks so tall, doesn't he?

7 year old Alens, from Haiti, is so little and cute!

It looks like 11 year old Gabriel, from Brazil, may have those glasses that change to sunglasses in the sun. Very cool.

I think 16 year old Brigitte, from Colombia, looks very smart in her school uniform and black rimmed glasses. 

8 year old Owen, from Ecuador, looks like he could work in a library with his glasses on a chain. I love that!

First Sunday Advocate: February 2018

It's time to share another list of beautiful children who are currently waiting for a sponsor. Each of these children attends a project that one of my children attend. Each month, I tend to pick kids based on a theme of some sort. This month, I decided to choose children that had names of people I know in real life. I was surprised by how many I found, to be honest. 

If you want to learn more about any of these children, or would like to sponsor them, the information under each child is a link to that child's page. You can read more about their interests, their family, their schooling, and even click the happy yellow button to sponsor them! 

4 Year Old Ebenezer from BF-129

10 Year Old Georgina from BO-805

11 Year Old Emanuel from BR-322

7 Year Old Keyla from EC-271

7 Year Old Meron from ET-163

10 Year Old Chris from IO-595

5 Year Old Samuel from KE-235

4 Year Old Yeison from NI-293

5 Year Old Ian from UG-906

Sponsor a Christmas Child: 2018

Welcome to what is probably my favorite post to do every year!

I looked up Compassion kids that have Christmas themed names. I think it would be so fun to sponsor a child with a Christmas name some year around Christmas, myself. But, so far, I have not been in a place to sponsor around Christmas time. So instead, I share these kids with you.

If you have been considering sponsoring a child for Christmas, maybe you will consider one of these kids:

11 Year Old Gabriel from Peru (Attends the same project as my girl Sunrei)

5 Year Old Christian from Tanzania

4 Year Old Gift from Uganda

6 Year Old Joseph from Togo

4 Year Old Angel from Indonesia

5 Year Old Noel from Ecuador

17 Year Old Nicholas from Kenya

7 Year Old Bethelhem from Ethiopia 

6 Year Old Joy from Ghana

16 Year Old Israel from Brazil

14 Year Old Mary from Philippines (She attends the same project as my boy Jhonrex)

6 Year Old Gloria from Burkina Faso

6 Year Old Carol from Bolivia

And the grand finale! 

6 Year Old Jesus de Nazareth from Honduras