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Share Your World, Sponsorship Saturday

May 2, 2015 By Michelle

Share Your World is a fantastic idea from the Compassion Letter Writing pinterest board, for writing to our sponsored children. With that in mind I wrote online letters to all our kiddos about one of my favorite nearby places, Rock Ledge Ranch. It was a little challenging to choose what to include in the letter, as it is a historical site and I didn’t want to make the translation difficult!

April, 2015

Dear Friend,

Hello my friend! I hope this letter finds you and your family healthy and doing well. I am praying for you, your mother and your baby brother.

Our family lives in Colorado, United States. We have many interesting things about the city where we live, but I want to tell you about a special one today. We like to visit a place called Rock Ledge Ranch. It is a historical site, with houses from 3 different time periods of Colorado history. My children often volunteer there during their summer break from school.

The Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site is a living history farm and museum that depicts life in the Pikes Peak region in four time periods: American Indian area in 1775; 1860’s Galloway Homestead; 1880’s Chambers Home and Ranch; 1907 Edwardian Country Estate.

At the American Indian area there is a teepee and a wikiup. Native American people work in that area and teach about their history.

The Rock Ledge House was built-in 1874 by the Chamber’s family. This family started the first school in our area, and the school was in their house at first.

My favorite area of the ranch is the Galloway Homestead, where a person can learn about homesteading in the 1860’s. There is often a fire in the adobe oven and sometimes the staff and volunteers cook food.

last summer my youngest daughter repaired this chair with all new weaving, while volunteering at the ranch

People who work at the ranch wear costumes that are like the clothing that people wore during the historical time periods. They get to work with old tools and do daily work like it was done in the past. It is a wonderful way to learn!

Laundry, the old fashioned way

Learning about history is very interesting to me and I appreciate having Rock Ledge Ranch nearby. There is a large garden, a pond thriving with animals and a barn with chickens, sheep, a cow and several horses. I am attaching some pictures of the ranch. I hope you enjoy learning about one of my favorite places.

Please write again soon. I look forward to hearing about your favorite place and about how you are doing.

With love,

Michelle

It is my plan to continue to write about places in our area and I hope that our sponsored children will be inspired to share more about where they live! Wanna join the letter writing community of Compassion Sponsors? Check out this blog post for more information. And click this link if you are interested in learning more about Child Sponsorship through Compassion International.

Correspondence in June

June 28, 2014 By Michelle

Last month I came across so many ideas for our June correspondence to the children we sponsor through Compassion International.

First these Bible stories! I discovered that they can be printed in many different languages so I decided to print in Spanish for our kids in Central and South America. Since this is the first of this type of material that I have sent, I started with creation .

For Karen I found the printable alphabet pages,

Karen Margarita, CO790, correspondent sponsorship

For Edward and Angelica I am sending introductory letters with stickers & photos.

All of the kids are getting bandaids, a gift we send at the beginning of summer each year. We buy several boxes of colorful and standard bandaids. Then we staple 5-6 on index cards, labeled with the important information. Someday I hope to find some kind of coloring page or printable to tie a Scripture to the bandaids.

During the month we recieved 3 “new sponsorship” packets for Karen, Edward & Angelica.

Envelope Carrying Sponsorship Information

New Sponsorship Packets

We also received a cheerful letter from Karen, it was actually addressed to her financial sponsor, which appears to be a corporation. I am tickled we get to partner with them and be Karen’s correspondent sponsors. Karen asked some fun questions and I look forward to getting a reply out to her soon!

Always on the lookout for new ideas to add to our sponsorship correspondence, so please comment and share!

New Members of Our International Family

June 10, 2014 By Michelle

This week I logged on to compassion.com to check on birthdays and found not 1 but 2 new members of our international family!

Angelica, Bolivia BO399

and

Edward Tanzania TZ223

we are looking forward to sharing hope and love with these precious kids and seeing them smile in future pictures!

To Lesbia’s Mother

May 11, 2013 By Michelle

Dear Lesbia’s Mom,

It has been my hope for two years to be able to get on a plane and travel to Guatemala, to meet you, to tell you that you are not in this parenting thing alone. I wanted to tell you that even though I am roughly 2500 miles away and we’ve never met, that I pray that God will hold you up.

And then the call came, your precious daughter, my sponsored child, left the Compassion program despite the encouragement of the staff. I had noticed over the last few letters how Lesbia’s tone had changed from young and cheerful to sad and bordering on hopeless.

Oh how I hope that you have not given up.

What is it like, trying to raise a daughter, alone without the support of a husband, in poverty, without enough?

I can only imagine the hopelessness that might try to settle in. The loneliness that produces fear. The simple reality of hunger and sickness that stamps out dreams.

Please don’t give up.

I will keep praying because I know One who spans distance, fills gaps and loves you. He loves you and your children with a forever love. I will pray that the seeds of truth which have been sown in your daughter will germinate and bring life to both of you.

And while I probably won’t be able to get on that plane to Guatemala I’ll quietly remember you and pray that God will uphold you, supply you with enough.

Please don’t give up

First Letters!

January 20, 2011 By Michelle

In the summer we received word that the boy we sponsored through Compassion International since 1996 was graduating out of the program. In September we sponsored two new kids! This past week when we prayed for those precious children, I also began asking the Father if we could receive a letter soon.

And SATURDAY’s mail held not one, but two letters! What excitement as we opened them over dinner, read the sweet words and looked at the wonderful drawings.

Dinner was finished quickly and the girls went right to work in writing replies. Well, Mae is writing a reply, Chica and Petal Rose broke out the markers, colored pencils and glitter glue and went to work creating some art love.

We are excited to be starting this sponsorship adventure again. We’ve seen 3 kids go through the program and grow up already. I know that this is a wonderful opportunity to share with our 3 girls!

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