Compassion Sunday

    Woohoo! Today was Compassion Sunday at Stonecreek Church! I have been so excited for today! Here are a few reasons why…

• Because of the Dominican Trip with Compassion over spring break, myself and the other eight students that went were able to be onstage in our middle and high school environments. This gave us the opportunity to share our stories and how God worked through us.
• We were able to take part in getting 150 children sponsored! Giving hope to these precious children!
• I got to see the power in opening up and sharing my story.. So often I think “Oh I am not going to say anything, I will just sound stupid” or “If I share would it really make a difference?” 

    The answer is “YES!”, when we are open to letting God us He can do amazing things! And don’t for one minute doubt that!

    Okay so I have a video of the team answering questions… But it is such a big video that I will have to edit it down before I can post it… But be looking out for it soon!

Did you participate in Compassion Sunday? Did it change you in any way?

                                                                                              Kristen

One Life

One life…

One person…

One story…

What’s yours?…

What’s theirs?…

It only takes one, one person to change the life of a precious child or teen forever. Over spring break I worked with Compassion International in the Dominican Republic. I had the amazing chance and opportunity to meet so many amazing people. I got to meet the children in Compassion zone 313 Blanco Arriba. I was able to play games, make bracelets, talk, share my faith, and just love on these amazing people.

One day that we were at the project we go to meet all of the kids that had just entered the program and needed sponsors… These are the kids that need sponsors.

Compassion Sunday for my church is this upcoming Sunday, April 17th. So on this day myself and the rest of the team get to host the Compassion Sunday, also we are speaking about our trip and what God has done and is doing in us and the people in the Dominican Republic. It is going to be an amazing service.

I am challenging you to think this week about sponsoring a child… you will be giving them a chance, a hope.

  Would you be willing to be that one? The one to change a life…

I have seen first hand how your $34 a month can change the lives of a child and his or her family. Bringing food, clothes, education, and medical help are the physical things that you will be giving. But something even bigger is giving a hope, knowing that someone loves you and is caring for you even though they have never met you.

We were able to ask some of the children about their sponsors, it was amazing to see how they could practically quote their letters and were able to tell you everything that they knew about their sponsor off the top of their head. All of them had a very special place that they kept their letters that usually only they knew about.. or others kept them in a glass case on display.

If you are a sponsor to a child I am asking you this… How often do you write your child? Once a month? Once every three months? Once a year?

Compassion would suggest that you write once a month. Receiving a letter is something that the child so looks forward to… give them something to look forward to.

 

Would you be willing to sponsor a child? To change the life of a child, family, community? Help break the cycle of poverty one child at a time.

 

 

                                                                             Kristen

I am back! Lets start at the beginning…

 

I am back!! I have missed blogging!

    As most of you know I went on a mission trip to the Dominican Republic this spring break… so the next few posts may be about the trip   I am sure you wont mind, especially after you see the faces of all the children!

     There are so many things that I saw and experienced on this trip I don’t even know where to start!

Well I guess the beginning is always a good place… So we had a two flights one from ATL to MIA then from MIA to Santo Domingo. I got the window seat when we were flying from Miami! So this is what it looks like from the clouds! Every time that I fly I am amazed and in awe of how big our world is… It is not something that we thing about when we are in our daily routines, I know that I didn’t stop and think of the people that are all over the world and how big our world really is.

Flying puts it into perspective of how small we all really are.

This is the amazing scenery that we drove through to get to Blanco Arriba every day… Rolling mountains with the most beautiful blue sky that I think I have ever seen! With perfect white puffy clouds meeting the tops of mountains. The Dominican Republic is the most colorful and green country that I have seen so far. (I have been to three countries…haha) But really God amazes me at his creativity and artistic design!

 

At the moment I do not have my camera with pictures of the kids. I should be getting it back within the next few days, when I get it back you will be sure to see many pictures and stories of the amazing people that touched my heart. Until then here is the only picture I have of me with a child.

This is Natalie!

 

What did you do for spring break?

Did you waste your time doing nothing?

God calls us to be missionaries whether that is at your home, school, church, or another country.

What are you going to do to make a difference?

 

                                                                                                               Kristen