Child Sponsorship

Today I met the 32 children who are sponsored to go to school through my church. Joel had some connection with a pastor of a small church in Scotland. So now the members of that church are sponsoring children in the community of my church. They all come to the church once a month and bring their school reports and write letters to their sponsors. It was a very impacting moment to watch them write letters to these people in Scotland. I have become so familiar with child sponsorship on the other side of things, but to see these kids and spend even a few minutes with them really affected me. It was so cool to see it working from one church to another! Half of me wanted to gather all the money and sponsors as fast as possible to send more kids to school, and the other half of me was a bit overwhelmed thinking about the magnitude of children who would love to have a sponsor. My mind raced as I tried to figure out how this could be most effective and how I could help this program to grow. My heart really was affected by these kids...so now I will continue to process and see how I can be helpful to this church that is reaching out to their community in such great ways!!