15 Sponsors today

[Pastor Gary]

To God be the Glory for 15 new Compassion Sponsored children out of our Sunday service at REUNION today.

...and more to come. We ran out of Child Sponsorship packets. a few very cool side stories:

• Even before our own Compassion Sunday, I got an invitation to speak and repeat the process at the Korean church using our Kaneohe building. I will doing a Compassion Sunday for Immanuel Christian Church on March 22. How cool is that?

• We expect that sponsorship number to climb, as there were more interested people than available packets, despite a HORRIBLE attendance day... a bunch of people traveling and out sick left us with only 81 in attendance today -- but God was faithful, and it was the right 81.

• A new believer, who has only been attending a short time and gave her heart to the Lord while I was in The Philippines, stopped to talk to me about a schedule for baptism, and she had a packet in her hands... she is a single mom working 3 jobs, yet she said "I am struggling, but I can afford to do this!"

• One of our volunteer staff guys manages the a Homeless Alliance office. He has been mentoring/discipling a formerly homeless guy named Joe, a recovering alcoholic. Joe has ben attending REUNION for almost a year and now runs video camera on SUndays. Joe is clean, sober, about to enroll in university in the fall to start his Masters Degree, and he and our staffer teamed up to sponsor a child. I thought that was awesome... a guy being released from poverty, reaching out to release a child from poverty!

[rjjunior]

PG, Where's your brand loyalty? One Child Fund

(Compassion International is the Micro$oft of children's aid.) j/k

[Pastor Gary]

PG, Where's your brand loyalty? One Child Fund

(Compassion International is the Micro$oft of children's aid.) j/k

I am loyal to children in need, regardless of how they receive help.
See my post to Martha.

PS:
I just got of the phone with your father.