The Christmas season is upon us even though Thanksgiving hasn't even happened yet. For the past 6 years we have been sponsoring a little boy in Honduras named Eulalio. He's one year older than Alex which means he is 10 years old. Each month we send money to help him with expenses such as attending a Compassion school and buying things his family needs. We write letters to him on a regular basis and he writes letters back to us. Because he speaks Spanish our letters are translated into Spanish and his letters are translated into English. We pray daily for Eulalio. At Christmas we send extra money so that the local Compassion program can buy him Christmas presents.
The organization we work through is Compassion International. They are headquartered in Colorado Springs, CO. We visited Colorado Springs this fall which allowed for Alex and me to have personal tour of the complex. Our tour guide was a former Michigan resident. We learned about the histor of Compassion and about many of the child who have been helped and are now productive adults. We saw the mailroom where 1000s of thousands of letters processed. We learned that in Colorado Springs, Family on the Family has the largest mail operation, the USPO comes in second and Compassion International is a close third.
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