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What a great Compassion Sunday. I hope everyone learned a lot about Compassion International. And I know we all learned a lot about some of the other Compassion Ministries of the Orchard Church (Food Pantry, Outflows, etc.)

We still have some children that need to find sponsors. So please let me know if you are interested. Their child information packets are still at the building. Be sure to check them out next week.

One Million Children

This month, Compassion International celebrated the sponsorship of their 1 millionth child!!!! To find out more about this child and his sponsor, check out Compassion's blog.

And don't forget about Compassion Sunday tomorrow at 10:30 at the Orchard Church.

Compassion Sunday

May 31st is Compassion Sunday at the Orchard. Hope to see you there at 10:30am!

Free Stuff

Everyone loves free stuff. But free stuff that could help save lives...even better. Check out this link for free Compassion promotional stuff and do your part to help wipe out poverty.

How much do you know about HIV & AIDS?

One of the many things that Compassion International focuses on is education. Not only the education of the children in the program, but also the education of sponsors and potential sponsors. So how much do you know about HIV and AIDS? Take Compassion's HIV/AIDS Quiz and find out. I scored an 80. How about you?

July 2008 Prayer Calendar

New month...new prayer calendar. Here it is for all you pray-ers out there...

WEEK 1
Tuesday 1
We praise God for the successful HIV/AIDS awareness program held for the parents of children in the Khirpai Child Development Center in eastern India.

Wednesday 2
Pray for 11-year-old Ruth Carmen Rojas Morales and her family in Peru. Their home was destroyed by a fire.

Thursday 3
Please pray for Geeta, who works as a cook at the Anurag Child Development Center in India. She has bone cancer and needs healing.

Friday 4
Pray for the government in Haiti to enact effective and swift measures to address the famine and economic crisis gripping the nation.

Saturday 5
Pray for protection for the children and staff of Compassion partner CDI Vida-Centro de Desenvolvimento Integral Vida in Recife, Brazil. Armed drug suppliers are fighting for territory, sometimes directly in front of the child development center.

WEEK 2
Sunday 6
We thank God for the new staff at the Philippines Country Office: IT Specialist Rafel Mangulabnan and Partnership Facilitators Jesse Calvano, Felipe De Leon Jr. and Ryan Caspe.

Monday 7
Pray for a speedy recovery for 3-month-old Sivabala, at the Rhema Child Survival Program in Vellanguli, India, who had kidney surgery.

Tuesday 8
Pray for God's strength and comfort for the family of Meita Londah, a tutor at the Tunas Kasih Student Center in Indonesia who died of uterine cancer.

Wednesday 9
Please pray God's blessing on the fund Compassion is launching to aid child development center families who are hardest hit by famine and the global food crisis.

Thursday 10
Praise God that LDP students Richmond Wandera from Uganda, Michelle Tolentino from the Philippines, and Antonio Morales of the Dominican Republic were accepted to attend Moody Bible Institute!

Friday 11
Pray for one of the children in a child development center near Sao Paulo, Brazil, who was injured in an assault. Pray for physical and emotional healing.

Saturday 12
Please pray for the spiritual life of all the Asia Regional staff, that they will all have a close relationship with God and stand firm in Him.

WEEK 3
Sunday 13
Pray for the families and friends of Ugandan boy Sam Odudu, 7, who died from malaria.

Monday 14
We praise God for Center Manager Manik Mondol, in Bangladesh, who is feeling much better after a heart ailment.

Tuesday 15
Pray for the mother of Sharon Brillyd Paucar Bolo, 10, whose mother was shot in the leg during a shootout between warring Peruvian gangs.

Wednesday 16
Pray for the Center Manager at the Verchi Child Sponsorship Program in Bangladesh, Nil Armstrong, who was in a motorcycle accident.

Thursday 17
Pray for world leaders to take action against guerrilla groups who use children to fight.

Friday 18
Continue to pray for children in Tanzania who have lost their parents to AIDS.

Saturday 19
Pray for healing and comfort for a sponsored 11-year-old Peruvian boy recently diagnosed with HIV. Pray for strength for his family to help them cope.

WEEK 4
Sunday 20
Please pray for strength and peace for 9-year-old Nicaraguan Luz Maria Valle, who has terminal brain cancer.

Monday 21
Pray for God's strength and protection for Irene Heidy, a field-based facilitator in Indonesia, while she is on her three-month pregnancy leave.

Tuesday 22
Pray for Pastor Ha in Korea to recover quickly from cancer surgery so doctors can proceed with a much-needed kidney transplant.

Wednesday 23
We praise God for two new staff members who joined the Tanzania Country Office: David Mwakipesile and Shiphrah Mwagisa.

Thursday 24
Please pray for Auntara Pal, 5, and her family in Bangladesh. Her father committed suicide over extreme debt.

Friday 25
Pray for a rapid, smooth and problem-free completion of the new office being built for the Compassion staff in Burkina Faso.

Saturday 26
Pray for the family and friends of 6-year-old Sachin Das, who drowned while bathing in a pond in eastern India.

WEEK 5
Sunday 27

Pray for preparations being made for opening eight Child Survival Program centers in Indonesia during the next fiscal year.

Monday 28

Pray for God's provision for the children and families of Bonuan First Baptist Student Center, Malued Student Center, Sta. Barbara Student Center and the GFBC Student Center in the Philippines whose homes were damaged during Typhoon Halong.

Tuesday 29

Pray for Alima Gonza, 14, of Uganda, who is in a hospital intensive care unit after several epileptic seizures and contracting pneumonia.

Wednesday 30

Please pray for healing for Teddy Nakafero, 11, in Uganda, who lost her right leg to bone cancer and is recovering from surgery.

Thursday 31

We praise God that the training camp for program mentors in Bandung, Indonesia, went so well and that lives were affected for Christ!

One More

We have one more child from our child packets who needs to find a sponsor. Here is her information. As always, if you are interested in sponsoring her, please contact me.

Cindy Faiana Urbano Neira
5 years old
Columbia


Cindy lives with her father and mother. There are 3 children in the family. She enjoys playing house, playing with balls, and playing group games.

The average household income in Cindy's community is $89 per month.

Another Child

There is another child not on the list below that needs to find a sponsor as well. He was one of the 3 children whose child packet was taken on Compassion Sunday. But the person who took his packet was not able to sponsor him. Please let me know if you are interested in sponsoring him.

Simon Bag
5 years old
India

Simon lives with his father and mother. His favorite activities include walking, listening to music, and hide-and-seek.

The average household income in Simon's community is $27 per month.

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Compassion Sunday Recap

First let me say thanks so some people. Thank you to the leaders of the Orchard Church for allowing me to share this ministry w/ everyone. Thank you to my husband who does all the talking for me. And thank you to all of you who listened and a special thanks to those of you who took child packets home to pray over them and consider sponsoring them. I really appreciate each and every one of you and your part in this extraordinary ministry.

For those of you who were not able to attend this morning, let me give you a lil recap. This year, instead of allowing people to take child packets home to sponsor them, we decided that we wanted you not to make a commitment today...but to take a child packet home for the week, pray over it, and make a decision one way or another as to whether or not you want to sponsor that child. This year we had 8 child packets. Three of them are with people of our church being prayed over as I write. Five of them are still looking for potential sponsors. I am going to list them each here for you with a lil background information. If you are interested in possibly sponsoring one of these children, please email me at ashleyjohnson654@gmail.com. Regardless of whether you choose to sponsor or not, please pray for these children and the thousands of others waiting for sponsors.

Meenatchi Priyanga Muthu
7 years old
India

Meenatchi lives w/ her father and mother. There are 3 children in the family. She enjoys singing, playing house, and playing with dolls.

The average household income in Meenatchi's community is $22 a month.









Rosa Linda Martinez Matias
6 years old
Mexico

Rosa lives with her father and mother. There are 5 children in her family. She enjoys playing house and playing with dolls.

The average household income in Rosa's community is $106 per month.










Esiayas Alemayehu
5 years old
Ethiopia

Esiayas lives in an AIDS affected area.

Esiayas lives with his father and mother. His favorite thing to do is play soccer.

The average household income in Esiayas's community is $35 a month.








Edual Jose Torres Barralaga
8 years old
Hondoras

Edual lives with his father and mother. There are 2 children in his family. He enjoys playing w/ cars, playing ball games, and running.

The average household income in Edual's community is $136 a month.









Julio Gleyson Pereira Duarte
6 years old
Brazil

Gleyson lives with his father and mother. He enjoys playing soccer, playing with cars, and playing with marbles.

The average household income in Gleyson's community it $54 a month.










Again, thanks to all of you who made today so wonderful! Please keep the children above in your prayers and let me know if you are interested in sponsoring one of them. And please...