Sentences with phrase «child sponsorship»

When I tell people about the trip, they often have questions about purpose and logistics of child sponsorship that I don't know how to answer.

One way to stop human trafficking is through child sponsorship.

I'm not here to try and sell you on child sponsorship if you're not already sold.

If we are creating it then we can also choose to solve it, but as child sponsorship shows, we are more comfortable solving something that is a little bit removed from us.

I worried that child sponsorship created dependency and that families were forced to attend church in order to receive assistance for their little ones.

We are loyal to our mission of breaking the cycle of poverty one child at a time, through resourceful and education - based child sponsorship.

Columnist Jeremy Willet writes about the importance of child sponsorship programs in Africa and Haiti.

Continue partnering with World Vision to raise awareness and funds for child sponsorship, women's education, and women's job training.

The first - ever study into international child sponsorship has found that it does transform lives and reduce poverty.

As you know, I'll be visiting Bolivia at the end of the month to get a first - hand look at how child sponsorships are changing lives there.

«A post about child sponsorship isn't going to be followed by hundreds of comments and thousands of shares because no one's going to argue against it.

There she worked to establish schools for local children, built clean water wells, helped create «grazing projects as one solution to long - term conflicts between Nigerian farmers and Fulani herdsmen» and assisted with a local child sponsorship program.

Gracious, giving money away is useless, what difference does sending $ 35 a month in child sponsorship gigs really make for the big picture anyway, sure maybe one kid, but what's one kid in a world?

But armed with questions you submitted via the blog and a notebook in which I scribbled notes like a reporter, I came to see just how powerful and life - changing child sponsorship can be.

When I traveled to Bolivia with World Vision last year to see what child sponsorship looks like on the ground, I admit I was skeptical.

Child sponsorship charities work to champion children's rights and to help prevent human trafficking through education.

When you support child sponsorship in Africa, you are on the front lines of a movement to help people provide for themselves and their families.

The Kingdom of God is not about numbers and success stories, about outposts and flag plantings, about projects and missions, about slide shows in church with smiling brown babies, about compelling blog posts and child sponsorship manifestos.

I'm going to Bolivia with World Vision and a team of bloggers whose directive it is to be your eyes and ear on the ground as we get an inside look at World Vision's work in a developing country, specifically regarding child sponsorship.

In other countries where there may be no legal Christian church and where distributing Christian materials would put our staff or sponsored children in danger, child sponsorship provides an opportunity to live out our Christian faith by caring for those in need regardless of their situation.

Question from Elizabeth: How does child sponsorship help the community at large and not just the individual children?

Trevin Wax at The Gospel Coalition wrote a blog post placing all the blame for pulled child sponsorships on gay and lesbian people and their supporters, saying he «grieves for the children» who will lose access to basic necessities over the issue, before including single parents and divorcees among those who are destroying the lives of children around the world.

I'm a longtime World Vision supporter and I've seen firsthand the effectiveness of its work, particularly child sponsorships.

As passionate as I was about social justice and alleviating poverty, child sponsorship struck me as an old - fashioned model for giving in which a few select children essentially walked through a breadline to receive meals, schools supplies, and medical attention from far - away white «saviors» whose first - world guilt was eased by letters ensuring that their contributions made a difference.

I confess that until recently, the first thing that came to my mind when someone mentioned child sponsorship was Sally Struthers kneeling next to an emaciated African child, mascara running down her face, telling the TV that «if you can just save one life, won't it be worth it?»

And I also wonder whether child sponsorship is not more of a deluxe donation stimulator than an efficient poverty reducer, though I could be proven wrong about that.

Many Christian leaders, speakers and music artists pray for and sponsor a child through Compassion's Christian child sponsorship program.

Help a child by considering child sponsorship through Compassion.

The most radical change I've experienced during this trip to Bolivia is that my view of child sponsorship has been turned on its head.

The first - ever study into international child sponsorship has found that it does transform lives and reduce poverty.Independent researchers conducted an...

While I can't speak on behalf of all NGOs who participate in such programs, I can now state with confidence that World Vision's child sponsorship program consistently exhibits the following:

I hope you will take advantage of her availability to ask whatever questions you have about child sponsorship and how humanitarian organizations like World Vision operate.

The charity sends staff and supporters to speak to congregations, and asks donors to sign up for child sponsorships that require a monthly donation.

As part of World Vision's Boliva Blogger team, I'll be headed to South America for a week (July 31 - August 7) to be your eyes and ears on the ground as we get an inside look at how child sponsorship can change lives.

In a lot of ways, child sponsorship is like the Hunu dam.

(If, like me, you're a skeptic by nature, check out «Confessions of a Child Sponsorship Skeptic.»)

Most Frustrating: When, after 10,000 child sponsorships were dropped in protest, World Vision reversed its decision supporting LGBT employees.

Note: I confess I was something of a child sponsorship skeptic before I had the chance to see what World Vision was doing on the ground in Bolivia.

As a result, the Bolivia Bloggers trip generated over 120 child sponsorships, more than 20 of which came from you.

She's traveled to Ethiopia, Kenya, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Thailand, and the United States covering World Vision's work in disaster response, community development, and child sponsorship.

Top stories of 2013: Kirsten Powers's conversion, Andy Stanley on President Obama, child sponsorships, the war over Christian beards, and more.

Due to a regulatory crackdown on foreign NGOs, Compassion International was forced to end its child sponsorship operations in India in March, pulling $ 45 million in funding from its Indian church partners.

I loved the tough questions you posed to Carla about humanitarian work, child sponsorship, and World Vision.

Carla's been to Ethiopia, Kenya, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Thailand, and the United States covering World Vision's work in disaster response, community development, and child sponsorship.

Kirsten Powers's conversion, Andy Stanley on President Obama, child sponsorships, the war over Christian beards, and more.

The first - ever study into international child sponsorship has found that it does transform lives and... More

Martin went on to found Give Hope International, a charity that has built primary schools in Zambia and Ethiopia, as well as setting up a child sponsorship programme.

[Note: Tonight at 10 p.m. EST join the entire Boliva team for a LIVE STREAM in which you can ask all your pressing questions about Bolivia, child sponsorship, and what it's like to spend hours in a van with eight very opinionated bloggers]-RSB-

So, are you a child sponsorship skeptic?

We reached our child sponsorship goals for the trip!