How Do You Choose a Child to Sponsor? Kadie's Testimony
I had recently been reading a book and doing a Bible study that really got me thinking outside the box. I kept feeling a tug at my heartstrings for children in other countries who truly have nothing compared to the luxuries we enjoy. I have a former co-worker who I knew sponsored a child, so I asked her which organization she went through. When I looked up Children of the Nations, I was so happy to see that it was a local group and it just felt right! Immediately I started looking at all the children. What a heartbreak! How do you pick one child out of all those precious faces? If you are like me, you don't. You change the screen and cry and pray!
Kadie's girls: Allison, age 10, and Chimwemwe, age 4.
A few minutes later my daughter retrieved me from another room to let me know she had chosen a child. I looked on the computer and saw the beautiful face of a four-year-old girl in Malawi staring back at me. It was the same face I had to turn away from, crying, the day before. My daughter exclaimed that this girl was to be her little sister and I needed to hurry up so she could start writing letters.
Chimwemwe in Malawi.
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by Kadie Peters, COTN Sponsor