You know the old saying "better late than never"?  I was reading through some of my favorite blogs and started chasing rabbits, as I sometimes do.  Do you ever do that?  Read a blog, see an interesting name on the blogroll and click it, and before you know it you've gone 6 degrees of separation from the original.  Well that happened today- I was at my favorite non-religious Christian blog happily reading comments to a post he made yesterday.  I clicked someone's username and ended up HERE.  Then at the bottom of the page I saw a link to THIS.  What all three of these had in common was a small ad on their blogs linking to Compassion International. 

You see, this month is Blog about Compassion month and earlier this month, from the 10th-18th, a group of Christian bloggers went to Uganda with Compassion and are blogging about it.  I clicked that little button on the last site I went to and fell in love with about a hundred little African kids!  Obviously we can't sponsor all of them, so I thought it would be cool to make this a family thing.  I called Katy up (age 8) and let her pick a child to sponsor.  She chose (after much deliberation!) a 4 year old girl from Tanzania named Mary John Mkini.  Mark came up later and chose Tumusiime Joshua from Uganda, who is about his age.  They are both excited, as am I, at the prospect of making a difference in these kids' lives.

Katy just came up as I was typing this post and asked, "How's Mary doing?"  I explained to her that we'll get an information package in the mail in a couple of weeks and she can find out all about her then.  She then asked why we couldn't sponsor more kids and I said, "Because each child costs $32/month to sponsor and right now we can't sponsor more." 

"What if you don't have any money?  Can you sponsor them with what you do have?"

"No, but we can pray for these kids that people will sponsor them and then they can have medicine and be able to go to school and things like that," was my reply.

She sighed and said, "I wish the whole world was like that, where they all could get what they need."

Me too sweetie, me too.

So thank you to Brant of Kamp Krusty, Anne of Flowerdust.net, and Nancy of Not all who wander are lost (all the links are in the first paragraph).  From your postings and sidebar ads, there are two more sponsored kids in Africa, and two American kids living in France who can have their own slice of ministry and demonstrating Jesus' love to those less fortunate than they are.

Better late than never, don't you think?