Compassion Child
The Children’s Sunday School classes are sponsoring a child through Compassion International with their weekly offerings. The child’s name is Carlos Daniel Tine Ayala. He lives in Lataounga in Ecuador. He was born on April 28, 2000. Through sponsorship, Carlos is able to attend school and to be a part of the weekly activities at the Los Corderitos Student Center. This center is established through the combined efforts of a local church in Ecuador and Compassion International. At the center, Carlos is provided any tutoring he may need, given a safe place to play and socialize, provided with health care, taught good health practices, and most important of all, he receives the gospel of Jesus through study and worship. The family of a child sponsored through Compassion will also receive instruction in health care and may receive food supplements if necessary. Each child has only one sponsor and Compassion encourages a strong relationship between the child and sponsor. There are two very important parts to child sponsorship through Compassion:
1. Sponsors are encouraged to write to the sponsored child as often as they can – at least 4 times a year. The sponsored children write to their sponsor and send a picture each year. Compassion considers this connection to be vital to the child. Through letter writing, Carlos will be encouraged in his school work and in his
growing faith in God, and will learn that he has friends who truly care about him. Check out Carlos’s picture and letters on a bulletin board in fellowship hall.
2. Sponsors are encouraged to regularly pray for the child. Carlos will be praying for the Sunday school classes every week at the center.
Through letter writing and prayer, the child and the sponsor grow in love for one another. Sponsoring Carlos is one way our Sunday school children are learning to follow Jesus’ command to “love our neighbor as ourselves.”
