Isn’t this what we do?

Sometimes I wish our copy editor worked for us personally but since she does not I’m on my own here. My hope is that I am clear and you read the need between these lines.
On November 11 we will leave for my 4th trip with Compassion.  We are heading to Haiti to shoot another video on Compassions work. About 4 years ago I got the travel bug. I think it was the Amazing Race or something.  Anyway I got into a habit of traveling to different parts of the world each year sometimes with my company sometimes by myself.  The trips that seem to affect me the most were the trips where I’ve been given the opportunity to work with Compassion.  I was introduced to Compassion through my Company.  They had decided to partner with compassion to raise sponsorship in the student world which gave me the chance to find out what its all about.  I had never heard of Compassion before that and couldn’t really tell you about a single child sponsorship program other than having the phrase in my head “Wont you help Manuel?”  I’m getting a little sidetracked or is it sidetrack.  Well I’m a creative director so it meant that it was my job along with my team to develop some type of promotion for Compassion. Oh a little plug the video you see to the right is my company special.  Yeah so the first project in which I left the country for was Guatemala. We were taking a girl named Sarah Drake down there to meet a child she was about to sponsor.  I’ll try and post that video later.
You ever have those moments in your life when you realize that your life has to be more than a day to day routine until you die.  Here is what I see at every Compassion project that I visit. A fight against poverty, Jesus’ name being proclaimed, and an organization that does what they say they are going to do. .  I saw kids that were connected to others around the world. I saw nationals who were in charge. Which for some may not be a big deal but to me it’s a very big deal.  Too many times we in the west become super heroes wielding our super powers and ideals on developing nations without regard to tradition or history. So lets change that.
Trust me.  You can change the life of one single person.  I was watching poverty being fought from a distance and while we haven’t beaten it yet Compassion is beating the crap out of it in Guatemala and it’s giving it a couple bloody noses in Peru.  Because of what I have seen in those countries I decided this past year to become a Child Advocate.  It’s a big deal to me.  One because it causes conviction in me to do something and two it was time for me to stand for something.  I can’t just travel and not do anything about the places I visit.  Oh so if you are looking for a child to sponsor look me up and I can connect you with one.  I can explain to you why poverty and its externalities affect us in the U.S. but I’ll put it this way. Mark 16:15 says Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. This is doing that. Matt 28:19 says to make disciples of all nations. Folks this is what we are suppose to do. Lose your life.
Oh and his name is Elinuru Lazaro Laizer and he was born Sept 20, 1999 and he lives in Tanzania.