Here#8217;s a healthy dose of perspective courtesy of Jim Tressel, author of The Winners Manual: For the Game of Life..
If we could shrink the earth#8217;s population to village of precisely one hundred people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, the village would include . . .
60 Asians,
12 Europeans
15 from the Western [...]br/
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#8220;It’s extraordinary to me that the United States can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can’t find $25 billion dollars to save 25,000 children who die every day from preventable diseases.#8221; #8211;Bono.
I don#8217;t mean to make light of the current economic crisis in the United States, but there#8217;s a part of [...]br/
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Mark Hanlon, Sr. Vice President for Compassion U.S., is today#8217;s guest columnist at The Christian Post.
Read his article, #8220;The Children of India Bear the Brunt of Acts of Violence#8221;
Read these related posts:Redemption Needed (6)The Dignity of Work (10)Getting 10,000 Children Sponsored in 10 Days (8)Iowa, Flooding and the Global Food Crisis (16)Arpita#8217;s Miracle (13)br/
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This past weekend was pretty amazing. Getting a quick trip home, full of family and friends, was just what the doctor ordered. Although, work was on my mind … especially Friday.
Curtis Fletcher informed me before I left on Thursday that he would be attending the entire cabinet meeting as a representative for Rick [...]br/
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And he stood up to read. The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:
#8220;The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor.
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If Compassion did one thing differently, I think it should be . . .
Read these related posts:I Share Compassion . . . (6)I Gave a Gift . . . (30)One Million Dollars (25)My Whole Life Has Changed . . . (14)The Best Thing . . . (28)br/
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The first thing Heidi Partlow does each morning is check her e-mail. It#8217;s always packed. As Compassion#8217;s complementary interventions manager, she gets all kinds of e-mails each day.
E-mails about how to submit a proposal for a complementary interventions (CIV), e-mails from marketing departments about the particulars of a CIV, e-mails about a disaster that has [...]br/
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Story and photos by Provashish Dutta, Compassion East India Field Communications Specialst
Biplab has a very charming and loving personality. He is married with a son who is 5 years old. His wife is a teacher. Biplab has a very good sense of humor and knows how to be like a child when relating to children. [...]br/
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Today#8217;s post is written by Steve K., The Leopard at the Summit, member of the blog on child poverty hall of fame and latest addition to our SpotLINK focus on you, our readers.
The other day I received my first letter from my sponsored child #8212; six-year-old Richar, from Peru! I picked up the mail late [...]br/
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Story and photos by Yuri Fortin, Compassion Honduras Field Communications Specialist
Pablo is a 13-year-old boy who lives in the city of Danli, located at the east side of the capital city, Tegucigalpa. His life has been marked by a rare illness that has caused him the loss of his hair and eyebrows since he [...]br/
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