In the beginning, these letters were handwritten, translated, and sent to each church and school. This communication was crucial for the spiritual and emotional strengthening of children.
You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone. 3 You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!
Psalms 133:3
With the Scholarship Plan we began supporting youth who were about to begin their college education.
This program was focused on those who stood out in our other programs and, with higher education, would be able to help the Christian environment in their surrounding churches and communities.Today many of those who attended the Scholarship Plan continue to contribute to their communities with their faith and knowledge.
But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop.
Luke 8:15
Child Development Centers, an evolution of Student Centers
allowed us to amplify our mission’s impact on children and youth and their spirituality, health, and education. In order to understand comprehensive childhood development, we did an intervention of high risk children in Cali and Buenaventura, offering psychological assistance. There were also initiatives to identify learning difficulties.
And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor
with God and man.
Luke 2:52
At Compassion’s National Olympiads
350 children partook in sports competitions like track, futsal, basketball, and swimming. These Olympiad competitions were a space for fraternity, fair play, and healthy competition. The first National Talent Event took place soon after featuring painting, poetry and music.When showing off our talents with our peers we must act with Christian values like respect, solidarity, honesty, and kindness.
For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, 5 so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.
Romans 12:4-5
“God doesn’t call on the prepared, He prepares the called ones” was the slogan for the Leadership Development Program (LDP).
This program was created in order to identify and give a chance to exceptional young Christians. The purpose was to strengthen the leadership skills of those who were chosen so they could have a positive influence in their communities.
(...)They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor. They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations.
Isaiah 61:3-4
The program focused on expecting mothers and their babies.
Mothers learned about upbringing and stimuli of the infants and small children through educational activities, songs, and other activities to strengthen family bonds. The program promoted women’s literacy, family planning and birth control, breastfeeding, growth and development oversight, oral rehydration practices, vaccination, and food security.
Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
Psalms 139:16
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