How to Send a Hug Around the World
Step 1: Sponsor a child (or two!) through Compassion International.
Step 2: Write letters to start building a relationship, then excitedly wait for your letters from them!
Step 3: Get your kids involved! Let them write letters, draw pictures, pray. It makes the world a little bit smaller to know there are kids just like them in faraway places, in very different circumstances, but similar in so many ways—what they like to do, their need for God and love and a family, where they find joy and purpose.
That’s it! HUG SENT!!
Oh, there is one more optional step:
Step 4: Maybe, just maybe, someday take a visit to see your sponsored child to give them a hug in person. When our kids are a bit older, I would love to do this. We are blessed to have a friend at a local church going to visit the Compassion center in Ethiopia where our sponsored children are! Today we packaged up our gifts into ziploc bags (yes, I managed to fit all the items in that picture in a 1-gallon bag!), included our letters and photos and our hugs, and gave them to our friend so that she can hand-deliver them in just a few days. I can’t wait to hear about their trip and I’ll be posting more about it here.
Letter my 9-year-old wrote to her friend in Ethiopia:
