Capture Your 365…or not

Usually on Wednesdays, I share with you a week worth of photos that I have taken from the Capture Your 365 photo prompts. Well, the past couple of weeks have been crazily (not sure if  that is a real word or not, but it fits!) busy and I did not take any pictures with my Nikon! Tragic, I know! What was I doing you might ask?

homeschool conference

I was able to set up a Compassion table for two days at our local homeschool conference and we found sponsors for three kids! In addition to hanging out at the table for two days and talking with a lot of people, I presented a workshop on the this title, “How One Mom Transitioned from Career Mom to Homeschool Mom”. This was my second time speaking at this conference, but the first time speaking on this topic. The topic is very personal to me because I was that career mom many years ago. Once I have time to enjoy some of my summer, I might just share with you some of what I shared in my workshop.

Spirit West Coast

The other event that keep me busy and away from home was three days at Spirit West Coast in Monterey. I could have taken some pictures with my Nikon at this event, but my focus was on finding sponsors for a lot of Compassion kids. Once I arrived home on Saturday night, I did learn that 165 children were sponsored over those three days! Praise God!

So I finally printed out my August list of prompts and will do my best to share a set of photos with you next week. In the meantime, why don’t you print out the August list and join me for some photo fun?

Watching God work

Last week, I was able to spend three amazing (cold!) days at Spirit West Coast with some of the most wonderful Compassion advocates around.

Spirit West Coast crew

On Friday night, a few of us were standing among the crowd waiting for Bob Lenz to come on stage to speak. (Actually, they were all waiting for Thousand Foot Krutch to come on stage, but that is beside the point.) There were a few technical difficulties and Bob ended up having 5 minutes to give his 30 minute talk. But Bob is so great at what he does, he made all the right points that he needed to make. Then we started walking through the crowd, handing child packets to anyone who raised their hand. I handed a child packet to one young lady and she looked at the child’s birth date and said, “Wow, that is my birth date!” I told her to hang onto the packet, pray about it that night, and if she decided to sponsor the child, come by one of the Compassion tables the next day.

Saturday afternoon, Scott (our fearless leader!) gathered all of us to pray for the day and for God to bring the people to sponsor the children that He knew needed to be sponsored that day. Not too long after this, the young lady I had handed the child packet to came by the booth!

new Compassion sponsor

Jessie decided to sponsor little Jose in El Salvador!

I didn’t know when Jessie’s birthday was when I handed her that child packet, but God did. And He knew that Jessie was just the right person to sponsor little Jose. I will be praying for both of them as they begin this wonderful relationship together through Compassion.

What about you? Would you like to sponsor a child who shares your birthday? You don’t have to wait for someone to hand you a child packet at a concert, you can start your search today on the Compassion web site. You have the chance to make a difference in the life of a child living in extreme poverty today. Don’t wait, your Jose may be waiting for you.