Congratulations! You just started sponsoring your first Compassion child!

Now what?

If you really have just started sponsoring a Compassion child, I know you will like this idea.

But even if you have been sponsoring a Compassion child for a while and you are stuck thinking of what to write, or what to include with your letters, I know you will like this idea too.

One thing I know from traveling and visiting a couple of our Compassion sponsored children, these kids don’t have many, it any at all, printed photos of themselves.

I remember being a new mom with my camera, and I was constantly taking photos of our firstborn, and I still love to take photos of my children. Even in our digital age, I have come up with a few ways to make sure I am printing out photos of my family and displaying them in our home so I can enjoy them.

Last year, we began sponsoring a new young lady in Colombia.

I sent an email to Compassion to ask for any of her previous photos. Did you know that you can do that?

All of the registered Compassion children have their photos updated at least every 18 months to 2 years. With over two million children registered currently, that is a big undertaking to have the photos updated on a regular basis.

But I wonder how many of these kids have their photos at home?

With the previous photos I received from Compassion, and Alix had a birthday coming up soon, I ‘created’ a collage of photos to wish her a happy birthday!

I use a website called Canva to create these pages and save them as a PNG file so I can add them as a full photo page when I write letters to my Compassion children online.

You can be super creative with this, or just add a simple message or Bible verse.

What do you do with photos when you write to your Compassion child?