This week, keeping families together means looking for 28 sponsors in 28 days for our 28 new kids!Meet Our 28 New ChildrenAs you have heard, we have 28 new additions to the Open Arms family! Whoa! This is the most we have ever accepted at one time. We have 20 new children in Camalu and eight new children in La Mision. And they need sponsors: Sponsors to pray for them, sponsors to help support them with as little as $25/month, sponsors let them know they are loved, cherished, and cared for. Your support lets a child know that someone, somewhere in the world believes in them and is rooting for them. By becoming a sponsor, you can change the course of a child's life. You can be the person God uses to keep this child off the streets and out of an orphanage. Your sponsorship of a child makes an enormous, measurable difference. The children pictured below are real kids in our care, kids you can correspond with and come visit. They aren't sad faces on a TV screen asking you to send your support to an unknown destination. When you sponsor a child at OA, you can come meet them, hug them, eat with them, play with them, and share life together. Daniel, our co-founder, remembers growing up in an orphanage where his sponsors would come and spend time with him. He recalls, "I remember, when one of my sponsors would come for a visit, how good it would make me feel. When others couldn't come I would receive letters, and they would encourage me to keep going. Life is hard in Mexico, but knowing that someone cared about me, was praying for me, and loved me from afar changed my course in life. I am who I am today because so many sponsors believed in me and supported me." We know firsthand what a profound impact sponsorship can have on a child. Daniel is living proof that sponsors can actually change the course of a child's life! When Open Arms first began 11 years ago, a couple from California came as part of a missions team. When they arrived and saw Daniel, they said, "That is the boy I have sponsored for the last 15 years. That is the Daniel I prayed for, gave to every month, and received updates on. I knew he had left the orphanage, but I didn't know what he was doing. Look at him now! He's all grown up, married, and starting his own ministry." It blessed their hearts so much to see that the seed they had planted and tended was not just surviving, but flourishing. For just $25 a month, you can make a lasting difference in the lives of these children. Help us keep them off the streets, out of orphanages, and with their families. Click here to read more about sponsoring a child, or here for our FAQs. Or, simply click on the pictures of our new kids below to read more about their stories. You may also reply to this email, and we will send you all the information you will need. Each of these children has a desperate story that only God can heal. Please join us in praying for them. Thank you in advance for your willingness to support the least of these. May God bless you richly! |