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Compassion Knows No Boundaries

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There is a book I want to read called, “Love has a Face.”   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFDSSUyeBm0 about a woman dedicated to serving orphaned children living in poverty in Uganda. For most of my life, I’ve felt God touching my heart to be a part of helping those in need. From teaching deaf and hearing impaired children in the schools, to working as a therapist at a mental health facility, to talking with young women at a crisis pregnancy center, to financially helping/being a friend to those in in poverty stricken countries across the world…..God has prompted me to care and have compassion for His children.   It’s hard for me to believe, but it’s been almost 9 years that our family felt the call to sponsor Christopher through Compassion International .   http://www.compassion.com/  Christopher lives in Uganda and is less than 1 month older than my son.  (at the time we began sponsoring him, they were both 8 years old) It’s been such an amazing journey.   Pictures of Christop