Child Sponsorship

Child sponsorship programs allow people to provide daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly monetary support to children in different countries. This type of program has a valuable reward for those individuals or couples who will sponsor the needy. There are many poor and helpless children who need child sponsorship and are waiting for someone who cares to take them under their wing. "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this; To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world" (James 1:27).

Becoming a contributor to the welfare of children around the world is the least many Americans can do. America's poorest citizens are just as needy as those in third world countries, so the opportunities are available at hand and for the adventuresome as well. Child sponsorship isn't for the faint of heart because the conditions in which sponsored children live, if experienced first hand by the sponsors, are sometimes horrific and unbelievable. These conditions are not just a third world problem. The disaster in the New Orleans region by Hurricane Katrina has proven the nation's impoverished can become even more impoverished. Many already lived in squalor and could have benefited from child sponsorship programs, but now, children and adults of all ages and status will need help.

Many missions to international sites have taken on new life by getting short term missionaries involved by creating these sponsorship programs. When the short term missionaries go on a mission to the region of their child sponsorship, they get to visit directly with sponsored children, take things to them and observe the living conditions and family, if any. Child sponsorship programs have created a new generation of foster families that are helping thousands of children right where they are, or by bringing them out of their situation and into a new home that cared enough to open their home for the needy. This is a true expression of "religion, pure and undefiled."

When a person is burdened to take on the challenge to provide for a year or more to a child in need, they must accept the responsibilities that go along with that program. To start and finish a child sponsorship term is an honorable accomplishment. But to start and drop out, stop paying support, or fail to meet the needs of the children is worse than never having signed up with the child sponsorship programs at all. One must take their involvement in this type of system very seriously because young lives are counting on this support to help them reach a better life.

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