“For Deaf people, not being face-to-face can be even harder than for hearing people,” Keener says.

“[They’ve been] looking forward to working face-to-face in the natural way that they’re used to.”

With support from Wycliffe USA and a local church, Deaf believers translate God’s Word into their native sign language. More about that here. The team has completed 38 passages so far, and they’re hoping to finish sections from the New Testament this year.

Progress is slow because the team has little access to translation consultants.

“There’s always a lack of specialists who can come and work with them on challenging issues,” Keener says.

“[The team is] always saying, we can use more time from people who know this so that they can help us get through more translation more quickly.”

Most of the Deaf in El Salvador don’t identify with religion because they haven’t had an opportunity to learn about God.

To grow in their faith and knowledge of Jesus, they need Scripture in Salvadoran Sign Language. Pray for the health and safety of the translation team as they press forward with this vital task.

“When hearing people learn to read and write, we sound things out. Deaf people, typically, are not learning to speak as a child because they don’t hear things. When reading is presented to them, it’s a language they don’t understand,” Keener says.

“The first language Deaf people wrap their minds around is sign language. They tend to be much more comfortable in the sign language that is their heart language.”

More than 45-percent of El Salvador’s population identifies as Roman Catholic. However, many Deaf people do not associate themselves with a religion.   (Photo courtesy of Mauricio Cuéllar/Unsplash) 

“It’s very common for Deaf people to have communication issues, even in their own household, because most Deaf people have hearing parents. So, even if there’s a Christian family, a young Deaf person within that household may struggle to understand the Gospel,” Wycliffe USA’s Andy Keener explains.

With help from Wycliffe USA and the support of a local church, Deaf believers are translating God’s Word into Salvadoran Sign Language.

“To date, the team has translated 38 Bible passages; we usually frame these as Bible stories,” Keener says. Support the project through Wycliffe USA here.

“In 2021, they’re hoping to complete portions in Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, 1 Timothy, and 1 Peter.”

In El Salvador and beyond, sign language Scripture helps Deaf people know God and follow Jesus.

“I’ve had some (Deaf) individuals tell me, ‘When I go to church and I’m [watching] an interpreter, the Scripture feels awkward. I don’t fully understand it and fully grasp it. But when the translation is done and I view the Scriptures, all of a sudden it’s like it was spoken just to me,’” Keener shares.

“‘It’s so much easier to engage when language is no longer a barrier between me and Scripture.’”

Header image courtesy of Wycliffe USA.

Deaf Bible Society works alongside sign language Bible translators to close the Scripture gap. As the Americas Field Coordinator for DBS, Azael BuPerry– a Deaf man – ensures everyone is on the same page.

“Wycliffe, I believe all of them can hear,” BuPerry says through a female interpreter.

“It’s hard (for them) to have direct communications with the Deaf community and especially with the translation team.”

Language barriers between Deaf and hearing people prove a constant challenge, as discussed previously here. BuPerry serves as a liaison between Deaf translators in the Americas and the non-Deaf support team connected to each project.

Click here to support sign language Bible translations in the Americas.

Why is sign language Scripture important?

(Graphic courtesy of Deaf Bible Society)

Deaf Bible Society currently works alongside Wycliffe USA and The Seed Company to translate God’s Word into the sign languages of Colombia, Honduras, El Salvador, and Brazil. Next year, they hope to expand and start new translation work in Ecuador, Guatemala, the Dominion Republic, and Costa Rica.

Multiple Spanish and English versions of the Bible are available for free on platforms like BibleGateway.com. However, written text doesn’t quite meet the spiritual needs of Deaf communities.

See how sign language Scripture transforms Deaf people like Maria.

Sign language Scripture is so critical because it unlocks understanding for the Deaf, BuPerry explains.

“I can read and write in English, and I can understand it. But, when I actually watch the Scriptures in my heart language, (American Sign Language) I can clearly understand what the Scriptures are saying.”

He compares the language difference to eating soup with a fork.

“If we’re trying to eat a bowl of soup with a fork, you can taste it but you don’t actually get to have all of it. So, it’s better to eat a bowl of soup with a spoon because then you get all of the food,” BuPerry says.

“It’s just like reading the Scriptures. If you’re able to see in your heart language, then you get all of the Word.”

How can I help?

(Graphic courtesy of Deaf Bible Society)

Ongoing prayer and financial support are critical to “closing the Scripture gap” in the Americas. Click here to get started.

“It’s going to be a long time before we finish [all the translation work],” BuPerry says.

“Pray that we are able to at least start these projects for all of the Americas.”

Header image courtesy of aitoff via Pixabay.

The BBC reports that about 500 immigrants from Central American countries joined in a march in Tijuana, Mexico towards the border. The report says the march was peaceful at first and people carried banners and shouted, “We aren’t criminals! We are hard workers!”

However, the BBC reports that once the protesters passed the security barrier, they began racing for the border. Some border patrol officers were assaulted and hit by rocks.

For protection, U.S. border patrol officers shot canisters of tear gas out to push immigrants back during the chaos.

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol tweeted on November 25, “Today, several migrants threw projectiles at the agents in San Diego. Border Patrol agents deployed tear gas to dispel the group because of the risk to agents’ safety. Several agents were hit by the projectiles.”

Using the tear gas, men, women, families, and children were caught in the midst.

NDTV reports on a photo that went viral of a mother, Maria Meza, and her three daughters who ran from a tear gas canister.

Meza told NDTV that she never thought the border patrol would fire the bombs because there were so many children present.

Following the protest, the U.S. shut the border crossing for several hours, and President Trump threatened to close the border permanently.

Fleeing for Safety

A majority of families and unaccompanied minors who are at the border have fled from their countries due to gang violence.

“When you hear the interviews by media of families who are fleeing or children who are fleeing, consistently we hear the stories about extortion and gang violence, and how unsafe their communities are, and how their government and police force can no longer keep them safe,” Bethany Christian Services’ Dona Abbott says.

“Remember, they represent countries that have the highest child murder rates in the world. When you think of that, no wonder families are fleeing with their children. They want to keep their children safe like all of us want to keep our children safe.”

Often, families have traveled together in small groups from Central American countries riddled with gang violence, especially Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.

However, children have also been sent alone by their parents on the journey to the border because parents have family members or contacts in the U.S. who can take care of them.

“Like many people worldwide, when you flee a situation, or you find yourself in trouble, you reach out to extended family members,” Abbott says.

Of the unaccompanied minors that have fled to the border, Abbott says 95 percent have contacts in the U.S. who are willing to help support them and help them adjust to the U.S.

“So, often even though they’re fleeing from something, they’re also fleeing to somebody who can offer them safety and protection.”

Abbott says this journey from their home country to the U.S. southern border is scary, unpredictable, and uncertain. Kids are unprepared and don’t know how to react to unexpected violence or a lack of food on the way, and they don’t know how to make an asylum claim at the border.

So far, CNN reports that 14,000 unaccompanied immigrant children are in U.S. custody, which is a record high.

Abbott says there are 67 million displaced people in the world fleeing from different situations.

“It’s not surprising to hear that a few hundred thousand of them would be at our border asking for the safety that millions are asking for from others around the world.”

The unaccompanied children, as well as families who have gone to the border seeking asylum, are still being put in detention centers while their cases are being processed.

Abbott says Bethany believes, “when people approach the United States, asking for asylum, they ought to be given a fair opportunity for their asylum situation heard and that while that’s happening, that they’re treated humanely with compassion, that their basic needs are met and then above all else, that families can care for and protect their children and that unaccompanied children have a family-like atmosphere to wait in while their asylum case is being processed.”

Abbott also thinks that the U.S. should set itself up as a compassionate model of how a country should respond to people fleeing for their lives. It should offer sanctuary or should assist the Central American governments in creating a plan for how they can bring safety to their communities once again so people do not feel like fleeing is their only option.

(Photo courtesy of Bethany Christian Services via Facebook)

Bethany’s Work

Bethany has helped over 5,000 families reunite with children who have either been separated at the border or who’ve been unaccompanied.

They also help about 500 unaccompanied children a year through temporary foster care.

Abbott encourages you to be educated about immigration and why people are fleeing from their countries in Central America. You can also act as a volunteer and help support kids and families. You can help by being a foster parent, a tutor, or donating.

Help support Bethany’s work as they reach hurting immigrant families and children.

Pray for wisdom for the U.S. government and the governments of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala.

Header photo by Mitch Lensink on Unsplash.

He is receiving mixed responses. Some have supported his message, while others are criticizing him.

Bethany Christian Services’ Chris Palusky shares the ministry does not agree the Bible says it’s alright to split up families and they’re reflecting that in their work.

“Bethany is advocating hard, like let those families stay together as they’re going through the process. So, we’re not advocating, we’re not trying to get into politics of open borders or anything like that. We’re just saying let families stay together as they go through this process,” Palusky says.

Fleeing Danger

Families have been fleeing their homes in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras due to desperate situations of violence and gang-related threats.

(Photo courtesy of Bethany Christian Services via Facebook)

“We’ve heard instances where if a family didn’t pay a gang protection money, then they would take their daughter and put that daughter into prostitution, or if they tried to stop a gang from trying to take one of their kids to be recruited into a gang, a family member would be killed.”

Palusky also says people who haven’t complied with gangs have been executed in front of their children.

The journey fleeing their countries and going to the U.S. border to request asylum is not much easier. On the journey, girls have been raped and men have been beaten and robbed.

Parents have tried to keep their kids safe along the journey so that they may request asylum from the U.S., but now, once they reach the border, their families are being separated as a deterrent policy.

“Asking for asylum no longer allows you to be released or that asylum request considered and then released into the community while your case proceeds through immigration court,” Bethany’s Dona Abbott says.

Families used to be allowed to stay together as their case for asylum was reviewed.

Now, children as young as 18-months-old have been separated from their parents.

A majority of the more than two thousand separated children have been sent to large detention centers.

Reports have called this separation traumatizing and torture that inflicts mental suffering.

Families for Children

“Bethany believes that family was created by God to protect, care for children, to bring them up right, to train them and thus, Bethany believes that children belong in their family and or a family environment,” Abbott says.

While children are being separated from their parents, Bethany still sees the impact and importance of children being embraced by a family unit instead of being put into overcrowded detention centers.

They’re finding foster families who will bring children in, and care and provide for them.

“We’re saying again, family is key to everything even if it’s not their blood family. A foster family is much better than being put into a detention center with hundreds if not thousands of other people,” Palusky says.

Bethany is further working with policymakers to find a solution to the border problem.

They hope to keep families together once again as their cases are reviewed and preferably not in detention centers.

Working with Policymakers

“We know the immigration system in the United States is complex, difficult, and in many times, just difficult and it’s hard for families to know how to get through that process,” Abbott says.

“We’re looking to inform policymakers on how immigration reform can happen that supports and strengthens families and cares for them during this difficult time in their families’ life.”

Abbott says Bethany hopes to advocate with policymakers to see how they can also help address organized crimes in these families’ home countries. If there is a way to combat against it, families would no longer be forced to flee.

Palusky adds, “If we could take the investment that reactively working with right now to having people come across the border and invested that in countries for better governance, better training of police, giving people security, we would not only hinder or slow down the flow of people, we’d also help to build up these countries to be good business partners for the United States.”

Living out Matthew 25

Rather than separating families, Palusky says we should live out Matthew 25 and serve the least of these.

“For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me… And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’”
Matthew 25:35-40

(Photo courtesy of Bethany Christian Services via Facebook)

Be a mentor or foster family to children who have been separated from their families, and contact your representatives to speak up for families.

Pray for wisdom of leaders and policymakers as well as the safety of those fleeing their countries. And, pray families would be reunited soon.

Recently, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security would enforce strict deterrent measures on those attempting to cross the United States-Mexico border illegally.

Sessions said there would be a “zero tolerance” policy and anyone caught unlawfully immigrating would be prosecuted.

However, Sessions has also stated, “If you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you and that child will be separated from you as required by law. If you don’t like that, then don’t smuggle children over our borders.”

Unaccompanied Children Fleeing Violence

Between October 2017 and December 2017, more than 7,635 unaccompanied children were resettled in the United States. Most of these children were fleeing violence in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.

(Photo courtesy of Arturo Rivera on Unsplash)

“Children have been fleeing out of the Northern Triangle in Central America for about ten years and each year it gets increasingly worse, meaning that the transnational gangs have moved in about 15 years ago to the extent that it has become very, very difficult for families to function safely in those countries,” Bethany Christian Services’ Dana Anderson says.

For the last 15 years, Anderson has been working with children and families who’ve fled violence and conflict. She has seen the changes of strains in the people’s native countries as well as in the United States.

“They don’t come until the push factors have gotten so bad that it’s literally– it’s either run or they’ll be killed,” Anderson says.

“In the last two years in particular, the number of unaccompanied children that are entering into the United States asking for protection – it’s in the thousands. There’s 40 to 50 thousand children a year that make this journey.”

The journey Anderson refers to is dangerous as families and, many times, unaccompanied children leave their country and make their way north through Mexico and up to the United States.

Along this path, there are threats of human trafficking, kidnapping for ransom, and rape.

Requesting Asylum

Yet, families and children are still trying to make their way to the border, trying to step onto American soil to request asylum.

“According to U.S. law, that’s acceptable,” Anderson says.

“That’s how people need to do that. They can’t ask for asylum until they’re on U.S. soil. So, this narrative that people are entering illegally is not accurate. Everybody has the right to cross an international border for protection and ask for help and that’s what these families are doing. That’s what these children are doing and we should not only because the Gospel calls us to, but our laws call us to help.”

Yet because of Sessions’ and the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security’s enforcement, asylum is not being granted and children are being separated from their parents.

Separation from Parents Defined as Torture

Amnesty International argues that this separation and new policy change is inhumane. Yet, the Washington Post shares that by the United Nations’ definition, it’s also torture.

The United Nations defines torture as:

“any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or her or a third person information or a confession, punishing him or her for an act he or she or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed.”

The Washington Post reports that without parental support, children will often face stunted physical growth, develop mental impairments, and have higher stress and anxiety levels. Depending on the length of time separated from parents or parental figures, children can develop lasting problems.

“The problem is that initial separation and then the length of time they’re separated – that’s when the trauma is occurring.” Anderson says the way children are separated from their families also contributes to their trauma.

(Photo courtesy of Charlein Garcia on Unsplash)

“It’s done very abruptly,” she says. “The children aren’t prepared. They don’t understand what’s happening… There’s very little sensitivity around their developmental needs.”

Foster Care and Family Reunification

Governmental escorts have brought or referred children to Bethany.

If a child’s parents are found and they are in a safe location and situation, Bethany will help reunite the children with their families. However, this is not always the case and Bethany may have to put children in the process of transitional foster care.

“Then our job is to find their parents or family members who would be willing to sponsor them and then work through that sponsor process which can take anywhere from two, three weeks, to a few months,” Anderson says.

If children have family members in the country, Bethany will work to secure a place with them. If they don’t, Bethany will work to find a foster family.

“Within the last couple weeks, we’ve received referrals for 28 children to come into our program. Twenty-six of them have been separated from parents at the border,” Anderson says.

“These are young children. These are children five and under at times. We have an 18-month-old who’s been separated. We have a three-and-a-half-year-old who’s been separated from a mother.”

Anderson shares that she recently spoke with a foster parent who saw the pain and grief in the five-year-old boy she is taking care of. He often cries himself to sleep and clutches onto a laminated paper napkin with stick figure drawings of his family because that is all he was allowed to bring with him.

Seeing how scripture calls people to love children, orphans, and refugees, Bethany is acting that out by serving these children and ensuring they are either reunited with their families or placed with families who will love them.

“We have this humanitarian crisis right now happening in the United States and we believe that God has called us to step into this crisis and to care for these children while they’re in the midst of chaos,” Anderson says.

Be a Voice for Broken Families

Today, join Bethany in prayer for these children and families that have been separated. Pray God will bring peace into their lives and that He will reunite them. Pray He will settle the violence in the people’s native countries and restore safety so they can live without fear.

(Photo courtesy of Bethany Christian Services via Facebook)

Bethany also invites you to be a foster family to these refugee children. These children need a light, they need hope, and they need support as they’ve lost everything, even their families. Be a family to them and show the grace, love, and goodness of God.

“There are hundreds of children that are being separated from families at the border, little ones,” Anderson says.

“The public needs to be aware of this and calling their representatives and their congressmen and advocating that this isn’t the American way. This isn’t our ideals, this shouldn’t be happening in 2018 on U.S. soil. We should be caring for children. We should be loving children. We should be stepping in and helping and not furthering their trauma.”

(Photo courtesy Compassion International)

El Salvador (MNN) — This past year, murder rates in El Salvador have skyrocketed. In the first nine months of the year, 4,930 were killed. With the population standing around 6.5 million, The Economist News reports the murder rate is 20 times larger than in the United States. This increase in violence has caused the country to be named the most violent country on earth, aside from those at war.

What caused it?

The last time the country saw this peak of violence was during the civil war, which ended in 1992.

“We saw migration and civil war creating a situation of the break down of families,” Edouard Lassegue of Compassion International says.

As many families without male role models were forced to leave the country, organized crime started among gangs. After committing the offenses, they were sent back to El Salvador, where organized crime continued on.

In 2012, the government backed a truce between the two gangs Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio 18, which promised to stop killing rivaling gang members. Murder rates dropped considerably, and police stopped putting constant targets on their backs.

But, the truce did not remain a permanent solution.

(Photo courtesy Compassion International)

“The gang leaders evidently used that time, when they were no longer targeted by the police,…to organize themselves and become better armed.” Though murders between the gangs had lessened, killings of civilians hadn’t.

The arrival of elections last year and pressure from the population pushed the government to drop the support they gave and turn against gangs once again. Now, gang members are becoming more and more violent.

“The month of August saw over 900 murders in the small country of El Salvador. The day of August 23rd, which happens to be my birthday, saw 52 murders that day,” Lassegue says.

With a warzone just outside the home, families barely take a step outside, and parents won’t let kids leave the house unaccompanied, as gang leaders target young people to recruit. Children as young as seven or eight may be recruited. But the central age to begin gang work is 14 to 16 years old.

But that’s not the whole story of El Salvador; it’s just part of it.

The other side of the story

“Men and women are standing in the gap. [They] are doing what is right and have dedicated themselves not to let their community, their family, their country, go down in the path of violence,” Lassegue says.

“There is one institution in the midst of all of this that is still respected in the country by both the good guys and the bad guys. And those people who have decided to stand in the gap, and that institution, is the church.”

Pastors and their families have remained in violent communities to continue their ministry work, to continue sharing that there can still be good, and to continue being a shield for children to survive and develop.

This is where Compassion steps in.

“We walk alongside of those pastors. We hold their hand of support, of prayer, and providing for them and their church members so that they can minister adequately to those children and young people in their communities.”

Compassion reinforces the ministry work the church does, and their sponsorship program introduces kids to Jesus and prevents them from joining gangs and violence.

Recently, the Compassion Director for El Salvador spoke with a man after a church service. Both his daughters were in the Compassion-sponsorship program, and he was sharing his appreciation for what was being done. Through the sponsorship, his daughters were able to stay out of any violence or ricochet of violence. That man was a gang leader and said if he’d had a program like this, he wouldn’t be where he was today.

(Photo courtesy Compassion International)

“That’s what we are doing in El Salvador: rescuing children and young people from joining gangs and giving them the opportunity for their lives,” Lassegue says.

“The media portrays the situation as hopeless, as something that is such a dire situation; but at the same time, I want also this side of the story to be told regarding the heroes of the faith who are turning things around in their community one person at a time.”

Pray for the country of El Salvador. Pray that violence will stop and people will look to the Lord for justice. Also pray for children to have peace in their hearts and avoid becoming gang members.

To invest in a child in El Salvador, click here to explore sponsorship.

Emergency officials say reports of injuries and collapsed buildings are trickling in because phone systems have been down in most of the country since a September quake.

Paradise Bound Ministries issued an immediate prayer alert. They indicated the epicenter was near many of the villages where they work, including La Reina and La Bendicion. In addition, since the quake struck near the volcano that erupted in September, many of the affected villages will be the same. The team is still trying to establish communication in the villages.

The good news: at first report, the Paradise Bound staff and their families are all accounted for, and their mission base is undamaged.

Over 15 years of ministry, Paradise Bound Ministries has developed a comprehensive and growing suite of programs meeting the needs of children, families, and villages for basic sustenance, medical care, and Christian ministry.

As a result, teams can provide regular medical care, pastoral training, and discipleship training. They also help rebuild homes for families, and run Open Doors Orphanage.

Thank God for keeping the staff safe. Pray for wisdom as they begin to assess damages in the surrounding communities in the days ahead, and ask God to provide the resources needed.

While the food was being prepared, Operation Mobilization volunteers shared Christ's love with the people attending the event.

Materials for the construction of the building were purchased in Honduras with the money that was raised, and 70 team members went to the village of San Marcos Ocotepeque to begin construction and to work with the people in the village.

While some members worked on the construction of the building, others offered free medical help and medication. The medical team also spoke to their patients about the hope of Christ. Other team members went door-to-door to share God's love.

With the building done, Daniel from OM El Salvador said, "We proclaimed it to be a place to worship and bless His name." Many people came to the Lord through this trip. The local church can now disciple the new believers in their new building.

Pray that the new believers will grow in their faith. Also pray for the local church that they will continue to minister to the people in their village.

Any connection between the gang and
the drug cartels is still unconfirmed. However, Mexican authorities say that campers
and hikers have been targeted in the past by common criminals, and the region
is known for violent drug-related crime.

That
said, the attack on children presents a disconcerting change. Tim Glenn with Compassion International says
they have several projects in the region between Oaxaca and Mexico City. While none of their sponsored kids were
victims of the attack, "I think it's a scary new venture in the active
criminal activities. Historically, in the past they left the church alone,
they left the kids alone. This new act of violence is a step in the wrong
direction."

Because Compassion's Child Development Centers and other projects are in somewhat secluded
areas, they do take precautions to prevent such attacks. Glenn explains, "One of the things we
require of our church partners is that they have a safe place for kids to go so
that they can learn, they can play, they can grow and be away from these
type of things in their community."

Ironically,
while the Mexico attack is a step in the "wrong direction," Glenn says the
exact opposite is happening in nearby El Salvador. The country's two largest street gangs called
a truce.

Up until now, the cycle of gang violence made the country the most murderous in the
world last year after neighboring Honduras. Glenn says, "Part of that agreement was that they were going to stay
away from the kids, agreeing that they weren't going to try to get kids to
join. They were going to stay away from kids as targets of their
violence."

Glenn goes on to say, "One of the things that came out of that truce in El Salvador
is one of the gang leaders saying that they'd finally come to the realization that
'all we're doing is hurting each other, killing each other, and we're not
getting anywhere.'" As a result
of the truce, the homicide rate has
been cut in half in just four months. In fact, police say the most dramatic change
was noted on April 14, a day when El Salvador recorded its first 24 hours
without a murder.

Glenn
says El Salvador provides a great example that he hopes others will follow. "The sooner the gangs and gang leaders
realize the affects they have on their own communities, the safer our
own kids will be."

In
the meantime, the Church needs a lot of prayer in Central and South America
where gang activity is on the rise and growing increasingly violent. "Gang activity, sadly, is a reality in a
lot of the developing world. Kids who have very little to cling to go to a
gang for some source of acceptance and relationship."  

But,
says Glenn, Compassion International is making a notable difference. Sponsorships
help with education and more. The Gospel
is what transforms the community from within. Getting the Gospel to the streets
is the hard part. "All we can do is
pray for the protection of our kids and communities, and bring our kids to the
safe haven of that local church that
Compassion partners with."

The
church youth group that suffered Saturday's attack has a lot of healing to do
emotionally and physically. Glenn urges
prayer support for the Gospel workers who are on the front lines. "One of
the first prayer needs that we have is for the church to be the Church in those
communities, for the body of Christ to step up and say 'we're going to take
these kids under our wings. We're going to give them a safe place. We're going
to protect them  from this type of thing
so that they don't have to look to a gang for relationship and
acceptance."

Compassion's work in Mexico began in 1976. There are currently more than 20,500 children participating in 130 child development centers. Compassion partners with churches to help them provide Mexican children with the opportunity to rise above their circumstances and become all God has created them to be.

Check
our Featured Links Section  for more
information on sponsorships.