by Kristy Tolley | Mar 17, 2014 | children, Christian, Compassion, Poverty, Uncategorized
I don’t know how it happened. One day I was faithfully sending letters out to my Compassion International child each week, complete with coloring pages and stickers. The next thing I know, I receive this in the mail. A little reminder that it’s been awhile. I...
by Kristy | Sep 4, 2013 | children, Christian, Compassion, Moms, Poverty, Uncategorized, Women, writing
I was an awkward kid. I was hyper, and liked to talk a lot. I also operated under the assumption that everyone was just a friend I hadn’t met yet, so if you made eye contact – you were fair game. One summer, when I was in second grade, my parents enrolled my...
by Kristy | Aug 15, 2013 | children, Compassion, Poverty, Uncategorized
A few weeks ago I signed up to be a blogger for Compassion International. It’s this incredibly cool program that began five years ago to enable bloggers to help raise awareness about the impoverished children the world. Assignments of different topics go out once to...