You can personally sponsor a needy child. When they get fed, clothed, educated, and cared for in a loving environment, you experience the joy of sponsorship!
Millions of children in Asia, Africa and Latin America are destitute. Wars and natural disasters have added to the distress in some areas. Even many who live with their own parents go hungry, wear rags, and don't go to school because their parents are unable to find work and therefore can't pay local school fees. Many children wander the streets looking for scraps of food. Most suffer from malnutrition. Sometimes their fate is much worse. Many are abused. Some are kidnapped and used as slaves.
Thousands of needy children are cared for in children's homes operated by indigenous groups. Regular support from sponsors helps provide daily food, clothing, shelter, and Bible teaching by native workers.
Some needy children are assisted while they live with their parents or relatives. The aid sent by sponsors enables such children to have proper nutrition and to afford an education by buying school uniforms and books. This kindness usually results in the child and the whole family turning to Christ. Sometimes missionaries with big hearts and small budgets take needy children into their own homes and raise them as their own children.
By sending $20 or more per month, you can help one needy child. With your prayers, he or she may even grow up to be a missionary for our Lord.
To begin experiencing the joy of sponsorship yourself, you may visit our to complete our online form. Or send your first check to Christian Aid to receive your assignment.
Christian Aid will send you the name, photo and biographical sketch of the one assigned to you, as well as information about the indigenous ministry responsible. We will also send you updates on the mission with which your child receives care as they become available (once or twice each year).
Your monthly gifts will be sent to the indigenous mission in charge of the one you sponsor. They will be combined with those of others to provide for the children within their group.
Then, as you pray each day by name for the child whose picture you hold in your hands, you will have the deep satisfaction of knowing that your gifts help meet the needs of that precious child in an area where you probably could never go as a foreign missionary.
Most of all, as you minister to "one of the least of these, my brethren," you will be ministering to Christ Himself (Matthew 25:40). What joy indeed!
