Tomorrow morning I will be boarding a plane with my husband and our 5 children to head to the Dominican Republic to tour 3 of Compassion International’s programs.
On many levels this has been a dream come true for our family.
First, to experience first-hand what many Compassion Blogger’s have written so passionately about and Secondly, to utilize our Family Foundation resources in a way that is so much bigger than us, or anything we could ever do on our own.
But how do you prepare your children (or yourself) for the extreme poverty that they will see?
Until now, poverty has been a generic concept.
There has never been a name or a face attached to it.
We have never stood in the midst of it.
We have never experienced true poverty or known anyone personally who has lived in extreme poverty.
Extreme poverty is defined as average daily consumption of $1.25 or less and means living on the edge of subsistence. Via The World Bank
All that is about to change for our family and we would so welcome and appreciate your prayers.
You see, poverty now has a name for us (Erisia & Jhon Henry) and two precious faces.
We cannot wait to meet them, hear their stories and most of all hug them.
We have hopes and dreams for each of them and for their families.
We believe they can be released from poverty.
Internet connection willing, I will write about our experiences this week on the blog, open up discussion about what I’m learning on the TMD Facebook page and share photos from our trip on Instagram.
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I will be praying for your family and your trip! How amazing that you all get to go! I just returned from Uganda a few weeks ago. That was my first exposure to extreme poverty. Meeting the Ugandan moms and in some cases grandmothers whose children are sponsored through Forgotten Children Worldwide was an amazing experience. To try to convey all of my emotions to my family who had to stay behind has been difficult so I blogged about it. I have posted many of my feelings and experiences in my blog. I can’t wait to read about yours as well! The link below is to just one of my posts.
Our family took our first mission trip to the Dominican last fall with Score International. You will be blessed!