Blue Valley Baptist Church, we are grateful for your gift to plant a new church, Igreja Batista, in Maranhão, Brazil. Children and youth living in this region of northeastern Brazil have few opportunities for holistic development and often lack hope for the future. Igreja Batista is located in a remote, rural community of extreme poverty. The community lacks basic services such as safe water and sanitation. Typical homes in the area have mud walls, cement floors and tile roofs. Common health ... Read More
Welcome! We Are So Glad You Are Here!
We are so glad you have joined us in planting churches with Compassion International. This website is set up especially for you to keep you informed and engaged with all that your support is doing. Every 30-60 days, updates will be posted here on the progress of this church plant. This will continue until the building is complete and registered children are participating in Compassion’s program. We will alert you of newly added content, but feel free to visit often as you think of and pray for ... Read More
Partnering with Compassion International
Thank you for partnering with Compassion International to bring the hope of Jesus to children and families living in extreme poverty in Brazil. By partnering with us to plant Igreja Batista, you are being a catalyst to help a local church create a permanent presence of their ministry by constructing a new church building. The facility also gives the church the capacity to offer Compassion’s holistic child development program. Compassion International highly values our partnerships — ... Read More
UNICEF Affirms Faith-Based Approach for Children in Poverty
Everything we do at Compassion International is in partnership with the local church. We are convinced that this is the most effective approach in releasing children from poverty. We thought you would appreciate the following article as it is a third-party perspective that affirms that strategy. Since it was established in 1946, UNICEF has been a leader in researching the needs of children living in poverty and identifying effective solutions to those needs. Today, UNICEF’s research is used to ... Read More