Colombia Sponsor Tour

October 2011

Three dozen other Americans and I traveled to Bogota, Colombia with Compassion International to visit the children we sponsor through our monthly contributions. My sponsored boy, Carlos, and over 50,000 other children throughout Colombia receive nutritional and medical care for their bodies, schooling for their minds, and the good news of Jesus for their souls.

We gathered in Atlanta to board this plane to Colombia.

The view from my hotel room in Bogota.

Bogota City Streets

I'm standing outside Compassion's Colombia national office.

Letters from children to sponsors have been translated and are sorted by country destination.

The first project we visited, one of many run by the Assembly of God denomination.

The view from the third floor.

We divided our donations into three piles like this, one for each project we visited.

Trip North of Bogota

Is this Colombia or Wisconsin?

Sunday worship at the second project.

Authentic Colombian cuisine.

Yum! Milo candy bar. They have Milo cookies, too.

The third project we visited.

We prayed for the project.

Colombian flag.

Bogota From the Air

Colombian countryside.

South American coast.

The eastern end of Jamaica.

The coast near the border between Georgia and Florida.

Georgia.

Downtown Atlanta and the Atlanta airport.