These are the faces of children in our projects in Honduras.

What do you see when you look at their faces? Do you see hope? Joy? Dignity?

That is the goal of all of our programs in each country we serve, to give each child the opportunity to learn, to feel accepted, to see just how much God loves them. And when given that chance, these children truly transform.

The mission trip participants currently in Honduras are seeing this first hand. One participant from our radio partner WPFF in Wisconsin wrote this:

The difference in the children who are in the program [and those who are not] is like the difference between night and day...it's the difference between hopelessness and HOPE...hope of a happy, healthy life. YOU may be the one to put an end to their family's cycle of poverty that has been in existence for generations.

Over the course of this week, several of our partner radio stations will be asking listeners to sponsor some of the children their friends and fellow listeners are serving. If you came from WPFF, WNLI, KSLT, KLMP, WMSJ, or 97.9 The Point, welcome.

If you came looking for more information about child sponsorship, please explore this blog. But if you want to see the impact of child sponsorship, look no further than these faces. Listen to the experience of others, such as this trip participant from WMSJ:

Today we were reminded that we are all one family and these children in God’s eyes are ours. You wouldn’t believe the joy in the eyes of each child who was able to meet their sponsor. It was hard to hold back the tears as we watched when a child was overcome with joy upon meeting their sponsor for the first time, and the hugs and sheer gratitude they had in knowing that they had a sponsor. It was almost as if they were meeting a long lost family member.

But there was also some sadness as one little girl mistook one of our team members to be her sponsor. When he told her he was not her sponsor, she said to him that the sadness in his eyes reflected the sadness in her heart.

What wisdom in that precious child! Proverbs 27:19 tells us that “As water reflects a face, so one’s life reflects the heart.” What is your life reflecting right now? Did you know you could bring such joy and hope to a child for $34 a month?