As the world’s leading Christian child development sponsorship ministry, Compassion International is committed to eliminating the root causes of poverty for children around the globe. Our passion and our purpose reside in our unwavering commitment to our Lord Jesus Christ and the ability of His Church to execute His command to serve the poor.
For more than 50 years, Compassion’s ministry has successfully released children from spiritual, physical, economic and social poverty in Jesus’ name. The essential key to this achievement lies in our focus on the holistic development of a child, cultivation of a one-to-one relationship between that child and a Christian sponsor, and engagement of the local church to nurture this alliance.
Compassion’s philosophy of connecting the local church with committed sponsors through its holistic child development sponsorship program (CDSP) provides the most strategic way to end poverty. Compassion equips the local church with resources and training to help children living in some of the poorest and most vulnerable communities in the world. These children — empowered by the local church and Compassion’s holistic development program — become responsible, fulfilled Christian adults who share God’s heart and transform the lives of their families, communities and nations.