Justice Week: Compassion International

Learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow. - Isaiah 1:17

Samuel Orlando from Manasseh Ministries in Kansas City is coming to speak in chapel tomorrow. He’ll be sharing about what his ministry does to help victims of human trafficking and his personal journey through the Compassion International system and how he was kept out of child slavery because of his sponsored family.


No, for real. This guy was one of those scruffy kids from the Compassion International pictures you browse through and think, Too bad I don’t have enough money do anything about this.

Read a little bit of his story here:


Samuel Orlando was born in a very poor province of the Dominican Republic called Luperon, Puerto Plata. He had slim possibilities of gaining a decent education due to extreme poverty within the community. His parents were missionaries in Luperon where most children didn’t have the possibility of regular meals much less the resources to obtain an education. At 25, his father first heard of Compassion International, and he immediately started the process to launch this program in Luperon. He saw it as a blessing that would help his son and other children in the community to obtain an education; his father knew that education was one of the keys to overcoming poverty. Unfortunately Samuels’ father passed away, but the vision was planted and five years later his mother married another pastor and returned to Luperon to continue the work that was already begun there.

Thanks to Compassion, Samuel was one of the first children sponsored in that area. A humble family from North America planted a seed and provided him the opportunity to graduate from high school, receive a healthy breakfast, a clean uniform and school supplies, thus changing the course of his life forever. He was able to obtain an education, become a recording engineer, a musician, and a Christian singer. According to Samuel, “One of the greatest things is that now I am able to give to others a similar opportunity that was provided for me!”

Compassion International proves that you don't have to give hundreds of dollars to help someone, but their educational, physical, mental, social, and spiritual growth is worth every penny.

Check it out. I dare you: http://www.compassion.com/

BY: Ariana Matty