Part 51, page 144

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your compassion. For, when you send a gift to help them, you are really giving it back to God, who gave us the most precious gift of all - His Son, our Savior.

However, if we don't find the money to match this gift, we'll lose this opportunity. That is why I pray you will consider writing a check today so we can meet this urgent deadline.

I only wish you could personally see the beautiful faces of the children ... children like María at Father López's orphanage in El Salvador.

Like the other children Father López cares for, María is a victim of El Salvador's war. Her world was a peaceful, happy place until her parents died and she lost everything.

Even now she wakes up in the middle of the night, calling out for her mother. But I told María how people like you help, because we are all one family in Christ, caring for each other. "Even though you lost your parents, you still have a family who cares very much about you," I said. "Just as Jesus does."

Sadly, all 50 orphanages have children who have suffered as no child ever should. Their stories are similar, as are their needs. Your gift, matched dollar for dollar, will go far in helping these orphans.

Sheldon is shy and quiet, a victim of parents who are drug addicts. His thin body needs lots of food. When he came to the Living Water orphanage in Trinidad, he was severely malnourished. And, the orphanage is down to their last bag of rice and beans.

Little Glen Roy was found in his dying mother's arms at an abandoned airport in Grenada. Roma, his new "Mom," is so poor she has only two diapers for Glen Roy. She begged me for diapers and baby food for him and the other orphans she took under her wing.

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