On October 30, 2011, Tony Campolo brought the crowd to its feet at The Meeting House. His challenge was clear: How are you making a difference in someone else’s life? Campolo’s visit marked the beginning of an emerging partnership between The Meeting House and World Vision Canada. After that Sunday, people from The Meeting House sponsored 1,016 children – all in the same community of Mposa, Malawi.

With the introduction of our new mission Transform, we are more excited than ever about our commitment to our brothers and sisters in Mposa, Malawi. We will continue to support individual children through sponsorship dollars and will also support community-based projects that are already making a huge impact .

In addition to funding life-changing initiatives, part of our Transform goals is to invest relationally – reach out and become personally invested in the lives and hearts of others. Here are three ways you can intentionally connect with your sponsor child:

Pray

Prayer is an essential way to support the Mposa community. Pray for the physical and spiritual needs of your sponsor child, their family, the community leaders, and World Vision workers

Communicate

Write to Your Sponsor Child
Did you know that writing a simhttp://www.worldvision.ca/ABOUTUS/Careers/Pages/default.aspxwritten letter can be one of the most special days in the life of your sponsor child? World Vision has provided a simple and effective way to build a friendship with your sponsor child and their family. Here are some tips to writing a great letter to your child and mailing addresses of World Vision offices around the world.

Visit (3 ways)

1. The Meeting House is working with World Vision to coordinate a special trip in the summers for sponsors from The Meeting House to visit Mposa.  This learning trip will give us a great opportunity to learn about World Vision, build relationships with families in Malawi and worship with our BIC family in country.  It’s in the early stages, but stay tuned. We're hopeful we'll have something planned for summer of 2013.
2. Check out World Vision's "Destination Life Change Program".  These volunteer ambassador trips travel to World Vision communities about 4 times per year.  In November 2011, a trip was planned to Mposa, Malawi.  See where the next trips are being planned.
3. Planning on being in Malawi? Apply to World Vision to spend the day visiting your Sponsor Child.