Celebrating Sponsorship

This year, as we celebrate sponsorship throughout the month of May, we want to make sure we’re also celebrating all our class sponsors. Class sponsors come alongside a whole class of students and provide essential resources for the class like school supplies and educational materials – even teachers’ salaries! One of the neatest things about sponsoring a class is that you become part of a cluster of sponsors, surrounding your class with love and support. That means you can choose to sponsor the same class together with friends and family and share the connection and the excitement! Sponsor a Class…

10 years ago, Impact launched the Support a Class program, asking ten sponsors to come alongside each class in our Vida Schools. 10 years later, the reasons why still sound all too familiar: the gap between what child sponsorship covers and the actual expenses to care comprehensively for kids in Vida Schools new laws in Guatemala driving up educational expenses the implications of the global economy a heartfelt desire to take better care of Vida staff who sacrifice so much for the sake of the Gospel  Support a Class 10 years ago, sponsors stepped up. In 2015, 104 sponsors became…

“I used to be a student at one of the Vida schools – at Vida Purulhá,” Teacher Cindy shares. “I remember clearly that there were only a few classrooms. But every year, more groups of students would arrive, and new sponsors who wanted to support the children came.” Teacher Cindy’s childhood school when it had only a few classrooms Every May, we celebrate sponsorship at Impact Ministries. In the midst of celebrating 25 years of Impact, there’s so much worth celebrating!  the first Impact child was sponsored in 2001 Cindy was matched with her sponsor in 2009 in 2015, sponsors…