Hey, welcome to the Happy Ram podcast. I am Ted Cluck.

joined as always by my good friends and partners in radio, Barnabas Piper and Buddy the Elf.

This is the Christmas episode of the Happy Rent Podcast.

And Piper in the spirit of Christmas and Commerce,

we have a sponsor.

Why don't you tell us about who that is and what they're selling?

So you know what?

In the spirit of Christmas, our sponsor is really, it's not a product. It's an opportunity to be generous for our

I love it because our partner for this month is compassion international who for

most of our listeners are probably familiar. Compassion, their main thing is child sponsorships.

So they work with churches, organizations, Christian artists, a whole bunch of different folks,

like podcasts like us, to connect people in the church American believers to

children around the world who are in poverty who need sponsorship so

basically what they're asking for is you get paired with a child you actually get to select the child so especially if you're doing this with your kids

So I have two daughters who are almost 11 and 14 so I could go and find a little girl who's about their age so that they feel some sense of connection,

sign up to sponsor them. I could pick the area of the world if there's somewhere that I've been on a mission's trip or I know people there or there's some sort of

connection so you can kind of narrow it down to what it feels like a real

connection for your family you sign up to sponsor it's 38 dollars a month which I

know money can be tight for folks but I mean if you pay for like

YouTube TV or Hulu Live or Netflix or Amazon Prime, like you're already paying this much for a whole bunch of stuff.

So this is, it's a pretty affordable amount and what the child

will get out of that is medical checkups nutritious food health and hygiene

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