The Power of Giving Back with Norah Birungi

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Jesus' birthday is just around the corner. What if we were to ask Him what He wanted for His birthday? It's a powerful question we asked in our family that led us to the heartwarming story of Norah Birungi.

As families seeking to live on purpose, this episode is a story about the generational and transformative power of what happens when we give back to God what He gives to us. In this episode, Norah shares how the gifts of another family when she was a child helped her to become the wife, mom, and woman of God she is today. We also share how stories like Norah's inspired our family to give back this Christmas.

Show Notes:

To join us in sponsoring a child with Compassion International this Christmas, text the word FAMOUS to 83393 to receive the profile of a child in need of a sponsor.

Or to choose a child as a family, visit www.compassion.com/famousathome

Let's join together to invest in the next generation of families who will be famous at home.

Transcript

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0:01.0	You are listening to the Famous At Home Podcast with Dr. Josh and Christy Straub.
0:06.8	Because when it's all said and done, we all want to know that we were famous at home.
0:15.7	Welcome back to the Famous at Home podcast.
0:17.1	You know, one of the activities that we're doing this year and one of the ways we're investing in our family this year is we're going through the activities of the 25 days of the Christmas story.
0:26.6	And as we do that, there's one particular activity in the book where it asks us to look at Jesus's birthday in such a way like we were looking at it if it were our
0:39.1	childs. So for example, you know, you might ask your child ahead of time, what is your
0:44.9	birthday list? Like, what do you want for your birthday? What if we were to flip that and we were
0:49.2	to ask Jesus, what do you want for your birthday? Like, that is like, for me, it's mind-blowing because I don't know that I've ever taken a step back and actually at Christmas time because we're thinking about what are we receiving, you know, what Christmas gifts are we getting for our family?
1:04.3	But to genuinely ask Jesus, it's your birthday, what gifts would you want?
1:08.6	And one of the ways that we're doing that this year as a family is we are
1:12.7	giving back by sponsoring a child from Compassion International. And it has been just a beautiful,
1:19.3	sweet thing for our family to sit down and interact and write letters and send Christmas gifts
1:23.6	to our child. And today's interview is one of those interviews that will really touch
1:29.3	your heart. Nora Burungi is joining us today. She herself was sponsored by compassion. A family
1:38.6	invested in her, loved her well, sent her beautiful letters. I can't wait for you to hear this
1:43.9	story.
1:45.4	And more than that, today, she is a wife, she's a mom, she lives in the United States today,
1:51.9	and is just a thriving family, being famous at home like all of us are trying to do,
1:59.6	and it was because someone invested in her life.
2:03.0	And so we just thought, man, what a great opportunity to have her on, just with all the chaos
2:08.3	in the world, to have an encouraging story of ways that we in our families can give back
2:13.8	this Christmas for Jesus' birthday and to celebrate his birth on this earth.
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