Compassion Meets Hollywood!

We are huge fans of Compassion in this house and as it turns out, we are in great company!  At a large leadership conference last year, the new CEO of Compassion had the chance to meet and interview none other than the great Hollywood TV producer Mark Burnett (producer of Survivor, The Apprentice, The Voice, Shark Tank, and The Sing Off) and his wife Roma Downey (creator of The Bible, the amazing miniseries which aired on TV earlier this year).  Jimmy Mellado (Compassion CEO) was able to tell them all about Compassion and their mission to bring the heart of Jesus to the children while at the same time lifting them out of poverty.  Mark and Roma were all ears and have since fallen in love with the work Compassion is doing all over the world.  The Lord has laid it on their hearts to embrace Compassion and it's mission fully and they are now getting the word out there in a way Compassion has never seen before!

This coming Friday, February 28th, 2014, their newest work, Son of God, will be released in theaters all over this great country (please see the official movie trailer below)!  I am so excited for this movie and for so many people to get to know the Jesus of the Bible!  But there is more!  At the end of movie Mark and Roma are going to give a promo for Compassion, telling of their mission and asking people to pray and consider going to the website to sponsor a child!  This is such great news for these poverty stricken children and for Compassion's mission!  This will be exposure on a level Compassion has never seen before!

But there's a problem!  It just so happens that my husband now has his dream job working in the IT department at this great organization and they could use our prayers.  Their team has been working literally night and day for 2 weeks trying to make sure that their web servers will carry a load larger than it was ever intended to carry (after all, who knew they'd be getting this kind of national exposure!?!), but a load that we pray and expect they will get from people interested in sponsoring a child after Mark and Roma so kindly give their promotion of Compassion at the end of the movie.  However, there is currently some sort of glitch with the web servers that they, as a team, cannot seem to figure out and the servers are currently crashing at random (and of course, people can't sponsor kids if they can't get on the website).  This small team is exhausted but committed.  They are is still working night and day and will continue to do so until the time that they can locate and fix the problem.  But please, we need people to pray that our Lord will either help them to locate the problem before the Son of God opening night this Friday or even that He will just somehow miraculously sustain the servers in some way through the influx of hits we pray it will get in the coming weeks.  We would sure appreciate your prayers!  And please don't forget to watch the movie trailer below!  It's going to to be AWEsome in the truest sense of the word!

PRAISE UPDATE:  2/27/14 (day before movie premiers) They have finally located the problem and have apparently been able to fix it!!!  May not seem like much but this is HUGE for Compassion and especially for the little people who need their/our help!  Thank you Jesus!!!