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I have no idea how to put this page together so please bear with me while I try to get it right in the next few days and weeks. My main purpose in this page is to promote my favorite charities and causes and to discuss books and ideas I have found to be of value in my life.

The title "Lift One More" is in reference to a Children International concept of current sponsors talking to and encouraging others to become sponsors. Thus they will "lift one more" child out of poverty. Children International is a Child Sponsorship organization headquartered in Kansas City, MO. They have projects in 10 foreign countries: Chile, Columbia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Mexico, the Philippines and Zambia. When we first decided to sponsor children back in 2003 we looked at several different organizations on their own websites and also on the Charity Navigator website. We were looking for a highly rated organization that had a good record of using its money well. One that had been around for a while and knew what it was doing. It was particularly important to me that the organization we chose not be proselytizing any religion. When you have the soup pot and all they have is hunger it seems an unfair time to say "Want to learn a neat new religion with your dinner?" Thus the choice was clear: Children International. Here's their website if you'd like to go check it out: http://www2.children.org

We currently sponsor 6 children and I will be adding more info about them and the program in days to come as well as info about other charities and organizations we have found worthy of our support. Great, so here I am proselytizing. Ah, but I have no unfair advantage over you, you are free to leave at any time. I would love to hear from you about your favorite charities. Perhaps some will become my favorites , too.