Every year we send hundreds of volunteers across land and ocean to visit their sponsored children. Many of the kids ask why. Why would someone fly all the way from America just to visit me?

I think that’s a picture of Advent in some ways. God visited us. Why would He give up heaven and come here just for me?

Because we matter to God.

And that is what our volunteers tell the children.

They matter. They matter to their sponsors, to people they’ve never met, and to the God they cannot see with their earthly eyes.

Our volunteer travelers are, quite literally, Jesus with skin on.