Meet Stephen and Patricia
We have been married for 19 years and have 3 beautiful daughters. We love Jesus, traveling, music, fancy dinners, ministry and people. We met in Bellingham, Washington during college when we were both working at Firwood (a Christian youth camp). We got married in 1991 and then we honeymooned in Vegas (it was cheap at the time and we were poor). Stephen works for Compassion International as the Creative Relationship Director and Patricia leads trips for Compassion and also works in Vancouver, WA for Support for Early Learning and Families. 
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Hey gang! This is fun to read. I gotta get my kids on here so they can meet your kids. Take care! See ya soon!
Patricia does not suck at all math above the 5th grade level. She just thinks she does & gets stressed about it. Don’t let her off the hook, Stephen. I know this from experience with POs and budgets that made pretty good sense.
Patricia,
I cannot wait to meet you! Anyone who not only wears a balloon headdress, but posts a piccha on the interweb for all to see? I’m crushin’ already.
Thank you for your words of encouragement to your readers, asking them to pray for the Compassion-India team. I fall into the camp of never having seen “this” before…and I’m writing about it even as I comment (popped over here to pick up a picture of you
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To see God’s hand already in the midst of this trip is reassuring; He’s merciful to extend that comfort
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I feel blessed to know both of you and your lovely children. Your relationship and family life are and inspiration. I am glad you started this blog so we all have the opportunity to learn and grow from your experiences.
hello to you and steve hope you are having fun im keeping track of your trip
and the pic’s are cool keep sending then your friend david slagh
Hi Patricia,
I thank Meg for sharing this site with meYou have truely blessed your girls by giving them this experience. God bless you and your family. I pray that Meg will be humbled by this experience you are giving your children!
Gail
I God for you beatful family,its my prayer that the lord has kept you safe.We arrived home safely that day,you child Hannah was so happy,infact i can bet that this day shall remain forever in her mind ,you are great people.you motived me and i now have afilling that i must sponsor a kid in jesus name.
I feel like a child saying this, but,”I want to be your friend!”…..Love your blog and what its about. Love your family and your 3 beautiful girls. And love that you and your husband have this ministry together……I will be praying for all of you on your trip to India–first learned about it from Bring The Rain…..I have just started my blog and the best surprise about blogging is that I have come across so many wonderful women who love the Lord, and life, and on and on…..Blessings for a safe trip as you carry His love to India…Cate Tuten
Cate,
Thank you so much for praying for me and the blog team while we are in India. I am meeting so many wonderful people through the blog. What a great community!!!
Stephen and Patricia: I see that you are on a road trip, but when you get back perhaps we can connect. Marcy (Spencer) McKey.
Patricia, I am also a Compassion advocate and your recent post on I understand was absolutely so true and I was wondering if I could have permission to share this in our church newsletter. I write something monthly but would love to be able to share from someone else’s perspective and comments? Let me know. thank you and God Bless your continued journey both sides of Heaven.
Patti,
Please feel free to use my post!
Patricia
Hi~I’m Jenny from Taiwan. I miss you guys very much! I am hoping that we can meet some day^^
Bless you.
you guys thanks so much for the good work. iam a former compassion child but now an advocate for children living in poverty am married with 4 children..gues what we married with my husband in january 2008, God gave us twins in november same year and again 2010 april we got another set of twins and we called it a day..God is great.
am so happy to hear about your great work with compassion me and my husband we were sponsered children in the same project and thats were we met..but today God is using us in our country. we do missions at home, to the youth, local pastors and village as well. God has been so good. we want to assure you that we are what we are because of compassion..so keep it up. we are a living testimony.
got to go my babies are crying.
jackie.
Wow Jackie, Thanks for your comment and what a privilege to hear from you. I have seen your story and video. You have impacted the lives of many with you amazing testimony. I hope my blog readers can see that Compassion does what it says!
Thanks for sharing!