PH565 Light and Life Student Center

Church ministry Compassion began in the heart of one man moved by Korean War orphans in 1952. He knew he had to do something.

Reverend Everett Swanson was on a successful preaching tour in South Korea when he encountered the bitter poverty of Korea's unwanted children. Upon his return to the United States, Everett established a program that allowed caring people to provide food, shelter, education, medical care and Christian training for Korean orphans. That program was, and remains, the foundation and core of Compassion International. Today, Compassion helps more than 1 million children in 26 countries.