People
Interests
Activities
Project Participation
Special Events
Spiritual Growth
Personal Growth
Environment
Education
Future Plans
Country/Culture
Prayer Requests
PEOPLE
Other Household Members (persons living in the same home as your child)
- What are the names of the persons who live in the same home as your child?
- What is their relationship to your child?
Parents
- What are the names of your child's parents?
- If one or both of the parents does/do not live with your child, where do they live and what do they do?
Guardians (persons primarily responsible for child's well-being)
- What are the names of your child's guardians?
- What is their relationship to your child?
- What are the occupations of your child's guardians? Ask your child to describe them.
Brothers/Sisters
- What are the names and ages of your child's brothers and sisters?
- If any of your child's brothers and/or sisters do not live with your child, where do they live and what do they do?
Other Relatives (not living in the same home as your child)
- What other relatives does your child have who do not live in his/her home?
- What are their names?
- What is their relationship to your child?
- Where do they live?
Friends
- What are the names and ages of your child's closest friends?
- What does your child like most about each of their close friends?
- What does your child enjoy doing with his/her friends?
- What common interests do your child and his/her friends have?
Project Staff/Church Leaders
- What project staff/church leaders does your child most appreciate?
INTERESTS
- What kind of hobbies does your child have? Ask your child to describe them.
- What kinds of games does your child enjoy playing? Ask your child to describe them.
- What are the popular sports in your child's area?
- What sports does your child play?
- What is your child's favorite color?
- What are your child's favorite foods? Why? Ask your child to describe them.
- What are your child's favorite books? Why?
- What are your child's favorite songs? Why?
- What are your child's favorite places to go? Why?
- Who are your child's favorite celebrities? Why?
- Does your child have any pets? If so, what kind of animals are they and what are their names?
ACTIVITIES
Ask your child to describe a typical day.
- When does he/she awake in the morning?
- What is the chronology of events for your child throughout the day?
- When does your child have meals and what kind of meals are they? Ask your child to describe them. Are they served hot or cold?
- When does your child go to bed at night?
Work
- What kinds of chores does your child do?
- Does your child work outside the home? If so, what kind of work is it and how often is it done? Ask your child to describe it.
PARTICIPATION AT COMPASSION PROJECT
General
- How often does your child attend the project?
- How does your child travel to the project?
- How long does it take your child to travel between the project and his/her home?
- What things does your child do at the project? Ask your child to describe them.
- What is your child learning about at the project?
Field Trips (special activity away from the project)
- Who went on the field trip?
- Where did they go?
- How did they get there?
- What did they see?
- What did they do?
SPECIAL EVENTS
Holidays
- What are the national holidays in your child's country and when are they?
- How are national holidays typically celebrated in your child's country?
- Which national holidays does your child's family observe? How?
- How is Christmas typically celebrated in your child's country?
- Do your child and his/her family celebrate Christmas? If so, how?
- How is Easter typically celebrated in your child's country?
- Do your child and his/her family celebrate Easter? If so, how?
Birthdays
- Are birthdays celebrated in your child's country? If so, how?
- How did your child celebrate his/her last birthday? Ask your child to describe it.
Other Cultural Events
- Are there other cultural events your child participates in? If so, describe.
Special Trips (visit with relatives, etc.)
- Where did your child go?
- Who went with your child?
- How did your child and his/her companions get to the destination?
- How long were they there?
- Who did they see?
- What did they do?
- What was your child's favorite part of the trip?
SPIRITUAL GROWTH
- Has your child had a conversion experience? If so, when? Ask your child to describe it.
- Has your child been baptized? If so, when? Ask your child to describe it.
- Does your child have some favorite Bible verses? If so, what are they?
- Does your child have some favorite Bible characters? If so, who are they and why are they favorites?
PERSONAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
- How tall is your child?
- How much does your child weigh?
ENVIRONMENT
- What is the climate where your child lives (dry, rainy, average temperatures, etc.)?
- What are the seasons of the year where your child lives? Ask your child to describe them.
- What kind of terrain is your child's home located in?
- What kind of plants grow near your child's home?
- What is your child's favorite kind of plant?
- What kinds of animals live near your child's home?
- What is your child's favorite animal?
EDUCATION
- If your child is currently in school, what is he/she studying?
- What math skills is your child learning?
- What books is your child reading either by himself/herself or with assistance from someone else?
- If your child recently took an exam, what subject did the exam cover? What score did he/she receive?
- What is your child's favorite subject in school? Why?
- How far is it from your child's home to the school?
- What is the weekly school schedule? What days of the week does the school meet? What hours of the day does the school operate?
FUTURE PLANS
- Is your child interested in continuing his/her formal education beyond secondary school? If so, what field(s) does your child want to study?
- If your child could choose any career as an adult, what would it be?
- Does your child want to get married some day?
- Does your child want to have a family some day?
- What other goals and aspirations does your child have? Ask your child to explain them.
COUNTRY/CULTURE
- What are the common means of transportation in your child's country? Ask your child to describe them.
- What are the natural resources in your child's country? Ask your child to describe them.
- What does the national flag for your child's country look like? Ask your child to draw and color it.
- What is the national anthem for your child's country?
PRAYER REQUESTS
Encourage your child to share prayer requests with you. Examples of appropriate prayer requests include:
- Physical needs of child or person close to child
- Employment needs of person close to child
- Spiritual needs of child or person close to child
- Child's success in academic (exams) or athletic contests, etc.
