The Candace Cameron Bure Podcast
Could Writing a Letter Change Your Life?? I CCB Podcast Special Series - Jonathan's Story Part 6
20 Mar 2025
When is the last time you thought about how powerful writing a letter could be? In part six of Jonathan’s story, Candace and Jonathan talk about the powerful impact of a relationship that grew from letter writing. Jonathan shares more about growing up in poverty and how he got support from a local church and his sponsor Jamie. He recalls the first letter she sent, a simple note that made him feel special and loved: "Good afternoon, Jonathan. I wanted to send you a little note to let you know I was thinking about you." That simple message meant so much to him, especially since he never those words of encouragement from his father. Come back each week to hear more about Jonathan’s story. To see how we can make a difference together, go to https://ccbpodcast.com/compassion Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Well, again, I didn't know at the moment Compassion was involved on the service that this local church was giving me. The only thing I knew was a local church in my community serving me through the week. That's the only thing I knew. But then I am receiving these letters from someone that I was supposed to call sponsor. Which was really weird for me.
There were moments that I was thinking, are these letters coming through some bear or something?
Right. A little stork is dropping them off and bringing them in a basket.
Because we don't have a good letter system in the DR. Got it.
Right. So you're going to this church. The church is helping you. The church is providing the food, the clothes, essentially, the things you need for school, even...
maybe things for home too like soap and shampoo or um but you have now these letters coming in from a person that's your sponsor and you don't quite know how this all fits in like who's this weird person i'm getting letters from because it's the the church itself that's in your local area that's helping you exactly so tell me about like the first letter you received or
This is an example. Okay. And the reason I want to share this is just one paragraph. Very small. Typed. Typed on a typewriter. So this letter came in the 90s. So I got into the program in 1997. Okay. So maybe 1999.
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