Guardians of the Sea
Have you ever heard the word conservation? Basically, it’s a big word that means taking care of God’s creation. Conservation includes things like planting trees, picking up trash and caring for animals. It’s super important!
One of the most amazing parts of God’s creation is the ocean. Not only is it big and beautiful but it’s got tons of cool and important creatures living in it — like sea turtles!
Sadly, many sea turtles are in danger because of people. Turtles can get tangled up in fishing nets, and some people event hunt them for their eggs or shells. But Compassion kids in El Salvador are working hard to keep turtles safe!
The lord god took the man and put him in the garden of eden to work it and take care of it. - Genesis 2:15
TURTLE-y Amazing Creatures!
Not only are sea turtles extremely cute, but they also play a special part in keeping the ocean healthy. For example, sea turtles help take care of sea grass, which is where fish and other ocean animals live.
El Salvador is one of the countries in Central America where Compassion kids live. It’s beautiful there: Imagine green rainforests, huge volcanoes and amazing beaches!
There is one specific part of El Salvador called La Libertad coast where sea turtles are born. Every year between July and December, tons of sea turtles arrive on the beaches to lay their eggs. About 50 days after the eggs are laid, they hatch. Welcome to the world, baby sea turtles!
Sadly, it’s difficult for the eggs to survive on the beach. Sometimes the eggs get eaten by other animals or sold by humans. It’s also hard for the newly hatched baby turtles to make it to the ocean when there are hungry animals about who could snatch them up.
But this is where the Compassion kids come in!
The Compassion Conservation Crew
The Compassion centers in El Salvador realized that protecting sea turtles is a great way to care for God’s creation. Not only would it help save sea turtles from going extinct, but it’d help keep their local beaches healthy and clean! So they decided to build a conservation team of kids.
The local Compassion centers gathered 30 kids to join a program that helps save the sea turtles, which also helps the ocean. And since the ocean is such an important part of creation, this group of awesome kids is serving their friends, family, neighbors and God in a unique way!
Sea turtles like to munch on jellyfish. Yum!
Name That Turtle
Not too long ago, these ocean-saving Compassion kids took a trip to the local turtle sanctuary.
A turtle sanctuary is a place that protects baby sea turtles and the beaches they live on. Each kid got to name a turtle and care for it.
Gerardo, the manager of the turtle sanctuary, thinks it’s super important for kids to know about conservation.
“Children should know that when we preserve the [sea] turtle, we also preserve human life,” he says.
If you got to visit a turtle sanctuary, what would you name your turtle?
After every kid had named a turtle, they got to the best part of the whole day: releasing the safe, healthy babies into the ocean! Everyone cheered their turtles on as they made their journeys into the sea.
“I just loved the experience of coming and seeing the turtles, because they were very tiny, and it was nice to get them released. It was hard, but the turtle was able to get to the sea. She is free now to be in the water with many fish,” says 13-year-old Carlos.
So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. and God saw that it was good. — Genesis 1:21
Sun Sets West
Another caring Compassion kid, Ruben, named his turtle Sun.
“Getting into the sea, it wasn’t easy for her. In the end, the sea dragged her in and took its own way. When I saw Sun was in the sea, I felt happy, glad and joyful,” says Ruben.
Ruben was excited knowing that Sun will be able to come back to that beach in the future to lay her own eggs. And when she does, she’ll be helping the ocean stay healthy for other fish by bringing more turtles into the world!
When resting, sea turtles can stay underwater for up to two hours without coming up for air.
Love God, Love the Earth
The best thing Ruben, Carlos and all their friends learned on this special day was why they should help care for God’s creation. That’s what conservation is all about!
“It’s important to take care of the sea turtles because God created them. We have to take care of God’s creation and protect it from others who come and steal the turtles’ eggs to sell them,” says Ruben.
How many are your works, LORD! in wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. — Psalm 104:24
You Can Care Too!
Carlos puts it best: “Turtles are important because they are part of God’s creation.”
And so is everything else that’s part of God’s creation! The ocean. Trees. Bugs. And especially humans!
Conservation matters because it’s a great way for us humans to care for everything that God has given us. And that’s exactly what these Compassion kids are doing for the ocean!
If you're feeling inspired by these turtle-saving kids, think of some ways that you can care for god's creation!
TURTLE-y Amazing Creatures!
Not only are sea turtles extremely cute, but they also play a special part in keeping the ocean healthy. For example, sea turtles help take care of sea grass, which is where fish and other ocean animals live.
El Salvador is one of the countries in Central America where Compassion kids live. It’s beautiful there: Imagine green rainforests, huge volcanoes and amazing beaches!
There is one specific part of El Salvador called La Libertad coast where sea turtles are born. Every year between July and December, tons of sea turtles arrive on the beaches to lay their eggs. About 50 days after the eggs are laid, they hatch. Welcome to the world, baby sea turtles!
Sadly, it’s difficult for the eggs to survive on the beach. Sometimes the eggs get eaten by other animals or sold by humans. It’s also hard for the newly hatched baby turtles to make it to the ocean when there are hungry animals about who could snatch them up.
But this is where the Compassion kids come in!
The Compassion Conservation Crew
The Compassion centers in El Salvador realized that protecting sea turtles is a great way to care for God’s creation. Not only would it help save sea turtles from going extinct, but it’d help keep their local beaches healthy and clean! So they decided to build a conservation team of kids.
The local Compassion centers gathered 30 kids to join a program that helps save the sea turtles, which also helps the ocean. And since the ocean is such an important part of creation, this group of awesome kids is serving their friends, family, neighbors and God in a unique way!
Sea turtles like to munch on jellyfish. Yum!
Name That Turtle
Not too long ago, these ocean-saving Compassion kids took a trip to the local turtle sanctuary.
A turtle sanctuary is a place that protects baby sea turtles and the beaches they live on. Each kid got to name a turtle and care for it.
Gerardo, the manager of the turtle sanctuary, thinks it’s super important for kids to know about conservation.
“Children should know that when we preserve the [sea] turtle, we also preserve human life,” he says.
If you got to visit a turtle sanctuary, what would you name your turtle?
After every kid had named a turtle, they got to the best part of the whole day: releasing the safe, healthy babies into the ocean! Everyone cheered their turtles on as they made their journeys into the sea.
“I just loved the experience of coming and seeing the turtles, because they were very tiny, and it was nice to get them released. It was hard, but the turtle was able to get to the sea. She is free now to be in the water with many fish,” says 13-year-old Carlos.
So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. and God saw that it was good. — Genesis 1:21
Sun Sets West
Another caring Compassion kid, Ruben, named his turtle Sun.
“Getting into the sea, it wasn’t easy for her. In the end, the sea dragged her in and took its own way. When I saw Sun was in the sea, I felt happy, glad and joyful,” says Ruben.
Ruben was excited knowing that Sun will be able to come back to that beach in the future to lay her own eggs. And when she does, she’ll be helping the ocean stay healthy for other fish by bringing more turtles into the world!
When resting, sea turtles can stay underwater for up to two hours without coming up for air.
Love God, Love the Earth
The best thing Ruben, Carlos and all their friends learned on this special day was why they should help care for God’s creation. That’s what conservation is all about!
“It’s important to take care of the sea turtles because God created them. We have to take care of God’s creation and protect it from others who come and steal the turtles’ eggs to sell them,” says Ruben.
How many are your works, LORD! in wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. — Psalm 104:24
You Can Care Too!
Carlos puts it best: “Turtles are important because they are part of God’s creation.”
And so is everything else that’s part of God’s creation! The ocean. Trees. Bugs. And especially humans!
Conservation matters because it’s a great way for us humans to care for everything that God has given us. And that’s exactly what these Compassion kids are doing for the ocean!
If you're feeling inspired by these turtle-saving kids, think of some ways that you can care for god's creation!
TURTLE-y Amazing Creatures!
Not only are sea turtles extremely cute, but they also play a special part in keeping the ocean healthy. For example, sea turtles help take care of sea grass, which is where fish and other ocean animals live.
El Salvador is one of the countries in Central America where Compassion kids live. It’s beautiful there: Imagine green rainforests, huge volcanoes and amazing beaches!
There is one specific part of El Salvador called La Libertad coast where sea turtles are born. Every year between July and December, tons of sea turtles arrive on the beaches to lay their eggs. About 50 days after the eggs are laid, they hatch. Welcome to the world, baby sea turtles!
Sadly, it’s difficult for the eggs to survive on the beach. Sometimes the eggs get eaten by other animals or sold by humans. It’s also hard for the newly hatched baby turtles to make it to the ocean when there are hungry animals about who could snatch them up.
But this is where the Compassion kids come in!
The Compassion Conservation Crew
The Compassion centers in El Salvador realized that protecting sea turtles is a great way to care for God’s creation. Not only would it help save sea turtles from going extinct, but it’d help keep their local beaches healthy and clean! So they decided to build a conservation team of kids.
The local Compassion centers gathered 30 kids to join a program that helps save the sea turtles, which also helps the ocean. And since the ocean is such an important part of creation, this group of awesome kids is serving their friends, family, neighbors and God in a unique way!
Sea turtles like to munch on jellyfish. Yum!
Name That Turtle
Not too long ago, these ocean-saving Compassion kids took a trip to the local turtle sanctuary.
A turtle sanctuary is a place that protects baby sea turtles and the beaches they live on. Each kid got to name a turtle and care for it.
Gerardo, the manager of the turtle sanctuary, thinks it’s super important for kids to know about conservation.
“Children should know that when we preserve the [sea] turtle, we also preserve human life,” he says.
If you got to visit a turtle sanctuary, what would you name your turtle?
After every kid had named a turtle, they got to the best part of the whole day: releasing the safe, healthy babies into the ocean! Everyone cheered their turtles on as they made their journeys into the sea.
“I just loved the experience of coming and seeing the turtles, because they were very tiny, and it was nice to get them released. It was hard, but the turtle was able to get to the sea. She is free now to be in the water with many fish,” says 13-year-old Carlos.
So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. and God saw that it was good. — Genesis 1:21
Sun Sets West
Another caring Compassion kid, Ruben, named his turtle Sun.
“Getting into the sea, it wasn’t easy for her. In the end, the sea dragged her in and took its own way. When I saw Sun was in the sea, I felt happy, glad and joyful,” says Ruben.
Ruben was excited knowing that Sun will be able to come back to that beach in the future to lay her own eggs. And when she does, she’ll be helping the ocean stay healthy for other fish by bringing more turtles into the world!
When resting, sea turtles can stay underwater for up to two hours without coming up for air.
Love God, Love the Earth
The best thing Ruben, Carlos and all their friends learned on this special day was why they should help care for God’s creation. That’s what conservation is all about!
“It’s important to take care of the sea turtles because God created them. We have to take care of God’s creation and protect it from others who come and steal the turtles’ eggs to sell them,” says Ruben.
How many are your works, LORD! in wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. — Psalm 104:24
You Can Care Too!
Carlos puts it best: “Turtles are important because they are part of God’s creation.”
And so is everything else that’s part of God’s creation! The ocean. Trees. Bugs. And especially humans!
Conservation matters because it’s a great way for us humans to care for everything that God has given us. And that’s exactly what these Compassion kids are doing for the ocean!