Posts Tagged With: education
Helping Haitians Help Themselves
In a show of support for MUCH Ministries’ self-help program for poor families in Jubilee, Haiti, Cross ordered a shipment of 5,000 journals from their trade school, where local Haitians have been learning to make various items by hand so they can earn a small income. The ministry responded with this email: Dear Cross, I … Continue reading
Dreaming Big through Education
We often write about the value of education in the struggle against poverty. But I think the message is more compelling when it comes from the mouths of the Christian missionaries who are actually working with the children of the poor on a daily basis in Cross-sponsored schools. Here is a letter from a staff … Continue reading
New World, New Life
We recently received an update from our partner Teresa Susong, founder of FACES: New World Christian School on the outskirts of Quito, Ecuador. Cross International currently supports 35 of their students, who are child laborers from indigenous Quichua Indian mountain communities. New World School offers night classes so these students are able to work during … Continue reading
Gospel Focus
Our intrepid spies crossed the Bolivian border to get front-line news from Major Sixto Ali, commander of the Altiplano Division of the Army… …That is, The Salvation Army. Sixto’s strategic plan for the William Booth Evangelical School and Hogar Remedios Assin orphanage in Villa Cosmos (both of which are supported by Cross) can be summed … Continue reading
From Haiti with Thanks
Here’s a letter, translated into English from Creole, that was handwritten by a Haitian boy who attends a Cross-sponsored Calvary Baptist Church (CBC) school: I am a student at Foye Divine. My name is David. I am the third child of my mother and father. I am 14 years old and I’m in sixth grade. … Continue reading
Reptile Surprise
Here’s a delightful excerpt from a letter we received from our ministry partner Annie Chikhwaza, who runs Kondanani Children’s Village in Malawi: Good news for Kondanani! Our laboratory is ready. The children love it but…..the other day there was a real bad smell in the school area. At first we thought the gardener had put … Continue reading
Poor Parents Beat Back-to-School Blues
When I was a young single mom, the month of August was always a struggle. That’s when I had to get my kid school supplies. I couldn’t afford to get her a whole new wardrobe like some of her schoolmates got because my salary hovered around the U.S. poverty line at the time. But somehow … Continue reading
“Whatever you ask in my name…”
The large brick building you see in the photo is Elohim Evangelical School. Inside those walls, our Cross partners are providing a Christian education and daily nutritious meals to 132 poor Peruvian children. This rear-view of the facility did not seem particularly captivating until a volunteer explained that the dilapidated shack in the foreground … Continue reading
Vision from the slums
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.” The famous KJV translation of Proverbs 29:18 may invoke nausea as often as inspiration, because so many leaders misapply it to promote their personal agendas. But as I search for godly wisdom to make sense of my recent visit to the slums of Peru, the first verse … Continue reading
A woman’s enduring faith
“It’s not money that makes you rich; it’s the power of God and love in your heart.” This advice was more than a mere platitude coming from Sedillia Guerrier, a 63-year-old woman who knows firsthand the sting of poverty and the miraculous power of God. When the Haiti earthquake struck, Sedillia’s house collapsed with her … Continue reading
