Posts Tagged With: education
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
The Impact of Education
Proverbs 22:6 offers this advice: “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” This verse offers some Godly insight into just how impactful education can be in the life of a child. At Cross, we see that impact every day as we … Continue reading
Post Labor Day: Back to School, Back to Business
For some Americans, post-Labor Day means “back to school,” which can be exciting or stressful or both. Kids or no, the holiday marks the time to get back to business. Turn over a new leaf. Make a fresh start. Take the next level. To families in developing countries, however, back to school might as well … Continue reading
Fighting Poverty with Education
If there was ever a place in Haiti that needs help, it’s Gonaives. Far from the city life of Port-au-Prince and the beauty of Haiti’s tropical mountain ranges lays a barren desert on the northwestern coast. The landscape looks like the moon: white, empty, flat, and dusty. The city of Gonaives, which is home to … Continue reading
Receive, and you shall Give
Grace Ministries Mission evangelical church has a new leader with a big heart, and big plans, for the poor. Recently, Cross staff met up with Bishop Stanley Simunyola in Lusaka, Zambia, where he told us about the roots of his passion: a Christian teacher from his childhood. As a boy growing up in poverty, Stanley … Continue reading
Give a Fish or Teach to Fish?
There is an old saying that goes: “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” The second part of that saying is the goal of much of the work we do to help the poor here at Cross. However, … Continue reading
Child mortality on the rise
First the good news: ten African countries are only half as poor as they were two decades ago. Now the bad news: child mortality rates have actually gone up, rather than down, in six sub-Saharan nations. Sub-Saharan Africa holds the unfortunate distinction of being the only region in the world that has seen an increase … Continue reading
