EMERGENCY RESPONSE:
Hurricane Gustav Makes Landfall in Haiti
UPDATE: IMMEDIATE HELP IS NEEDED IN HAITI. IMMEDIATE help is needed to purchase food for over 670 children. Click here to listen to interview with Pastor Marc Boisvert in Les Cayes, Haiti concerning the immediate need.
Click here to listen to interview with Pastor Marc Boisvert in Les Cayes, Haiti before and after Gustav
Developing much more quickly than expected, Hurricane Gustav slashed across the vulnerable southwestern
peninsula of
Haiti on Tuesday afternoon, leaving most of the area’s churches and mission programs with very little time to prepare for the high winds and driving rain. Cross International has been in contact with key partners in the area and is prepared to provide aid where needed. The main concern is the lack of food, which is expected to diminish with the flooding rain from Gustav. Many of the feeding programs and orphanages operating in this area have less than a week supply of rice and beans. Our goal, as always, is to direct aid to the poor through the Christian leadership in the area of need – in this case, Haiti. Cross International will channel aid through local churches and Christian ministries. This ensures rapid and effective response through people trusted by the community, people who know the community and are commited to care for those in need in the name of Jesus. With your support, we can get relief aid to those in need quickly and effectively.
To contribute to this emergency need, click here. God bless you!
KKHT Listeners Unite to Help African Orphans
The AIDS pandemic sweeping Sub-Saharan Africa has devastated millions of innocent children. Without a social safety net, young orphans are left to struggle on their own for food, clothing and shelter. They lack basic medical attention; and they often lose hope of finishing school. African churches and ministries are trying to care for these traumatized children, but the task is overwhelming without help. Fortunately, the KKHT 100.7 FM family of listeners in
Houston, Texas has partnered with Cross International to come alongside these compassionate African Christians so they can aid the many poor orphans in their own communities. Each gift of $68 will provide a needy orphan with a year’s supply of food, clothing, shelter, medical care, and education, in Christ’s name.
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WMCA Listeners Join with Cross to Aid African Orphans
More than 13 million children have lost parents due to the AIDS pandemic sweeping across sub-Saharan Africa-a number expected to double in less than five years! And countless children are abandoned by parents too poor or too sick to feed or care for them.
Unless they are rescued, defenseless orphaned children remain exposed to the evil of the streets, subject to exploitation and both physical and sexual abuse. With no source of income they are forced to beg, steal-or worse. They are likely to contract preventable infectious diseases; and they suffer severe malnutrition that wreaks havoc on their developing bodies and brains. Many orphans live in makeshift shanties built of garbage, exposed to the elements and to disease-carrying insects and rodents. And they are too destitute to hope for an education that could break them out of their poverty.
With the support of Cross International, local African churches and ministries rescue these poor children and provide them with loving care and hope. WMCA 570AM & 970AM listeners in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey are raising funds to help orphaned and other vulnerable children of Africa in Christ's name! Each gift of $68 will provide food, clothing, preventative medical care, school expenses, or meet other basic needs of a child-for an entire year.
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Featured Project: Togetherness In Christ Orphanage
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Haitian orphans have a safe haven at Togetherness In Christ, where they receive Christlike love and care.
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When 2-year-old Cadet was dropped off at Togetherness In Christ orphanage, painful black blisters covered his scrawny body, and he had a dangerously-high fever. Caregivers quickly sought medical attention and discovered that little Cadet had both typhoid and malaria. Plus, he was so malnourished his belly was distended from near-starvation.
That was December, 2005. Cadet is now much healthier and no longer hungry—though it will take a long time for his body to fully recover from the ravages of malnutrition. Today Cadet has not only made friends at the orphanage; he is also learning about the one Friend who will always be there for him; who will never, ever forsake him. READ MORE...
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Donate to Cross Through CFC! – Our CFC Number is 12291
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New Outreach Program launched to inspire, motivate U.S. churches, spiritual gatherings
The triumphs of the Church are rarely covered by the secular media, but every Christian should know that the power of God's love is both active and effective in missions of evangelism and mercy around the globe. With that in mind, Cross has launched a new Outreach program which helps churches and other Christian groups in the U.S. host an international mission speaker who can share these inspiring stories of faith, hope and charity with the "faith filled" of America. LEARN MORE...
Cross honored with membership by the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability:
The ECFA is committed to helping Christ-centered organizations earn the public's trust through developing and maintaining standards of accountability that convey God-honoring ethical practices. To learn more, log on to www.ecfa.org.
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