In an email we’ve just received from our partner CCT, which has sent a medical team to the Tacloban city evacuation centers, we’ve learned that the city’s vice mayor is actually a Christian pastor of a local church. What a blessing that a Cross International partner has been able to connect with a like-minded local […]
Restored
I just received this incredible story of restoration from Cross International’s ministry partner Kaibigan Ministry in the Philippines. Kaibigan means “friend” and that’s exactly what this holistic outreach is to the homeless street dwellers of metro-Manila. Just ask Joemar Fetiza: Joemar was born and raised in a rural province of the Philippines and, like so […]
From Street Life to Farm Life
We’ve received another great success story from Kaigiban Ministry, a Cross International ministry partner in the Philippines that’s transforming the lives of the homeless. Edwin Agcofra used to be the sort of man who instilled fear rather than friendliness. Seeing him, those who passed by would avert their eyes and pull their children close. Consumed […]
180-Degree Transformation
I was really fortunate to visit the Kaibigan (“Friend”) Ministry, a partner we support in the Philippines. This ministry transforms the lives of homeless “street dwellers” with a holistic, multi-phased, sustained program of intervention. The program brings them into mainstream society empowered with the skills and resources to be self supporting. It’s explicitly based on […]
A Heart Change
You’d never guess these men – well-groomed and fervently worshipping God together at a meeting of Cross International ministry partners in the Philippines – had once been homeless. You’d never guess some had spent their whole lives on the streets, begging and picking pockets. But now here they were, standing before us as living examples […]
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