Working day-in and day-out for a non-profit, I come across photos and stories that normally I would never see. Stories of families moving from small, makeshift shanties into sturdy concrete homes. Stories about children receiving food at school, and how...
Here is a wonderful opportunity for your worship team or choir to serve the poor in Jesus’ name. Cross International has partnered with grassroots Christian organizations located in some of the most impoverished areas of the world. We provide food to...
Here’s a story that proves otherwise: College students attending the Passion Conference in Fort Worth… exceeded the set goal and gave over $227,000 to fund a Bible translation project in the Western African nation of Mali. Currently, members of that particular...
Cross International is channeling support for Japan through our global partners that have relationships with Christian churches and ministries working in Japan. We typically rely on our trusted partners to direct our emergency aid in areas where Cross doesn’t...
CT interviewed Max Lucado about his book Outlive Your Life; You Were Made to Make a Difference, which includes this great exchange: What provoked your interest in poverty? About four years ago, a guy asked me what my great-grandchildren would...
From the Chronicle of Philanthropy: Richard Semmler, a mathematics professor at Northern Virginia Community College, in Annandale, works two additional jobs so he can earn enough money to give away half of his $100,000 income each year. In addition to...
Care for orphans is mercy at its most poignant, no doubt. But every act on behalf of the orphan also proclaims the Gospel, revealing to a watching world the heart of the God who “sets the lonely in families” (Psalm 68:5-6);...
“We Will Follow” from the LP “The Shelter”, which releases October 5. This is a band who gets it. We Will Follow by jarsofclay
According to a Red Cross disaster relief worker, the situation is both similar and different to the Haiti earthquake: I was in Haiti as part of the relief efforts in February of this year, and I do find some differences...
Very emotionally affecting song via YouTube (also below), cast as a message to the victims of the Haiti earthquake. To find out about progress in Haiti, go to CrossInternational.org/Haiti.