When urgent needs arise, your faithful giving empowers Cross Catholic Outreach to respond — bringing the hope and light of Christ to provide help wherever it is needed most. Your monthly giving allows us great flexibility, from blessing hungry families with nutritious food to changing entire communities with access to clean water.
Safe Homes through the Housing Program in Haiti
Your generosity is helping to provide hope and strengthen families like that of Emma and Thelius. They are a hardworking couple, who earned a small income by farming and selling food products.
Like most of their neighbors, they don’t make enough money to afford a home beyond the dilapidated mud-and-stick structure where they lived for many years. Raising eight children in this small home was challenging enough, but they also faced additional hardships every time it rained. Water would pour in, ruining their belongings and making them sick.
“Sometimes mud falls on the children’s heads,” Emma explained.
In an answer to prayer, our partner, the Kobonal Haiti Mission, has been able to work on building a new home for this family.
Food Security through the Agriculture Program in Zambia
Meet Doreen. The support your gift supplied has been nothing short of a godsend for people like her.
To feed their five children, Doreen and her husband used to spend a lot of their limited income on fertilizers and pesticides in an attempt to produce high yields. Now, the program has lifted that burden completely — providing the resources Doreen needed and teaching her more cost-effective and organic methods for protecting her crops.
For example, she now makes her own pest deterrents using local ingredients such as chili peppers. As a result, she has projected a significant improvement in her profit margins and already plans to diversify her business by growing an even wider range of vegetables.
“In reviewing the various activities and mission of Cross Catholic Outreach, I am reminded of Pope Francis’ words in his 2013 Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium (“The Joy of the Gospel”): This is why I want a Church which is poor and for the poor. They have much to teach us … We need to let ourselves be evangelized by them.”
Archbishop Thompson endorsed Cross Catholic Outreach as Archbishop of Indianapolis in 2018.
» Watch interviews from board members and endorsing bishops here.
Cross Mission Partners proclaim the Gospel of Christ by empowering priests, sisters and lay workers to serve the poor. Every dollar you give helps us do more for our brothers and sisters throughout the world. Take a look at our Project Catalog to learn more about how to serve the poor in vulnerable in over 30 countries.
We consider every gift we receive a precious resource from God. We direct every donation to its intended project, provide honest and accurate reports to our donors, and keep overhead costs to an industry low. We handle funds with utmost integrity and hold our ministry partners in the field to the same high standards by asking them to document costs and the impact of their outreach.
Rather than create new institutions to distribute aid, we support existing ministries and churches already serving the poor. In addition to being the most cost-effective way of helping the poor, empowering these ministries allows us to support the Church’s spiritual mission and its important position of leadership in poor communities.
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