Mission Partners Update – May 2018 – Cross Catholic Outreach

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.” (John 6:35)

As a Cross Mission Partner, YOU help Cross Catholic Outreach fill empty stomachs and offer the Bread of Life to poor children and families across the developing world. Learn more about what an amazing difference YOU are making in Christ’s name!

THEY USED TO PRAY FOR FOOD

There was a time when the Salesian Sisters running Casa Hogar Copainala Home for Girls in Mexico were desperate because they had difficulty finding resources to purchase food for the children in their care. With no money to buy groceries, the nuns would gather the girls at the orphanage to pray in the chapel.

WITHOUT YOU, THEY WOULDN’T EVEN BE IN SCHOOL

Poor children in Guyana often go to school hungry. As a result, their learning suffers and they soon stop attending. But the St. Francis Xavier Parish in Charity is partnering with four local schools to provide schoolchildren a meal in the name of Christ with the help of parishioners who graciously volunteer their time.

NOMADS NO MORE

In Kenya’s Rift Valley, the Maasai tribe has been living a nomadic lifestyle for generations. Father John Fortune is evangelizing the Maasai through education and spiritual formation in the village of Ewuaso Kedong. Because of the school, both children and adults have been baptized into the Catholic faith.

LET THEM KNOW IT’S CHRISTMAS

Christmas may seem a long way off, but our Box of Joy program is already ramping up for 2018. We need mission partners like you to take part. Will you help get your parish or school, or just your family, involved? The program allows you to join members of your parish or school in packing and delivering personalized gifts to poor children who would otherwise receive nothing.

Through the generosity of Cross Catholic Outreach Mission Partners like you we working to change the world. As you put your compassion into action month after month, you further the work of priests, nuns and Catholic lay missionaries who are carrying out Pope Francis’ exhortation to be a “Church for the poor.”