Cross Catholic Outreach’s strategy of working through local parish-based ministries serves two purposes: it effectively provides for the material needs of the poor in a loving way and it shows them the hope that can only be found in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Their greatest need of all can only be met by the Holy Spirit changing them from within. It’s not possible to purchase a person’s salvation like one might purchase a bowl of rice, but we can provide exposure to the Gospel by putting orphans in Catholic shelters, providing scholarships for Catholic schools and by sending priests, nuns and lay missionaries into the homes and villages to preach by word and deed.
