Bringing Richard in From the Cold
On an average winter day in the Twin Cities, the highest temperature doesn’t even rise to “freezing.” Lack of employment or stable housing can tempt one to despair. But put them together, and add bone-chilling air, and you get a heavy dose of hopelessness. Not only was life in and out of shelters embittering and […]
Food for One Day … Hope for a Lifetime
Thanksgiving was just around the corner, and Pastor Lee Harris was thinking about who might need a Box of Love® and an opportunity to hear the gospel. Pastor Lee serves Mount Olive Primitive Baptist Church, a partner of Cru® Inner City in Jacksonville, Florida. One day, while on a walk in the neighborhood, Pastor Lee […]
Tools for the Kingdom
Each summer, friends like you provide tools to build the kingdom. One of these tools, backpacks filled with school supplies, is called PowerPacks®. PowerPacks are used by church partners to build relationships and offer hope in Christ. In August, volunteers in Los Angeles packed 700 PowerPacks, for partners to distribute to kids in need of […]
A Chance to Know Him
“To see the looks and expressions on the children’s faces was amazing,” shared Ms. Thomas of Broken Chain Ministries after their Easter Bag outreach. Broken Chain is a partner ministry of Cru®. After Pastor Adams preached the true meaning of Easter, Ms. Thomas and Pastor Sarah passed out the bags filled with candy, fruit snacks, […]
Caring for the Least of These
I was walking out of the Agape Center Saturday morning, laden with trays of mail when the doorbell rang. It was William — our homeless friend. Sam, a fellow Agape Center staff member, makes bags of food to leave at the front desk for William each day. But today, there weren’t any left, so I […]
To Get Off These Streets
Even though Georgia has few days of freezing temperatures each winter, when you live on the streets, cold is cold. Each winter, the inner-city ministry of Cru® assembles thousands of Homeless Care Kits for our church partners to distribute to people in desperate circumstances. Each kit has a blanket, gloves, warm socks, a scarf, a […]
Giving Help and Hope
On an average winter day in the Twin Cities, the highest temperature doesn’t even rise to “freezing.” Lack of employment or stable housing can tempt one to despair. But put them together, and add bone-chilling air, and you get a heavy dose of hopelessness. Not only was life in and out of shelters embittering and […]
Not Even a Felony
Each November, in preparation for the Boxes of Love® outreach, many of the churches that share a partnership with Cru® hold evangelism trainings to equip their volunteer teams for gospel conversations during the outreach. Such was true of one church in the heart of Chicago. After the training, everyone dispersed in pairs to share the […]
Happy About Giving
It was that time of year again: churches and ministries — that you serve through your partnership with Cru® Inner City — were preparing to deliver Boxes of Love® to families in need. Volunteers had packed up turkeys and all the fixings to feed a family of six, including materials that tell about the love […]
Raising Up Young Men
In April, five hundred volunteers came to the warehouse in Minneapolis to help pack Easter Bags, an outreach tool used by our church partners. Among the volunteers was Jacques. Jacques grew up in a broken home in East St. Paul. He became acquainted with the inner-city ministry of Cru® more than half a decade ago […]