A New Year for CRWRC

CRWRC Newsroom | January 13, 2010

It’s 2010!

Like you, CRWRC was in some ways glad to turn the page on 2009. Last year’s economic adjustment impacted CRWRC’s budget just as it has affected millions of people across North America. 

Yet we have much to be thankful for.  Community development and disaster response efforts continued throughout 2009, aiding thousands of men, women, and children. And staff and partners are currently gearing up to aid the thousands affected by Haiti's 7.0 earthquake.

While 2009 is over, the impact of the financial situation is not. Through much effort, CRWRC has maintained its level of ministry in spite of the financial challenges of last year by:

At the end of December 2009, CRWRC also eliminated more than 15 staff positions. These are painful measures. Yet by implementing them CRWRC gets closer to its goal of not cutting life changing programming.

As we enter this new year we ask for your prayers--for CRWRC staff and the thousands of people we assist. 

In spite of the measures listed above CRWRC is still $2.2 million behind goal for this fiscal year. Please pray that God will provide for CRWRC’s continuing ministries. Pray for the men and women striving to escape poverty and recover from disasters through CRWRC and other relief organizations. 

The prayers and financial support of people like you enable CRWRC to shine the light of Christ into the darkness of poverty and destruction of disasters. 

Please consider a new year's gift to CRWRC... 
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CRWRC wants to continue to help people like Maxwell Lamison, a subsistence farmer who lives in Benga, Mozambique. 

Maxwell and his wife have nine children to feed and clothe, and like many people who live on less than a dollar a day, the family goes without during “the hungry months.” Annually, these are the months between December and February; imagine yourself a parent with no food or prospects of earning income to get food until March!)

By learning to “Farm God’s Way” through CRWRC, Baxwell began with great delight, to increase the produce from his small plot of land by using conservation farming techniques. He built two granaries to store sufficient food to feed his family through the next harvest in May 2010. 

Just as importantly, Baxwell has hope not only of having sufficient food this year, but also hope for a better future for his children. 

Story is from Istafanus Gimba, Mozambique, December 2009