Some Facts

According to UNICEF, 22,000 children die each day due to poverty. And they “die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world. Being meek and weak in life makes these dying multitudes even more invisible in death.”

Human Trafficking

- An estimated 2.5 million people are in forced labour (including sexual exploitation) at any given time
as a result of trafficking

- The majority of trafficking victims are between 18 and 24 years of age

- An estimated 1.2 million children are trafficked each year


Water and Sanitation

- Some 1.1 billion people in developing countries have inadequate access to water, and 2.6 billion lack basic sanitation

- Some 1.8 million child deaths each year as a result of diarrhoea

- 1.4 million die each year from lack of access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation

- 2.2 million children die each year because they are not immunized


Hunger

- Every day, almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes. That's one child every five seconds
 

- One out of every eight children under the age of twelve in the U.S. goes to bed hungry every night

- Half of all children under five years of age in South Asia and one third of those in sub-Saharan Africa are malnourished

 
 

At Crossroads Church, we believe in missions. We believe that we are called both as a church and as individuals to “make disciples of all nations” Matt 28:19, and that the most effective way to do this is by showing God’s love. We believe that we are to "Speak out for those who cannot speak, for the rights of all the destitute. Speak out, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy". Proverbs 31:8-9, and so we choose to see the lonely, the poor, the sick and the hurting and we choose to respond. We believe that the the same Spirit that enabled Christ to say, "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because He has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed." Luke 4:18, is on us and will, by His grace, enable us to do the same.