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PARTNERING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE

CRforCW is a nonprofit 501(c)3 corporation, founded in 2009, whose mission is to bring positive change to less fortunate individuals throughout the world. Over the years, we have worked with great organizations like Rotary, Rotary International, World Vision, Hands to Honduras, Living Water International and Engineers without Border, just to name a few. We have seen the successful completion of projects that have found, distributed, cleaned or stored water for indigenous people of 5 different countries. NOW, we are focusing our efforts towards the First Nations of North America, primarily the children and young adults of our Native American population who exist in an environment of extreme “high risk”.

These children are living in areas of unbelievable economic and spiritual poverty, where suicides rates between the ages of 15 and 24 are 3 times the national average, and is the second leading cause of death. Percentages of Native American youth affected by addiction, alcoholism, domestic violence, disease and poverty is truly astounding. These are not the facts about children and young people in ANOTHER COUNTRY – these are the facts right HERE IN OUR COUNTRY!

Bringing positive change & love to Native American communities

CRforCW has an amazing opportunity to provide resources to Native American communities in South Dakota and in the neighboring areas of Northern Nebraska. Several of our Board of Directors are now actually residing in these locales, allowing us huge access to these communities and great accountability to our partners and donors. One of the founding precepts of CRforCW has always been to guarantee donors that every penny of their dollar is going exactly where we as a nonprofit corporation have designated. One of the ways we guarantee total transparency is to always have local partners with any project who will be 100% accountable to CRforCW – providing project data, invoices, accounting, pictures, emails, phone calls and videos. Now, we will be blessed with members of our own Board of Directors permanently in the area, with our goal to establish locality and provide a base of operations to consolidate resources for more effective assistance. This is a key element towards our drive to bring into focus more specific goals, one of which is to further educate, motivate and enlarge our network of “friends” or what we refer to as our fellow “warriors”.

Our summer art program was a huge success! Special thanks to Carole Lantz, from Eaton, Ohio, who is our talented artist and teacher for this program, and Cyndi Crawford of CRforCW who assisted and helped pull this event together. We are with Edison Red Nest and his organization, Native Futures. Twenty-one kids and lots of adults showed up. We were very worried about participation because this is something new, but thank you for your prayers, as you can see we have about as many that can fit into the Native Futures’ office!

Welch Street Ministry

My name is Robert Welch and I grew up in the hills of North Alabama. I knew the Lord as a young man and I believe He put a calling on my life for service in His kingdom. As I got older, I got busy with life and I allowed those distractions to lead me into a lukewarm spiritual state. However, God knew the desires of my heart and took me through a very painful time to chasten me, remove the dross from my life, bring me back to Himself and set me on fire for His kingdom. During this time, He gave me a heart for people in difficult situations, such as homeless, destitute, addicted, and the persecuted church around the world.

The Lord gave me this calling from Isaiah 61:1-2:

“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to reclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all him mourn, to console those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified.”

He planted me right here in Bulverde Texas about 15 minutes north of San Antonio. As I have turned my life over to His plan, He is opening doors of opportunity to reach people with the gospel. I work with homeless people in San Antonio, in drug infested areas of the city, to pray for them, bring them off the streets, and disciple them in a growing relationship with Jesus Christ. Over the last few years, I have built long term relationships with Floyd, Nina, Maria, John and others through my street ministry. I also have the privilege of taking one evening a week and spending time with about 50 Afghan refugee children. I play soccer with these children and am building relationships to teach them and more importantly, show them our Heavenly Fathers love.

The Lord allowed me to rent a 3000 square-foot building for my shop where I sell reclaimed wood and furniture. Inside we have prayer meetings, Discipleship, and a Friday night fellowship meal where the public is welcome to attend. We eat, spend time in praise and worship, and pray for one another, and let God communicate to us through different teachers He brings our way. We are currently going to be using the shop to hand out food to about 100 families who are needy in our area. We are hoping to build community with these people where they can experience the love of God in a discipleship setting. As I patiently wait on the Lord for restoration in my own personal family, the Lord is taking the little I have to offer Him and multiplying it for His kingdom. He is a merciful God and near to the broken-hearted.

Prayer Retreat

UTSA college students

Afghan kids

Praying with Andres on the street, we asked for God’s help.

UTSA college students Bible Study

This is part of our street ministry. These two men, Josiah, and Matthew, go with me to the most drug infested places in the city. This is Olivia who really loves Jesus, and she has asked us to get her a large print Bible. She lives on the street in her wheelchair.

This is with the Afghan refugee children. Our soccer ball got stuck on the roof! I always take a new soccer ball from Walmart and ask God to show me which kid to give it to. I’m building relationships with these kids, and I’ve come to know them well; Abbas, Esan, Zia, Maboob and Adnan to just name a few.

The Afghan refugee children

This was the Men’s Retreat where we covered conquering lust. Men’s lives were changed as a direct result of our time together. One man shared his testimony about how God set him totally free 14 years ago.

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Equine Based Outreach

CRforCW has found a particular niche where we believe there is an incredible opening and pathway to establishing ourselves as a beacon of safety, acceptance, and unconditional love and guidance, for the “at high risk” child and young adult in this area of South Dakota and northern Nebraska. By establishing a shelter where there are programs and opportunities to work with horses, we know that we are welcomed into a culture that is historically and currently still steeped in strong relationship with the horse! We have a great advantage in that most of the Board of Directors of CRforCW are accomplished equestrians – all of our past water/well programs were funded by ringside events at major horse shows throughout the Southwest! Having said that, we believe God has given us a new direction by spreading His love first by utilizing a resource of His creation that all of us have many, many years of experience with and share a great love. This is our new path and we are well suited for this with personal backgrounds ranging from current competitors in the Hunter/Jumper arena to Western Horsemanship and Rodeo. We all know horses, and we have spent lifetimes loving them; riding, competing and teaching others to safely do the same.

Life Changing Miracles

CRforCW has lots of challenges in front of us but these are only great opportunities and they are becoming more available to us daily. Personal relationships are strengthening with existing youth programs and ministries, including local efforts and community services. We are pushing forward to make inroads, establish trust and in the very near future provide a place of physical safety and spiritual love – the CRforCW Horse Center.

Please consider joining us with any resources that you have – prayer time, work skills and training, social networking and/or financial support. Please help us use Christ’s Resources for Christ’s Warriors and connect with us any way you can.

All our funds go to charity!

As a means to raise funds, Jo Jo White, the founder of CRforCW wrote a children’s book. Top Cat’s Second Chance is an inspirational book about forgiveness, hope, love and second chances! Through beautiful illustrations and photos, this 30 page book tells the TRUE story of a failed Thoroughbred race horse who became a National Champion. Available on Amazon

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