Christian Relief Fund

Summary

Christian Relief Fund ("CRF") is a nondenominational child sponsorship, relief, and aid agency. Baxter Loe founded CRF in 1974 in memory of John Abraham, a man who gave his life serving others. CRF receives and disburses funds for various mission and benevolent works. At present, the majority of its funds are expended in India, Africa, Central America, and Eastern Europe. CRF provides families with vital food supplements, medical care, education in nutrition and hygiene, job training, and Bible study for $25 per month per family. Besides ongoing and emergency medical help as part of its other programs, CRF operates the Good Samaritan Clinic in Ravalpally, India. Treatment and medicines are offered at cost to those who can afford to pay and are free for those who cannot. Whenever possible, CRF provides food, medical, and spiritual aid to victims of war or disaster. This organization is a nonprofit. Contributions to it are fully tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. It is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA).

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Christian Relief Fund ("CRF") is a nondenominational child sponsorship, relief, and aid agency. Baxter Loe founded CRF in 1974 in memory of John Abraham, a man who gave his life serving others. CRF receives and disburses funds for various mission and benevolent works. At present, the majority of its funds are expended in India, Africa, Central America, and Eastern Europe. CRF provides families with vital food supplements, medical care, education in nutrition and hygiene, job training, and Bible study for $25 per month per family.

Sponsors receive the history, photos, letters, and a loving relationship with your child. Besides ongoing and emergency medical help as part of its other programs, CRF operates the Good Samaritan Clinic in Ravalpally, India. Treatment and medicines are offered at cost to those who can afford to pay and are free for those who cannot. Whenever possible, CRF provides food, medical, and spiritual aid to victims of war or disaster. This organization is a nonprofit. Contributions to it are fully tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. It is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA).

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Christian Relief Fund communicates its purpose in the following way:

CRF is dedicated to following Christ’s example of ministering to physical & spiritual needs of the needy & hurting throughout the world, especially children, feeding the hungry, healing disease and heartbreak, fighting ignorance and poverty through education and preaching the Gospel through word and deed.

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Christian Relief Fund communicates its statement of belief in the following way: CRF believes in the basic Christian ethic of helping our neighbor without regard to sex, race, or creed. The CRF board is composed of men and women who have a sincere interest in mission work and benevolence and a deep love for mankind. They are all members of the church of Christ. The children and families helped by CRF programs are selected on the basis of need only. Spiritual guidance and counseling are provided and attendance of local church services is encouraged.

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Baxter Loe, founder of Christian Relief Fund, met John Abraham, a Christian minister who had given up his government job to preach, in May 1971 during a famine in India. John Abraham asked Baxter for assistance. But Baxter thought he could not afford to help. Months later, Baxter learned that John Abraham died of starvation. This horrible tragedy and the desperate needs Baxter saw in India gave him the conviction to follow Christ’s example of feeding the hungry, preaching the gospel to the poor, and healing their diseases and heartbreak.

CRF began by helping the three surviving children of John Abraham in 1971 and was incorporated February 15, 1974. By 1986 there were over 600 children in 12 Children’s Homes in India, and CRF’s extended to Malawi, Honduras, and Dominican Republic. By 1993 CRF programs were in Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador, Panama, Romania, Guatemala, Albania, Kenya, Nairobi, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Ethiopia, Nigeria.

CRF assisted the U.S. victims of Midwest floods. In 1994, CRF aided Bosnian and Rwandan refugees and victims of the California earthquake. In 1995 CRF sent aid to Haiti, the victims of the earthquake in Kobe, Japan, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the war in Sierra Leone. Victims of war in Liberia and hurricanes Bertha and Fran in eastern United States were helped in 1996.

In 1997, CRF supported Child Sponsorship in Liberia, relief for refugees in Burundi, and victims of natural disasters in California, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, North Dakota, Arkansas, and Texas. In 1998, CRF initiated child sponsorship programs in VietNam, Nicaragua and Uganda and provided relief for the victims of Hurricane Mitch in Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador. In 1999, CRF provided relief for Kosovo refugees in Albania and initiated New Child sponsorship programs in Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba.

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Through the Christian Relief Fund you can provide food, clothing, medical care, schooling, and loving Christian care to a hurting, hungry child. $25 a month provides regular, nutritious meals, decent clothing, medical care, a secure place to sleep at night and most importantly, loving Christian nurturing, for abandoned and orphaned children.

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Ranking Category	Rating	Overall Rank	Relief and Development Sector
Overall Efficiency Rating		78 of 348	24 of 52
Fund Acquisition Decision		78 of 348	24 of 52
Resource Allocation Decision		of 348	27 of 52
Asset Utilization Decision		of 348	27 of 52