Serve To LEAD is honored to influence the lives of many young people to grow in faith and take action through service to bring wholeness and restoration to the world around them. Osha is a junior who attends the School of Inquiry and Life Sciences at Asheville High. She participates weekly in Serve To LEAD’s […]
Dana Campbell, a recent graduate of Asheville High School, shares his experience with Serve To LEAD: When I joined Serve To LEAD it was because I wanted to make an impact on the lives of others. Since joining, I have been filled with gratitude towards the smaller things that we are so privileged to have […]
Art connects people, creates a shared experience, allows space for relationships to form and stories to be communicated. Art is a powerful force for social change. For the past four summers, artist Christopher Holt traveled with Serve To LEAD to the Dominican Republic, to share his time and talents with communities using visual art to […]
We recently returned from Sri Lanka with a team of students from Asheville Christian Academy. This team participated in ongoing poverty reduction projects which included building two homes, assisting in a community medical clinic, visiting many schools to support nutrition and education programs, visiting a micro business launched by United Christian Fellowship and Serve To […]
Serve To LEAD’s Student Spotlight: Kanaje’ Allen I am an individual that finds fulfillment in helping others. Saying that, having the opportunity to intern with Serve To LEAD is an honor. This organization has helped me become a better individual and it has opened my eyes and has shown me that everything I take for […]
This summer Serve To LEAD launched its first international youth development camp in the Dominican Republic! Working with youth from Asheville and the village of Saman, these young people spent 6 1/2 weeks learning, sharing, serving, and growing together. Youth from Asheville trained with us during the school year to prepare for the summer. […]
Last week we took our Girl Power World Changer Club from Isaac Dickson Elementary School on a field trip to the Compassion Experience. The Compassion Experience is an interactive journey through true stories of children living in developing countries and takes participants to the streets, homes, markets, and schools of children whose lives begin in poverty […]
Our Sri Lanka service team traveled over 1100 miles throughout the country as we served alongside our partners United Christian Fellowship. You can only imagine that with that much travel bathroom breaks were frequent. However, many communities in Sri Lanka lack access to toilets, creating health and safety issues in affected communities. One area where […]
We give thanks to all of our World Changer Club students and families that support our efforts to increase awareness of global issues and turn that knowledge into action through thoughtful service that reduces global poverty. Members of our Asheville High World Changer club joined us and our global partners United Christian Fellowship in Sri […]
Welcome to 2017! This has been an amazing year in the life of Heart of the Cross Ministries. As we reflect on our work and gear up for 2017 we give thanks for all of the love and support you have given us. Since our launch as a 501c(3) in December of 2014 we have […]