2013 ANNUAL REPORT US THIS DAY “Yesterday Is Gone
GIVE 2013 ANNUAL REPORT US THIS DAY “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has yet to come. We have only today. Let us begin.” —Blessed Teresa of Calcutta 2013 ANNUAL REPORT | 70 YEARS OF FAITH AND INNOVATION Photo by Asad Zaidi for CRS LETTER FROM DR. CAROLYN Y. WOO Each morning in my prayer, I ask for wisdom, strength, patience and the grace I will need that day. But most of all, I give thanks to God for being so generous, so bountiful, and for granting me the privilege of serving the poor through my work at Catholic Relief Services. What you will see in the pages of this report is that God’s bounty is evident throughout the world. It appears even at the worst of times, in the most difficult of circumstances, through the generosity and solidarity of people like you; through the skill and dedication of the employees of CRS; and, most of all, through the commitment of the Church in the United States to carry out the Gospel mission of Photo by Jennifer Hardy/CRS serving the poor, wherever they may live. At CRS, Christ’s call to remain and keep watch with Him constitutes the foundation for all that we do, for our very existence. Our care for life, from conception to natural death, drives us to work wherever we find poverty, hunger, oppression or hopelessness. We want people around the world to see the face of God in the crops from a successful harvest, in the clear water of a new well, in the cry of a healthy baby, in a child’s education, in peace replacing strife.
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