A cross for those who have lost heart
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American Cross Global, a 501(c)(4) non-profit, is destroying darkness with a candle. It is making an effort helping traumatized persons from natural and Man-made disasters to get "heart" (courage and confidence) back. People need to be able to "move on" after adverse circumstances. Recovering a sense of optimism after a catastrophe is essential. This means to trust that things will get better no matter how bad they seem, to look for the best aspects of any situation, and a belief that good will inevitably triumph over evil. Trauma cements when an unanticipated danger that a person can't prepare for is realized. This may apply to PTSD veterans, survivors of terror bombings and school shootings, wildfires and hurricanes. If a recovery of determination and resolve is left undone, it can lead to survivor guilt or self-destructiveness.
There is a webpage, https://www.americancross.org that has 330 pages, 135 topics and twenty-five links to deal with issues, using a variety of common sense/generic spirituality. But it's not just the United States - there are those who have been traumatized by a Russian airline explosion, Cyclone Fani in India, Sri Lanka hotel/church blasts, a Notre Dame cathedral fire, Venezuelan blackouts, a New Zealand mosque shooting, a Manchester concert bombing, Boko Haram kidnappings, Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, a Haitian earthquake, an Asian tsunami or refugees globally. The webpage may be translated into 103 languages. It can never be enough. ACG has as a goal to build a cross monument in southwestern Kansas. This is to encourage faith - being sure of what we hope for, and certain of what we do not see. People's lives have been torn to shreds, and they should have something to help.
Not to detract at all from people's hardships, but there are other monuments in the middle of nowhere, which have been well received. Crazy Horse Memorial - a big statue of the Native American chief Crazy Horse in the Black Hills, western South Dakota - 1,000,000 visits/year. White Sands National Monument - a large gypsum dunefield (similar to deserts in Algeria and Australia) in the Chichuahuan Desert, southern New Mexico - 500,000 visits/year. Montezuma Castle National Monument - cliff dwellings built and used by the Sinagua people around 800 years ago, in Cocinono National Forest, central Arizona - 600,000 visits/year. Ark Encounter, a full-size replica of Noah's Ark completed in 2016 - 510 feet long, 85 feet wide, 51 feet high near Williamstown, Kentucky - 1,000,000 visits/year. We want as many people as possible to visit, so the material on the webpage will be more meaningful for them and they can recover some heart - courage and confidence - as soon as possible.
The cross site is located near the geographical center of the lower forty-eight states, near Interstate 40. People can be inspired, as they interpret a cross in their own way, and may want to see a physical object, even if it's only a virtual tour of the monument. A cross can mean a power against evil. This may symbolize different things to different people. A person might not have the time, or energy to visit. But with a thorough virtual tour, which will be online, you can take a tour of the cross site from your home and buy a cross from the visitor center, if you would like, online. This is not to commercialize anything, but it may give certain ones something to hang onto. In the ideal, people can visit the monument physically - practically they may not be able, due to time constraints or financial issues.
The purpose is to raise $250,000 for design work and land purchase - $75,000 for design and $175,000 for land. This is in the "ballpark" of what has been raised for saving a used bookstore ($55,000), Egg Boy in New Zealand ($80,000), an injured dog's veterinarian bills ($100,000), a college student's funeral/memorial costs, after being murdered - thinking she was in a Uber vehicle ($150,000), a young woman, whose dead body was found in the trunk of a car - for her family ($150,000), ladders to get over Trump's wall ($160,000), saving the parrots - a bird ($185,000), a Christian author's hospital expenses before her death ($250,000), a person from Hong Kong suffering a horrific accident while practicing a common gymnastic move ($300,000), security for a lady shaming a Supreme Court nominee ($850,000), Native Americans fighting an oil pipeline in North Dakota ($3,000,000), or funds to build The Wall on the southern border ($21,000,000). If excess funds are raised for design work and land purchase from this campaign, they will be donated to St. Jude Children's Hospital.
The object is to aid people to believe in themselves again. It is important to receive support and build up self-esteem, after a traumatic event. When social responsibility projects are public, people expect transparency. Please, if you wish, log onto the webpage and punch on a topic of interest. This is not corny - emotional and obvious from having been used too often - rhetoric. You can return to the table of contents through an icon of "back to top". What American Cross Global is trying to do is help people in despair out of their "pit", and allow them to lead a normal, healthy life again. It's not an injured dog or "saving the parrots" - these are people's lives in the fire. Four abused and neglected children, twenty veterans and 155 persons addicted to opioids die every day. When people lose heart, they may turn to drugs, crime, or suicide.
In March 2019, a 19-year-old graduate of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (Parkland, Fl.) ended life. A few days later, a student at that school did the same. Parents and organizations came together to discuss "what we can do to help students at MSD cope with trauma and depression (Robert Runcie, superintendent of schools)".
And one day after this, the father of one of the twenty first-grade students killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook School (Newtown, Conn.) shooting, intentionally caused his own death. All within one week, all from suicide. Society moves on after a shooting - they didn't.
"There is a generation of American students that has grown up with lockdown and active shooter drills. These drills were designed to protect them, but have resulted instead in a feeling of helplessness, dread and trauma (Kris Brown, president Brady Campaign)." A woman, who lost part of her leg during the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013, underwent surgery in 2019 after being hit while crossing a street.
She posted on social media: "Struck by a car while on a crosswalk. Thrown into the air and landed, crushing the left side of my body. Yesterday. I'm completely broken. More surgery to come." Or, a PTSD veteran to a VA therapist: "Your tools are broken." And not just veterans. After Hurricane Katrina, 50% of people surveyed reported they had symptoms of PTSD.
Or, carfentanil, which is 10,000 times stronger than morphine. Drug dealers mix it into such drugs as cocaine and heroin because it is cheaper than the other drugs. Users do not know they are getting it. Two milligrams of carfentanil is enough to sedate an elephant. People are dead, and families are broken.
A cross, as a spiritual landmark, and a webpage as a concept for the common good, may help them to feel encouraged and optimistic, again. "Thank you for working on a project of such importance; your desire to help those who have suffered is wonderful to see" - a social media consultant in Texas. There are thousands of persons in these, or similar, predicaments - whose spirit has been crushed, traumatized by a personal tragedy. Changing a future outcome is what $20, $30 or $50 given can possibly do.
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There is a webpage, https://www.americancross.org that has 330 pages, 135 topics and twenty-five links to deal with issues, using a variety of common sense/generic spirituality. But it's not just the United States - there are those who have been traumatized by a Russian airline explosion, Cyclone Fani in India, Sri Lanka hotel/church blasts, a Notre Dame cathedral fire, Venezuelan blackouts, a New Zealand mosque shooting, a Manchester concert bombing, Boko Haram kidnappings, Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, a Haitian earthquake, an Asian tsunami or refugees globally. The webpage may be translated into 103 languages. It can never be enough. ACG has as a goal to build a cross monument in southwestern Kansas. This is to encourage faith - being sure of what we hope for, and certain of what we do not see. People's lives have been torn to shreds, and they should have something to help.
Not to detract at all from people's hardships, but there are other monuments in the middle of nowhere, which have been well received. Crazy Horse Memorial - a big statue of the Native American chief Crazy Horse in the Black Hills, western South Dakota - 1,000,000 visits/year. White Sands National Monument - a large gypsum dunefield (similar to deserts in Algeria and Australia) in the Chichuahuan Desert, southern New Mexico - 500,000 visits/year. Montezuma Castle National Monument - cliff dwellings built and used by the Sinagua people around 800 years ago, in Cocinono National Forest, central Arizona - 600,000 visits/year. Ark Encounter, a full-size replica of Noah's Ark completed in 2016 - 510 feet long, 85 feet wide, 51 feet high near Williamstown, Kentucky - 1,000,000 visits/year. We want as many people as possible to visit, so the material on the webpage will be more meaningful for them and they can recover some heart - courage and confidence - as soon as possible.
The cross site is located near the geographical center of the lower forty-eight states, near Interstate 40. People can be inspired, as they interpret a cross in their own way, and may want to see a physical object, even if it's only a virtual tour of the monument. A cross can mean a power against evil. This may symbolize different things to different people. A person might not have the time, or energy to visit. But with a thorough virtual tour, which will be online, you can take a tour of the cross site from your home and buy a cross from the visitor center, if you would like, online. This is not to commercialize anything, but it may give certain ones something to hang onto. In the ideal, people can visit the monument physically - practically they may not be able, due to time constraints or financial issues.
The purpose is to raise $250,000 for design work and land purchase - $75,000 for design and $175,000 for land. This is in the "ballpark" of what has been raised for saving a used bookstore ($55,000), Egg Boy in New Zealand ($80,000), an injured dog's veterinarian bills ($100,000), a college student's funeral/memorial costs, after being murdered - thinking she was in a Uber vehicle ($150,000), a young woman, whose dead body was found in the trunk of a car - for her family ($150,000), ladders to get over Trump's wall ($160,000), saving the parrots - a bird ($185,000), a Christian author's hospital expenses before her death ($250,000), a person from Hong Kong suffering a horrific accident while practicing a common gymnastic move ($300,000), security for a lady shaming a Supreme Court nominee ($850,000), Native Americans fighting an oil pipeline in North Dakota ($3,000,000), or funds to build The Wall on the southern border ($21,000,000). If excess funds are raised for design work and land purchase from this campaign, they will be donated to St. Jude Children's Hospital.
The object is to aid people to believe in themselves again. It is important to receive support and build up self-esteem, after a traumatic event. When social responsibility projects are public, people expect transparency. Please, if you wish, log onto the webpage and punch on a topic of interest. This is not corny - emotional and obvious from having been used too often - rhetoric. You can return to the table of contents through an icon of "back to top". What American Cross Global is trying to do is help people in despair out of their "pit", and allow them to lead a normal, healthy life again. It's not an injured dog or "saving the parrots" - these are people's lives in the fire. Four abused and neglected children, twenty veterans and 155 persons addicted to opioids die every day. When people lose heart, they may turn to drugs, crime, or suicide.
In March 2019, a 19-year-old graduate of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (Parkland, Fl.) ended life. A few days later, a student at that school did the same. Parents and organizations came together to discuss "what we can do to help students at MSD cope with trauma and depression (Robert Runcie, superintendent of schools)".
And one day after this, the father of one of the twenty first-grade students killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook School (Newtown, Conn.) shooting, intentionally caused his own death. All within one week, all from suicide. Society moves on after a shooting - they didn't.
"There is a generation of American students that has grown up with lockdown and active shooter drills. These drills were designed to protect them, but have resulted instead in a feeling of helplessness, dread and trauma (Kris Brown, president Brady Campaign)." A woman, who lost part of her leg during the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013, underwent surgery in 2019 after being hit while crossing a street.
She posted on social media: "Struck by a car while on a crosswalk. Thrown into the air and landed, crushing the left side of my body. Yesterday. I'm completely broken. More surgery to come." Or, a PTSD veteran to a VA therapist: "Your tools are broken." And not just veterans. After Hurricane Katrina, 50% of people surveyed reported they had symptoms of PTSD.
Or, carfentanil, which is 10,000 times stronger than morphine. Drug dealers mix it into such drugs as cocaine and heroin because it is cheaper than the other drugs. Users do not know they are getting it. Two milligrams of carfentanil is enough to sedate an elephant. People are dead, and families are broken.
A cross, as a spiritual landmark, and a webpage as a concept for the common good, may help them to feel encouraged and optimistic, again. "Thank you for working on a project of such importance; your desire to help those who have suffered is wonderful to see" - a social media consultant in Texas. There are thousands of persons in these, or similar, predicaments - whose spirit has been crushed, traumatized by a personal tragedy. Changing a future outcome is what $20, $30 or $50 given can possibly do.
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Organizer
Jacob Berry
Organizer
Amarillo, TX
