C-CAAL has a new store where you may purchase handmade items.
You may visit it here.
Friday, April 2, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
The African Events Show - TODAY!
If you live in the Houston area, check out this African event show scheduled tomorrow, March 27th, 2010 from 12-5pm.
C-CAAL(Christian-Cultural Awareness & Assistance League) will be there with an exhibit showcasing African art, beads, and other historical & traditional African products.
C-CAAL(Christian-Cultural Awareness & Assistance League) will be there with an exhibit showcasing African art, beads, and other historical & traditional African products.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Upcoming Mission Trip to Uganda
On June 4, 2010, a group of men and women from St. Philip's UMC of Houston will travel to Uganda, Africa to serve alongside Christian-Cultural Awareness and Assistance League to seek a deeper understanding of Christianity in the context of a particular culture. Our mission team leaders will be Mr. Christian Wabara, Rev. Phoebe Wabara, and Mrs. Jane Walker.
The mission will include visiting hospitals and ministering to patients, working with children, door to door evangelism, food distribution to orphans and prisoners, attending a service in a local church, teaching a workshop and /or other assigned tasks. The traveling team will have many opportunities to visit amazing tourist sites such as the Bujagari Falls, the source of the Nile, the Agaba beach, as well as attending a cultural show, visit an African village, the Uganda Museum and the city of Kampala with opportunities to shop for African art.
The cost of this trip (June 4-16, 2010) will be approximately 2,610 dollars (this includes a return airfare ticket, accommodations and meals, local transportation, tourist sites and entry visa fees). This is only a short-term trip but it has the possibility of impacting you for a lifetime.
An opportunity to help raise money for this trip will be offered soon.
If you would like to donate now, please click our "donate" button above.
Thank you!
The mission will include visiting hospitals and ministering to patients, working with children, door to door evangelism, food distribution to orphans and prisoners, attending a service in a local church, teaching a workshop and /or other assigned tasks. The traveling team will have many opportunities to visit amazing tourist sites such as the Bujagari Falls, the source of the Nile, the Agaba beach, as well as attending a cultural show, visit an African village, the Uganda Museum and the city of Kampala with opportunities to shop for African art.
The cost of this trip (June 4-16, 2010) will be approximately 2,610 dollars (this includes a return airfare ticket, accommodations and meals, local transportation, tourist sites and entry visa fees). This is only a short-term trip but it has the possibility of impacting you for a lifetime.
An opportunity to help raise money for this trip will be offered soon.
If you would like to donate now, please click our "donate" button above.
Thank you!
C-CAAL Programs
C-CAAL offers three specific programs to the community.
1. PROVIDING ENGLISH AS A THIRD LANGUAGE TO REFUGEES IN HOUSTON
English as a Third Language (ETL) is a program that teaches Basic English language, for conversation, reading and writing purposes. ETL is intended to provide to refugees all tools they need to learn how to communicate in the English language and express themselves in different situations. Also, the project seeks to empower them and to help them integrate smoothly into the American life and enjoy the freedom and opportunities available in the country. Furthermore, it prepares them for obtaining the American citizenship. Since most of these refugees have never been in school, ETL is the fastest way of bringing them to an elementary level education.
Currently, C-CAAL is looking for donors to sponsor the ETL course.
The course is provided by a qualified faculty that speak 3 to 5 foreign languages including the native language of the students. Most students migrated to Houston from the Great Lakes Region of Africa due to war and ethnic conflicts. They speak at least two African languages but do not speak English. These families are struggling to cope and make a life in the United States but without the language they are frustrated. They want to learn English but due to lack of basic elementary education they do not succeed in ESL classes. C-CAAL offered course is meeting their needs but due to lack of employment, most prospective students are not able to pay for it.
THIS COMMUNITY NEED YOUR HELP!
To become a sponsor, please contact us. The cost for each student is $75.
2. ISANO MINISTRY
The Isano Ministry is provided by Rev. Phoebe Wabara with the objective of empowering a group of Burundian Women, residing in Southwest Houston, whose lives have been affected by Ethnic Conflict.
The program includes, but is not limited to, the following activities:
*Teaching them Basic English
*Providing pastoral care
*Providing language interpretation and translation when needed,
*Providing other type of assistance such as help at the pharmacy store, reading food labels, providing transportation etc.
The idea of ISANO, (a Kinyarwanda word) in Phoebe's native language and culture is expressed in the expressions of "Uguhana amaboko" meaning "giving each other’s arms" or "Ugufata mu mugongo" which literally means "holding someone’s back."
3. CHILD SPONSORS
TABARA is an educational assistance program designed to help children in places that are suffering from the effects of ethnic conflict, war and violence. At C-CAAL, we believe strongly that the most effective way for long-term change to occur in places that are suffering from ethnic conflicts and war is for one sponsor to take an active interest in the educational life of one child.
Rationale:
When we look at the life of Jesus Christ on earth, we come to a realization that His messianic mission and message is addressed to the whole complex of socio-human life in His day. His teaching is implicated with specific human hurts and concerns, bringing dignity, meaning and hope to people. Jesus overrode cultural, racial, and traditional categories, which were used to evaluate people [John 4:6-26].
Change a child's world! Your tax-deductible contribution of just $30 a month provides to your sponsored child educational opportunities, programs that teach important life skills; and most important of all, your child hears about the good news of Jesus Christ and is encouraged to develop a lifelong relationship with God. Sponsoring a child will profoundly change the future for your child and will change your own life in the process.
You can start sponsoring a child today. C-CAAL partners, Julius and Harriet Ananura of Reach the Un-Reached Ministry in Uganda have a long waiting list of children waiting for your help! Contact us for more information.
C-CAAL is inviting you to respond to this great need and assist a child whose life has been affected by ethnic conflict, war and violence. In Matthew 10:42, Jesus said that whoever gives to one of these little ones even a cup of water to drink, truly shall not lose his or her reward.
1. PROVIDING ENGLISH AS A THIRD LANGUAGE TO REFUGEES IN HOUSTON
English as a Third Language (ETL) is a program that teaches Basic English language, for conversation, reading and writing purposes. ETL is intended to provide to refugees all tools they need to learn how to communicate in the English language and express themselves in different situations. Also, the project seeks to empower them and to help them integrate smoothly into the American life and enjoy the freedom and opportunities available in the country. Furthermore, it prepares them for obtaining the American citizenship. Since most of these refugees have never been in school, ETL is the fastest way of bringing them to an elementary level education.
Currently, C-CAAL is looking for donors to sponsor the ETL course.
The course is provided by a qualified faculty that speak 3 to 5 foreign languages including the native language of the students. Most students migrated to Houston from the Great Lakes Region of Africa due to war and ethnic conflicts. They speak at least two African languages but do not speak English. These families are struggling to cope and make a life in the United States but without the language they are frustrated. They want to learn English but due to lack of basic elementary education they do not succeed in ESL classes. C-CAAL offered course is meeting their needs but due to lack of employment, most prospective students are not able to pay for it.
THIS COMMUNITY NEED YOUR HELP!
To become a sponsor, please contact us. The cost for each student is $75.
2. ISANO MINISTRY
The Isano Ministry is provided by Rev. Phoebe Wabara with the objective of empowering a group of Burundian Women, residing in Southwest Houston, whose lives have been affected by Ethnic Conflict.
The program includes, but is not limited to, the following activities:
*Teaching them Basic English
*Providing pastoral care
*Providing language interpretation and translation when needed,
*Providing other type of assistance such as help at the pharmacy store, reading food labels, providing transportation etc.
The idea of ISANO, (a Kinyarwanda word) in Phoebe's native language and culture is expressed in the expressions of "Uguhana amaboko" meaning "giving each other’s arms" or "Ugufata mu mugongo" which literally means "holding someone’s back."
3. CHILD SPONSORS
TABARA is an educational assistance program designed to help children in places that are suffering from the effects of ethnic conflict, war and violence. At C-CAAL, we believe strongly that the most effective way for long-term change to occur in places that are suffering from ethnic conflicts and war is for one sponsor to take an active interest in the educational life of one child.
Rationale:
When we look at the life of Jesus Christ on earth, we come to a realization that His messianic mission and message is addressed to the whole complex of socio-human life in His day. His teaching is implicated with specific human hurts and concerns, bringing dignity, meaning and hope to people. Jesus overrode cultural, racial, and traditional categories, which were used to evaluate people [John 4:6-26].
Change a child's world! Your tax-deductible contribution of just $30 a month provides to your sponsored child educational opportunities, programs that teach important life skills; and most important of all, your child hears about the good news of Jesus Christ and is encouraged to develop a lifelong relationship with God. Sponsoring a child will profoundly change the future for your child and will change your own life in the process.
You can start sponsoring a child today. C-CAAL partners, Julius and Harriet Ananura of Reach the Un-Reached Ministry in Uganda have a long waiting list of children waiting for your help! Contact us for more information.
C-CAAL is inviting you to respond to this great need and assist a child whose life has been affected by ethnic conflict, war and violence. In Matthew 10:42, Jesus said that whoever gives to one of these little ones even a cup of water to drink, truly shall not lose his or her reward.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
About the Wabara Family
Phoebe Wabara, Executive Director of C-CAAL, is a dedicated wife of Christian Wabara of Nigeria and mother of three small children; Lydia, Hope, & Samuel. She is an ordained minister and member of St. Philips United Methodist Church in Houston, TX. She was baptized at eight years of age and confirmed in the parish led by her own father at age twelve. Throughout her high school years, she was involved in student ministries. Phoebe grew up in a large & prominent family in Rwanda where her father is a retiree national pastor and leader in the Presbyterian Church. Phoebe completed two degrees in the studies of Economics from the National University of Rwanda after which she worked for African Evangelistic Enterprise. She attended Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary and did doctoral level course work afterwards in the Department of Religion at Baylor. She also taught as an adjunct professor at Houston Baptist University. More recently, Phoebe completed three units of Clinical pastoral care serving as a Chaplain Resident with Memorial Hermann Hospital Systems.
Phoebe has extensive background experience in ministry and a unique call for God’s people to live in social harmony. She has served as a children and youth minister in Arlington and Waco, Texas respectively.
Prior to coming to the United States, Phoebe was caught up in the genocide that took one of her siblings, Rose with her whole family. In the ensuing years, two more of Phoebe’s siblings died of illness. Phoebe remains close to her parents and surviving brothers and sisters - all living in different parts of the world.
Once in America, Phoebe struggled with how to make sense of such tragedy as had overtaken her country and her family. "The temptation was to bury herself in her studies, to concentrate upon the always invitation in theology to see things in terms of glorious distraction. In a word, she was tempted to allow her new life to distract her into a welcome forgetfulness of former days and past sorrows. But somehow her reading of the Bible revealed a history of humankind diagnosed with a violent life, while the Gospel is an invitation against it” (Conyers).
At the beginning of the millennium, helped by her mentor, the late professor A. J. Conyers, and an ecliptic group of friends, she and Christian launched Christian-Cultural Awareness and Assistance League.
Currently, C-CAAL partners with Global Women, St. Stephen Presbyterian Church of Houston, Texas and Reach the Un-reached Ministry based in Kampala, Uganda, working in prisons, hospitals and top African leadership.
Phoebe has been a guest speaker at the following locations:
September 2009, Global Women Summit, Knoxville, Tennessee.
April 2009, St. Philips United Methodist Church, Houston, Texas.
October 2008: St. Philips United Methodist Church, Houston, TX.
November, 2008: Trinity University, San-Antonio, Texas.
September 2008, Global Women Conference, Trinity Baptist Church, San Antonio, Texas.
April 2008, Beloved Community Church, Birmingham, Alabama
March 2007, Preacher, Watchman Christian Center, & Buwambo Prison, Kampala, Uganda.
October 2006, Speaker, Chapel, Baylor University, Waco, Texas.
October 2006, KPRC Radio Guest Speaker.
September 2006, Speaker, Minute for Missions, St. Stephen Presbyterian Church, Houston, Texas.
October 21-24, 2004, Session Leader on “Missions, Reconciliation and Justice,” Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, San Antonio, Texas.
November 12, 2003, C-CAAL Guest Speaker, Highland Park Baptist Church, Austin, Texas.
Labor Week-end 2003, Speaker, First United Methodist Church, Clifton, Texas.
June 2003, Pulpit Guest, the Presbyterian Church of Rwanda, Kicukiro and Kiyovu Parishes.
September 22nd, 2002, & April 2001, Speaker, Red Oak First United Methodist Church, Lancaster, Texas.
June 2002, Baptist Voices Guest, ‘Sharing the Experience of Rwanda,” Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Conference, Fort-Worth, Texas.
December 2001, Pulpit Supply, St. Paul Presbyterian Church, Houston, Texas.
March 2001, Guest Respondent, ‘The Ethics of Forgiveness and Reconciliation,” George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Waco, Texas.
About C-CAAL
Christian Cultural Awareness & Assistance League, C-CAAL, was initiated in 2000 by Christian & Phoebe Wabara, guided by the late Dr. A.J. Conyers. The Wabara's saw a need for people of various races & ethnic backgrounds to come together and dialogue on the Christian idea of Human Community.
Since then, C-CAAL has established a foothold in the community and has held seminars on the theme of social harmony & reconciliation in various churches & universities. C-CAAL has assisted people affected by ethnic violence with rebuilding their socio-economical lives.
C-CAAL is founded on both biblical and theological ideals.
Biblical: Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things are from God, who reconciled us to God through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation. {2 Cor. 5:17-18}
For all you who were baptized into Christ, have clothed yourself with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. {Galations 3:27}
Theological: The resurrection of Christ does not mean a possibility within the world and it's history, but a NEW possibility altogether for the world, for the existence, and for history. - J. Moltmann
Founders:
Mr. Christian Wabara
Rev. Phoebe Nyiraneza Wabara
The late Dr. A.J. Conyers
Advisory Board Members:
Dr. and Mrs. Mark Bateman, Homewood, AL.
Dr. Pamela Hedrick, NC
Mrs. Sara Moore, Waco, TX
Mrs. Sonia Coyle, Austin, TX
Board Directors:
Rev. Pat Clark, Houston, TX
Ms. Charlotte Turner, Clifton, TX
Rev. Phuc Luu, Houston, TX.
Mr. Christian Wabara, Houston,TX,
Rev. Amy Glover, Orange County, CA.
Ms. Debby Conyers, Waco, TX,
Executive Director:
Phoebe Wabara
Since then, C-CAAL has established a foothold in the community and has held seminars on the theme of social harmony & reconciliation in various churches & universities. C-CAAL has assisted people affected by ethnic violence with rebuilding their socio-economical lives.
C-CAAL is founded on both biblical and theological ideals.
Biblical: Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things are from God, who reconciled us to God through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation. {2 Cor. 5:17-18}
For all you who were baptized into Christ, have clothed yourself with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. {Galations 3:27}
Theological: The resurrection of Christ does not mean a possibility within the world and it's history, but a NEW possibility altogether for the world, for the existence, and for history. - J. Moltmann
Founders:
Mr. Christian Wabara
Rev. Phoebe Nyiraneza Wabara
The late Dr. A.J. Conyers
Advisory Board Members:
Dr. and Mrs. Mark Bateman, Homewood, AL.
Dr. Pamela Hedrick, NC
Mrs. Sara Moore, Waco, TX
Mrs. Sonia Coyle, Austin, TX
Board Directors:
Rev. Pat Clark, Houston, TX
Ms. Charlotte Turner, Clifton, TX
Rev. Phuc Luu, Houston, TX.
Mr. Christian Wabara, Houston,TX,
Rev. Amy Glover, Orange County, CA.
Ms. Debby Conyers, Waco, TX,
Executive Director:
Phoebe Wabara
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Contact Information
Please feel free to contact C-CAAL at anytime.
Phone: 713-287-1277 or 832-231-4835
Email: wabarac@c-caal.org or phwabara@yahoo.com
Mailing Address: P.O.BOX 741661, HOUSTON, TX 77274
Web: http://www.c-caal.org
Phone: 713-287-1277 or 832-231-4835
Email: wabarac@c-caal.org or phwabara@yahoo.com
Mailing Address: P.O.BOX 741661, HOUSTON, TX 77274
Web: http://www.c-caal.org
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