ISSACHAR INTERNATIONAL: TOUCHING THE LOCAL WORLDTerrance French

Cirvant Ministries
Terrance French of Cirvant Ministries is a man whose own life story has become the impetus for extraordinary compassion for the abandoned or abused children of urban poverty. As a poet, songwriter, and cutting edge singer, he employs his gifts and talents to be an advocate for those who have no voice, as well as an agent for healing hearts deeply scarred.

Terrance is currently partnering with Love In A Big World to implement service learning projects in dozens of schools in Tennessee. Love In A Big World (LBW) entertains, educates, & inspires Kids Character Hope. LBW provides character education programs and materials to public schools for children in K-8th grade, with emphasis on four basic strategies: curriculum, performing arts, literacy and community development, offering schools staff development courses, curriculum, student assemblies, music CD’s, morning announcements, and classroom resource materials including NIE (Newspapers in Education).

Jesus in the Hood
Beyond the schools, Cirvant Ministries is dedicated to serving neighborhoods located in the inner city, and envisions “Dream House” centers that would provide a safe atmosphere for youth of the inner city to dream and explore their creative gifts.

Extending his many facets of service beyond the USA, Terrance has traveled multiple times to Uganda, Africa on behalf of orphans and child soldiers, and is currently working in Capetown, South Africa, in some of the most broken social contexts. His immense compassion is coupled with a vision for practical solutions. He has a heart to see Mission Houses established providing a family structure and education for those same orphans and street children.

From a fullness of developing personhood Terrance is a man of substance impacting people wherever he goes. Currently he has few avenues from which to draw support, and your gift to him could really make a difference.

DAVID & PEGGY FITZPATRICK ISSACHAR INTERNATIONAL FOUNDERS

From the beginning of our marriage, our dinner table has created an ongoing forum for thoughts and ideas from each member of our family as well as others joining us. Any of us who are parents understand well that through the lives of our children our own worlds are enriched, challenged and expanded. Our lives have been no exception.

As our energies were poured into the well-being of the church and into the defining and refining of a fresh and current church model, our children were on a journey of their own. Our second-born announced at the age of eight that she would be adopting orphans and possibly running an orphanage. She never wavered from this vision. Our first, always one to ponder and sift through the status quo, began early to ask, “If the church is about Jesus, and Jesus is about the poor, why is the church not about the poor more than about all these other subjects of church life?” Hmm, good question. What to do, and how?

Of course we had this person or that over the years spending a season with us in our home, from new believers to those with significant trauma that left them mentally unstable or even homeless. We did short term trips to less fortunate places to help with a construction project or visit the poor. But this was not enough to satisfy him, and he sought out the people living under Nashville’s bridges, and then with nothing but the clothes on his back and his backpack, the villagers left in the wake of the Serbian war, eventually on to the laborers of India, and always in those teen years, our dinner table was the gathering place for our children’s friends, who were together forging their own version of what it meant to follow Jesus.

They had a passion and a quest; we had a roof and a table, and so began the early dawning of what is now Issachar International. Some of the individuals featured on this site were among those around our Shabbat dinner table, and others are more recent friends, but born out of these days was the warmth and support that has culminated in the vision statement of Issachar International.

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