ABOUT EAPE
For nearly 30 years, The Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education has been committed to what God is doing through Christian people in inner-city America and around the world. Under the leadership of Dr. Tony Campolo, EAPE has developed and nurtured elementary and secondary schools, universities, adult and child literacy centers, tutoring programs, orphanages, AIDS hospices, urban youth ministries, summer camps, and long-term Christian service programs in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Africa, Canada and throughout the USA. Our goal is to help build the Kingdom of God by combining evangelism and social justice in the name of Jesus. Listed below are some of the many ministries EAPE supports.
OUR MINISTIRES
Beyond Borders has partnered with Haitian church and community leaders to create more than 80 literacy centers for children and adults, bringing hope and dignity to some of Haiti's poorest people. Beyond Borders also provides extraordinarily well-planned short and long-term service-learning opportunities for groups and individuals wanting to travel to Haiti.
www.beyondborders.net
Urban Promise is headquartered in Camden, NJ, and reaches hundreds of children and teenagers through a variety of daily activities that include Bible study, evangelism, tutoring, sports, music and drama. They have also developed the Camden Forward Elementary School and the Home School Academy, an alternative school for high school students on the verge of dropping out. Another Urban Promise program, Camden Printworks, is a fast-growing T-shirt and printing business that trains and employs young entrepreneurs in a city with nearly 70% unemployment. Urban Promise also operates ministries in Wilmington, Delaware and Toronto and Vancouver, Canada.
www.urbanpromiseusa.org / Canada: www.urbanpromise.com
Cornerstone Christian Academy is an academically rigorous elementary school for children from low-income neighborhoods in West Philadelphia. Cornerstone has an outstanding faculty, an array of committed volunteers and more than three hundred promising students. This school stands as a beacon of hope in one of America's neediest neighborhoods.
www.cornerstonephiladelphia.com
Mission Year is a national Christian service program that recruits committed young adults to live and work together as full-time missionaries in poor inner-city neighborhoods. Each Mission Year team becomes part of a solid local church, performs regular community service (in schools, hospitals, and other agencies) and does daily outreach visitation in order to build life-changing relationships with neighbors. Mission Year currently has teams in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Oakland, and Chicago.
www.missionyear.org
The Campolo School of Social Change at Eastern University is an integrated group of graduate programs aimed at developing Christian professionals who will use their skills to transform urban communities around the world.
www.eastern.edu/academic/trad_grad/ssc/
Oasis/Zimbabwe provides housing, schooling, and loving care for hundreds of children who have been orphaned and, in many cases, afflicted themselves by the terrible AIDS epidemic in Africa. Oasis/Zimbabwe helps those children to live with hope and, when there is no choice, to die with dignity.
www.oasistrust.org
Compassion International recruits sponsors for needy children in more than 24 countries around the world. For just $32 per month, each Compassion sponsor helps provide food, clothing, health care, and Christian education for an individual boy or girl, with whom that sponsor is encouraged to correspond.
www.compassion.com
Of course, EAPE is more than just our programs. In addition to these and other Kingdom works we support, EAPE also facilitates the extensive speaking and writing ministry of our president, Dr. Tony Campolo, who boldly proclaims the Gospel of Jesus wherever he goes.
If you have been blessed by Tony Campolo, and want to join his ministry to the poor and oppressed, here is the place to start. Whether you want to volunteer as a missionary, sponsor a child, or simply join the list of friends who pray for and/or support Tony and the work of EAPE, contact us. Together, we can do great things in the Kingdom of God!
Other Ministries
Here are a number of other ministries we support and believe in:
