Operation Care Philippines
Kicks off July 5 at CPU
Don Perritt, board member of Operation Care Dallas, Texas
At the CPU Promenade today, July 5, Susie Yanson Jennings, president-founder of Operation Care Dallas, will kick off Operation Care-Philippines (OCP) with Dr. Augustin Pulido, former CPU President and caretaker of the university as keynote speaker.
Hundreds of boxes from Dallas, Taxas, USA containing gifts and Bibles be given to over 2,000 children coming from depressed villages of Zarraga, Sta. Barbara and Iloilo City. Over 16 churches in Iloilo and a hundred volunteers will assist Susie, Don Perritt, board member of Operation Care, Dallas, Texas; Pastor Edwin Araña of Christ Centered Church; Fely Chin, dean of CPU College of Arts and Sciences, OCP Co-Chairmen and many others. Over 16 churches in Iloilo and a hundred volunteers will assist in the distribution of gifts to children. "Suffer little children and forbid them not to come unto me, for such is the kingdom of heaven," Jesus said in Matthew 19:14.
Susie with Faith Areno (3rd from left) and Rowena Dala
From the humble beginning of Operation Care Dallas, Texas, a non-profit organization in 2001, Susie, a 1978 nursing graduate of Central Philippine University and a registered nurse of Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, while driving in downtown Dallas saw a hundred homeless people living under the bridge and on street corners. Single handedly, she took a bold step of faith and helped the orphans and homeless, young and old alike. From the minuscule amount of $5, doctors, nurses, co-workers and church members in Dallas and Operation Care Dallas came into life. With a big heart for Ilonggo children, orphans and homeless, the project may extend to other places in the Philippines soon.