Our Mission
Carrying Christ to the Youth International is a ministry that is truly focused on helping children have the opportunity to be children as well as having a place they can call home.
We strive to give the young people in our care a space to learn, create and shape into the best version of themselves. If we want to make a difference or an impact on tomorrow, it starts with how we care for our children today!
“Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
Our Work
Home/Boarding School
- A HOME. A space for creativity, love and growth.
- HOPE. Giving youth hope and opportunity.
- LEADERSHIP. Giving youth guidance and education.
International Youth Center
We are also looking to build a International Youth Center that will be our home base and headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It will host school activities and events.
How can you get involved?
FIRST GOAL = $60,000
We are in need of donations for resources: supplies and money. This will go towards building our boarding school and home in Liberia. The school will be elementary through high school, including after-school and summer programs as well. This will give students a great education, providing a stable environment to learn in.
“Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.”
– PROVERBS 22:6 –
About Us
My name is Joe Emmanuel Gassagee and this is my beautiful wife Annie. We have a beautiful mini-army of our own children – whether biological or children we have raised due to difficult circumstances – the calling to start a ministry for children has always felt like our calling from God.
Upon arriving in the states as refugees from Africa, the first few years were extremely rough. Not only from a financial standpoint but also because our environment was riddled with violence and negative influences. We realized that we could not give our kids everything they needed to succeed – not only in this country but in this life. That is when we stumbled upon different children’s ministries here in the United States.
"I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my children are walking in the truth.”
– 3 JOHN 1:4 –
Our the Team
CEO/FOUNDER
Joe Harris Gbassagee
701-327-0167
jgbassagee@yahoo.com
MISSION DIRECTOR
Annie Harris Gbassagee
612 325 2583
MARKETING/CONTACT
George Gbesee
208-818-6004
CHAIRWOMAN
Helena W. Wellah
NATIONAL COORDINATOR
Deacon Roosevelt Gaylah
MUSIC MINISTER
Gladys Gaylah