Award Winning Cartoonist Guy Gilchrist Teams Up With Cross International Providing Mission Work To Schools and Orphanages

    NASHVILLE, TN, March 26, 2015 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Award winning internationally syndicated cartoonist and author of the iconic Nancy comic strip, Guy Gilchrist is teaming up with Cross International in providing mission work and charitable donations to orphanages in Haiti. Gilchrist will be touring Haiti, March 24-26 to see firsthand the schools and orphanages where the relief funds will be directed, as well as to better understand the needs and dreams of the children who will benefit. Gilchrist will also draw cartoons with the children and teachers during the visit and seek to inspire the children with his presentations and drawings. He will be will be singing and playing the guitar as well with the children at each stop and will be leaving an Epiphone with the children. Gilchrist will be accompanied by Anna Marie Guthrie, his art assistant on Nancy.

"I have been very blessed with many talents and success from God," said Guy Gilchrist. "I believe that with the blessings that have been given me it is my duty to help those in need and teaming up with Cross International is the perfect way to do this.

"Cross International does incredible work in bringing food, education, and the gospel to children in Haiti," continued Gilchrist. "I am honored to be a part of their efforts.

Gilchrist will tour the following during his visit:
Togetherness in Christ, a Christian orphanage in Augier, Haiti. The orphanage is a holistic ministry providing orphans and vulnerable children with a safe home, food, health care, education and the opportunity to grow up in a Christian community. It provides for the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of 68 resident children and give them a chance for life without poverty.

Divine Shelter Schools located in Port-au-Prince and rural Haiti. Cross International helps the schools educate and feed nearly 4,220 poor children at 17 Christian schools in the most impoverished areas of Haiti.

School for the Good Sower located in Port-au-Prince. The school provides a Christian primary education to orphans living at the Haiti Home for Children and to children from poor families in the surrounding neighborhood.

In touring Haiti, Gilchrist seeks to bring a greater awareness of the work being done by Cross International. He hopes this public awareness will result in continued assistance to these worthy projects that he takes an active part in promoting and assisting.

Guy Gilchrist at the age of 24, he was hand-selected to create Jim Henson's Muppets Comic Strip that was printed worldwide in 660-plus newspapers daily from 1981 to 1986. Throughout the years, he has set his hand to such notable cartoons as Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry, Fraggle Rock and The Pink Panther and was instrumental in the creation of The Muppet Babies.

Syndicated internationally in 80 countries and some 400 newspapers, Nancy has a viewership of 57 million readers around the world. And as fans of the the comic strip know, Nancy resides in the fictional town of Three Rocks with her Aunt Fritzi and friend, Sluggo. Gilchrist took over the Nancy comic strip in 1995. In 2013 he unveiled a one-of-a-kind exhibit, Nancy Loves Nashville, at the Nashville International Airport that revealed the location of Three Rocks as a suburb just outside of Nashville.

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