The Plan.

The Crane Project is a project aimed to help struggling people around the world and encourage others to pray for people they might not even know.

This is how it works: You know someone who is dealing with some problems, having a rough time with someone or getting into fights. Whatever it may be, things are simply not going their way. This is what you do, you tell the people at The Crane Project (through blog comment, facebook, email, text..). You can be as vague or as descriptive as you want, whatever you feel comfortable with. Us here at The Crane Project, we take this problem and on a sheet of origami paper, we write our prayer to God to help. We then fold that piece of paper into a paper crane and give it to you to deliver to this person you know, or you give us an address to reach them at and we get it to them ourselves, whatever works best for you. We add this persons name to a list, and we we pray for them. We pray for them until their problems are fixed. And when their problems are fixed, they can choose to unfold the crane and see what we were praying for or keep it folded and know that people have been praying for them.

The Background.

Last year my teachers brother got in a bad accident and had to have a very risky surgery. He could have come out of the surgery being paralyzed from the neck down, not able to move his neck or even worse. This news was given to us on a Friday. His surgery was on the following Monday. In those 4 days with the help and support of about 30 people, my four best friends and I made 1000 origami cranes to make a wish for our teachers brother to be healed. After a weekend of no sleep we went to school with 800 cranes made on Monday morning. The 1000th crane was folded at 1:17 pm that Monday just as the end of 7th period bell rang. Those of us who were there for the last string of the whole thing, all counting and folding cranes for the past 45 minutes in the Chorus room, fell in to a deep silence as the last crane was dropped in the box. We made the wish. Tuesday morning we found out our teachers brothers surgery was a success. He wasn't paralyzed and still had some, but limited, movement in his neck.


I don't necessarily believe that the wish was what made him alright. I believe that him being healed was a gift from God showing us that if we set our mind to something, and get the job done with a positive attitude for the good of someone else, He will reward us.

We had never met the man, and I don't think we ever will. But we wanted to help him, we needed to. If you've ever made one paper crane, you'd know that it's not that easy. Making 1000 of them was probably one of the hardest things I've ever done. But we did it, and God thanked us by healing Jeffery.

The History.

An ancient Japanese legend promises that anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish, such as long life or recovery from illness or injury. The crane in Japan is one of the mystical or holy creatures and is said to live for over a thousand years. In Asia, it is commonly said that folding 1000 paper origami cranes makes a persons wish come true. Paper cranes also symbolize peace.

The Beginning.

The Crane Project.

I wanted to start it on September 21 because it is the National Day of Peace, but I had to pray about it before. So today, September 23, 2010 is the official launch of The Crane Project.