Learn more about this year's Crosspoint Advent Offerings, the history and impact of past offerings, and the Advent Spending Challenge.
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Crosspoint Advent Offerings:
Since 2008 the people of Crosspoint have celebrated the Christmas Season by giving over 4 million dollars to mission projects. Every year we've issued the challenge to spend less/give more. This is what viewing Christmas through a “Kingdom Builder” lens looks like!
This year there are two Crosspoint Advent Offerings:
1. Africa Advent: Our annual favorite! Africa Advent offerings provide Bikes, Bibles Church Buildings, and Pastoral trainings to partners in and around the Democratic Republic Of The Congo.
2. Local Christian Recovery Homes: This year we will be supporting Christian Recovery Homes in Baker, Crestview, and Choctaw Beach. These homes help folks overcome life controlling addictions, homelessness, and the challenge of reintegration after a period of incarceration.
Africa Advent:
Partnerships in Africa have been a crucial part of our Advent Offerings since the very beginning. God is doing an amazing work in the Church in Africa, and we want to do all we can to support our brothers and sisters on the front lines of that work!
Since 2008, the people of Crosspoint have given over 2 million dollars to support God's work in Africa. We've sent 5 teams over the years to support the work and build relationships. We've had our African partners visit us many times through the years. Our pastor Emeritus even leads an ongoing discipleship & training group with African Pastors by zoom!
We couldn't be more proud of the work our partners do. And we couldn't be more excited about the relationships God has built among us.
Africa Advent Offerings Support The African Church through:
Bikes & Motorcycles: Bikes for pastors, and motorcycles for regional church leaders help the pastors reach rural areas for visitation and evangelism, they also help bi-vocational pastors get crops to market and support their families.
Locally sourced bicycles cost: $150
Bibles: When pastors graduate and take on church leadership, we help provide Bibles in their native language. These Bibles become community resources that give congregations access to God's word, and even serve as tools to increase literacy, as many rural areas do not have access to local language resources at all!
Native language Bibles cost: $25
Pastoral Training: We help provide training and support for African pastors through our friends at the International Leadership Institute (ILI). This includes hosting conferences as part of our trips to Africa, and empowering and training local leaders to lead trainings in their regions. Trainings focus on 8 core values: Intimacy with God, Passion for the Harvest, Visionary Leadership, Culturally Relevant Evangelism, Multiplication of Leaders, Family Priority, Faithful Stewardship, and Integrity.
Church Buildings: Every time we build or complete a church in Africa, our pastoral partners fill it with God's people! We've built or completed dozens of churches for our friends over the years! Sometimes that means building from the ground up, sometimes local folks have made bricks and built walls and we supply the tin roof that keeps them dry and cool. The Church building serves as a community hub, it provides much more than Sunday worship!
Local Christian Recovery Homes
The local component of Crosspoint Advent Offerings actually predate the "Advent Offerings" program itself!
Starting sometime in the mid 1980s Crosspoint dedicated it's Christmas Eve offering to vulnerable children! In 2008, when we started our advent offerings, that tradition continued!
This year, the local portion of our Advent offering will go to three Christian Recovery Homes that we have longstanding and deep partnerships with.
Saving Grace:
The Saving Grace Women's Home in Baker has a very close relationship with our Crestview campuses and has been a Mission Northwest and Community Serve Day site many times. They provide a safe, caring, Christ-Centered environment for women who are rebuilding their lives.
Savinggracewh.com
Project Hope:
The Florida Project Hope Men's Home in Crestview have been connected to Crosspoint since their founding! We got to know them when they were based in Fort Walton Beach, and have continued to be encouraged by their thoughtful program for years! They have deep ties to Crosspoint's Celebrate Recovery Programs, and recently started serving their community through a grocery giveaway similar to the one held by Crosspoint's Niceville Campus.
Projecthoperc.com
Freedom House:
Freedom House is a new recovery home for women in Choctaw Beach (between Bluewater and Freeport). Freedom House is a part of a ministry that helps folks seeking life transformation access and discover the resources available to them. Freedom House has a close tie to the web of social services for folks recovering from addiction, and to the local Jail.
Freedomlifecompass.org
You can give to either of the two Crosspoint Advent Offering anytime:
All of the over and above offerings received for Advent Offerings go directly towards the Advent projects, none of these dollars stay with Crosspoint ministires.
Giving Online:
Give using this form: CLICK HERE
Giving In Person:
Give using the envelopes and buckets in the back of the worship venue where you worship. You can designate which offering you'd like to give to using the envelopes. Leaving your name and phone number on the envelope helps our finance folks ensure you get tax credit for your giving.
How Is My Giving Designated?
Africa Advent offerings pay for bikes for African Pastors, motorbikes for church area supervisors, native language Bibles for pastors, Pastoral Trainings for partners and friends, and building or completing Church buildings. These funds are distributed according to the most relevant needs, by Pastor Emeritus Rurel Ausley, and the projects are overseen by a team of African partners that we trust deeply.
Local Christian Recovery Home offerings will go to Saving Grace Women's Home in Baker, Project Hope Men's Home in Crestview, and Freedom House in Choctaw Beach. All three of these homes are non-profits that we know well and have a very high degree of respect for. We have partnered with them many times in the past and believe in their mission and leadership. Funds will be divided according to the needs of each home.
