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 Crosspoint Advent Offerings Will Focus On Our African Parters
Bikes and Bibles: Providing bikes and native language Bibles to our African pastor partners has been a key part of our Africa Advent offerings since the very beginning! Our partners are ready to live as “deployed disciples” giving them bikes helps them get to all of the places God is sending them and native language Bibles ensure that God’s word is going with them!
Last time we visited our African partners, we heard a story from a young man in a rural village who learned to read using the Native Language Bible gifted to his local church by the people of Crosspoint. The Bible didn't just provide access to God's word, for some it provided a pathway to literacy!
Church Buildings and Church Plants: Crosspoint has been integral to helping build or finish building Church Buildings for our African partners since the very beginning of our Africa Advent offerings. Last year our strategy broadened and we began partnering with One Mission Society to offer an organized training program that empower pastors to start new churches (with our without buildings!)
The 75 pastors we have already helped train have planted 148 new churches. We recently got video of one of these church's first worship services - featuring a pastor in a robe with a stole, preaching to 50-75 folks gathered in a circle outside under the shade of a Palm Tree.
Pastoral Training: Africa Advent offerings help provide seminars and retreats, and empower leaders who train other leaders in an effort to support these gifted men and women as they make disciples, who make disciples across Africa. Our training efforts now also include helping support pastors get the education they need to be ordained and credentialed in the Global Methodist Church.
Part of the education and training efforts are taking place in the Rurel Ausley Training Center, named in honor of our lead pastor emeritus, who continues to do GREAT work leading our African efforts and supporting our partners.
