This Week at Cross Church: Celebrating Cross Church

A New Year at Cross Church

I am extremely excited to be a part of a great church, Cross Church! I am also excited about the great opportunity to be a part of all that God is doing through our Church. This past Sunday night was an absolutely incredible time of worshipping God and being encouraged from the Word at our Cross Church Family Night of Worship at our Pinnacle Hills Campus. Immediately prior to that service, the Cross Church Family approved the 2013 – 2014 Ministry Budget for our Church in the amount of $16,780,000. Cross Church Family, this is a God-sized goal and we all need to help meet the challenges of this new fiscal year and see how God uses our Church in the process.

Celebrating an Incredible, God-Anointed Year

Never forget how God anointed Cross Church this year. In this current fiscal year of 2012 – 2013, Cross Church saw a record number of baptisms with 1,175 people being baptized in our Northwest Arkansas ministries alone. Each of these numbers represents a person whose life has been changed for all eternity. Cross Church Family, when you gave to our Church, you were a part of each of those 1,175 stories of redemption and salvation. THANK YOU! Never forget that this year, Cross Church launched a brand new and unique ministry, the Cross Church School of Ministry. Through this ministry, we believe God will help us touch the next generation for Jesus Christ and literally touch Northwest Arkansas, America, and the World for Jesus. The giving of your tithes made this possible. THANK YOU! Never forget that God moved, you gave, and we saw Cross Church help plant churches all over America and around the world this year. Now, these church plants are investing in the lives of people all over the world. You are a part of these incredible stories. THANK YOU!

The Year Ahead

Cross Church, the stories of changed lives are far too numerous to tell in this note. But they are real, and as you volunteer your time and give your offerings to our Church, you are a part of their stories. We need to finish this year strong. We have two weeks remaining in the current fiscal year and we all need to continue to give faithfully to the Church. Then, we all need to step up and honor God with all we do in the coming year and see how God uses Cross Church in miraculous ways to impact lives again this year. We have great opportunities ahead in our Mission ministries, our Worship ministries, our Compassion ministries, our Family ministries, our Discipleship ministries, and in so many other places. These opportunities are incredible and God-sized, and we need you. Stories are waiting to be made. Stories need to be told. Never forget the Ministry Budget is the single most important fund you can give to, and it is the fuel that keeps all our ministries running.

Cross Church Family, let’s reach the world for Jesus. I believe in you and we need you!

Ben Mayes

Executive Leader of Finance and Shiloh Christian School