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This Week at Cross Church: Reaching Northwest Arkansas, America, and the World through Prayer, Planting, and Giving
Pray for us Monday and Tuesday
On Monday evening and Tuesday morning, I will be meeting with 177 other pastors from 26 states for the purpose of serious prayer and intercession, asking God for revival and awakening in the lives of pastors, churches, and our nation. It is a tremendous blessing, but an enormous challenge to lead and facilitate this gathering. Cross Church Family, will you pray for me? I must be able to listen to God and move our gathering to where He desires us to go. I would also ask you to pray for our gathering. I listed seven ways you can pray for us here.
Don’t Miss Sunday
This Sunday, we will continue our “Praying With Power” series. You do not want to miss it. Along with our new Cross Church Circle ministry kicking off next week, I am expecting God to do great things in the prayer life of Cross Church.
Send North America and Church Planting
Jeana and I hosted the North American Mission Board’s Send North America Church Planting Conference this week in Boston, MA. What an amazing city! Pastors and their wives from 24 churches listened as we shared the vision. It is apparent the Lord is working, as we saw several Pastors commit to become partner churches. We started the Send North America movement in the fall of 2012, targeting 32 key cities. Can you believe, we started the conference this week with commitments to 26 cities and ended the week with commitments to 30 cities, all within a year! Isn’t God good? Continue to pray for this tremendous vision.
We also had an opportunity to visit Aaron and Kathy Werner, our church planters in Portland, Maine. We were able to tour the city with them and see possible site options for Cross Church Scarborough, Maine. They shared their vision for reaching the Portland area for Christ. It is incredible to see how this young couple has already entrenched themselves into this community in the very short time they have been there. Everywhere they go and everyone they meet, they see an opportunity to share.
New Ministry Budget Launches October 1
We saw God do great things in the life of Cross Church this past year. It was made possible by your obedience and generosity. At our Annual Business Meeting a few weeks ago, Cross Church approved our God-sized budget for 2013-14 with a goal of $16,780,000. We all need to help meet this challenge, and as we do, we will see what God can do at Cross Church over the next year. Each time you give, you are helping further our mission of reaching Northwest Arkansas, America, and the World for Jesus Christ.
Yours for the Great Commission,
Ronnie W. Floyd
Dr. Ronnie Floyd is the President & CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee.
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
Dr. Ronnie Floyd is the President & CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee.