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This Week at Cross Church | Palm Sunday and Easter
Palm Sunday is This Sunday, March 25
This Sunday is Palm Sunday! We will worship, we will preach God’s Word, and we will observe the Lord’s Supper. This time of special communion is always a dynamic, moving experience. Prayerfully on this Palm Sunday, we will also see our other ordinance observed, baptism. Sunday begins the official countdown to Easter Weekend on March 31 – April 1. Begin the countdown with us!
14 Worship Services on Easter Weekend at Cross Church
We want you to discover a time to for you, your family, your friends, and the people you invite to come to Cross Church on Easter Weekend, March 31 – April 1. Please choose a service on the campus you regularly attend and bring others with you. Invite, invite, and invite more people to Easter Weekend. We have fourteen worship services in less than twenty-four hours on our four campuses. Here is a list of our services on a graphic you can download to share via email, text, and social media.
*Click graphic to enlarge and download.
Let me remind each of us, nothing replaces the power of a personal one-on-one invitation. Do all you can and let’s pray for a fantastic Easter Weekend.
Before Easter Weekend… We Have Easter in the Community
Easter in the Community is a powerful way to spread the gospel throughout our community when we might not otherwise have the opportunity. If you would like more information or would like to get involved, contact our church offices at 479-751-4523 or easter@crosschurch.com.
Three Important Financial Opportunities This Month
There are three important financial opportunities for us to support this month. They are:
- Ministry Budget giving: where we give our first tenth and more of all God has entrusted to us. This is PRIORITY #1.
- Easter Offering for North American Missions: our support with 51,000 other Southern Baptist Convention churches to help fund our 5,000+ missionaries in North America, as well as church planting and evangelism efforts in America.
- Reaching Our Mission offering: what we challenge our people to give to over and above our first tenth offering to our Ministry Budget. This funds our Cross Church School of Ministry, Church Planting and Missionary Support, Feed the 479 and Blessing Baskets, and new gospel opportunities in Northwest Arkansas. Our goal is $600,000 before April 30, and presently we are about $170,000 short of this goal. Please make a special gift, and let’s reach this goal.
Pray for Cross Church
Please join us in prayer for Cross Church. Daily, you can pray on your own. Weekly, you can pray privately through our Cross Church Circle Prayer Ministry or corporately in one of our worship services. Whether you are with family or friends and prayer occurs, please join us in praying for our church. The needs are great. Join us in this moment like never before. We must seize the day!
See You on Palm Sunday,
Ronnie W. Floyd
Dr. Ronnie Floyd is the President & CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee.
This Week at Cross Church | Spring is Here!
Stay Engaged During Spring Break
Many of our families will begin a break from school schedules beginning this weekend. Therefore, the next two Sundays are what we call Spring Break Sundays. Take the challenge: Stay engaged during Spring Break. How?
- If you are home, be in worship on Sunday
- Engage online with us if you are away
- Practice generosity with your church, whether you are here or away
The ministry of Cross Church goes forward whether you are away or here during Spring Break. Pray for us.
14 Worship Services on Easter Weekend
Cross Church has a huge opportunity on Easter Weekend, March 31-April 1, with fourteen worship services to choose from across our campuses. Plan now to join us in one of the services on the campus you attend. We believe this could lead us to a powerful, engaging weekend of worship with Cross Church. Pray for Easter Weekend! Please download the graphic below that informs everyone about each campus and the worship service times.
Remain Focused on Our Financial Goal by the End of 2020
As I shared with our church last year, we have four major goals we want to see happen in our church by the end of 2020. Our financial goal is to eliminate all financial debt! We are an estimated $10 million from this happening, and when it does, we will have a value of $125 million in properties and facilities. When this debt is eliminated, we will free up no less than $3.2 million annually that we can allocate toward future advancement of our mission in Northwest Arkansas, America, and the world. To reach this goal, we must achieve these things:
- Meet and exceed our Ministry Budget annually
- Fayetteville Campus reaches or exceeds their commitments in their new campus development, while also meeting their Ministry Budget
These can and are happening. Pray with us about these needs, as budget drives the debt down on a weekly basis, but also for a miracle gift or gifts that can help or eliminate debt now. God can do anything!
Pray for the National Day of Prayer on May 3, 2018
Please pray each day for the National Day of Prayer across America on Thursday, May 3, 2018. Thousands upon thousands of gatherings will occur in all kinds of settings from sunrise in Maine all the way to sunset in Hawaii. Engage in a National Day of Prayer observance in the city you live in or even create one to engage more people in praying for America. Do all you can now to pray for and support the National Day of Prayer.
Please Pray for Jeana and Me
Over the next few weeks, Jeana and I will be experiencing the blessing of God with leadership entrusted to us here and away. Please pray for us. Our greatest love in ministry is our ministry at Cross Church, where leadership never takes a vacation. Just one example: for 31 years, nine months of the year, Jeana has and still meets with our entire group of Ministry Staff Team wives. Wow! Faithfulness. This is in addition to leading a Bible Study in our community and other responsibilities at church and at home. In July, we will be taking no less than 100 of our people to Israel for ten days. We will walk through Easter weekend here, then lead our 2018 Mega Metro Pastors and Wives Conference in April in Washington, DC, and then Jeana accompanies me again to our nation’s capital city for five days in May to lead and forward the National Day of Prayer. Therefore, when Easter begins, we enter one of these unique seasons of opportunity in praying for grace, power, and provision. Our greatest need today is knowing you are interceding for us in prayer. God is at work! We follow Him fully! Stand with us in prayer!
Now is the Time to Lead and to Pray,
Dr. Ronnie Floyd
Dr. Ronnie Floyd is the President & CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee.