Archive for March, 2018
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.
Grow Your Life and Ministry: A Prayer Magazine, Church Prayer Leaders Network, and Direct Access to Prayer Resources
Can you imagine the ministry of the National Day of Prayer with a quarterly prayer magazine, a church prayer leaders network, and the ability to provide access to prayer resources at your fingertips?
This is now a reality because the National Day of Prayer Task Force recently accepted the gift to our ministry of Prayer Connect magazine, the Church Prayer Leaders Network, and PrayerShop Publishing. They will broaden the scope of the National Day of Prayer beyond a single day, helping us mobilize Americans to pray daily for our nation, our communities, and our churches.
Believing This Could Be Our Greatest Year
For 30 years, the National Day of Prayer Task Force has been at the forefront of raising up prayer for our nation on the first Thursday of May. As we approach another National Day of Prayer, we are again hard at work mobilizing, motivating, and equipping millions of people to pray for our nation. This year’s theme, “Unity,” has struck a nerve, and we suspect that we will have our largest participation ever on Thursday, May 3, 2018.
Clearly, it has never been more important for Christians to pray fervently for revival in the Church and a spiritual awakening in America as it is today. But, as important as that is, rallying people to pray one day a year is not enough. We need to equip, motivate, and mobilize believers to pray for America.
We need to raise up an army of believers who will pray for their churches, their communities, and their nation. This will broaden the scope of the National Day of Prayer beyond a single day, helping us mobilize Americans to pray for our nation, our communities, and our churches.
3 Important Ways You Can Join Our Everyday Prayer Army – Do It Today!
1. Sign up to receive Prayer Connect magazine — the voice of the prayer movement in America
This quarterly publication will equip, challenge, and motivate you to pray with more passion and focus. It will help you motivate others as well. Only $24.99 per year, Prayer Connect will keep you connected to all that God is doing through prayer in America. Simply go to https://prayerleader.com/membership to sign up. Purchase the Gold Membership to get online access to more than 450 articles and ideas from past issues, and a new issue of Prayer Connect will come to your mailbox every three months.
We plan to provide all manner of helps and inspiration in this publication to keep you passionately focused on knowing how to pray for yourself more effectively, but also your church, community, and nation. This publication will keep us all praying in a unified way every day in between our National Days of Prayer!
2. Pastors and Church Prayer Leaders — Join Our Church Prayer Leaders Network
If you are a pastor or church prayer leader, you need to sign up for more than just Prayer Connect. You need a membership in the Church Prayer Leaders Network (CPLN). This network will help you disciple, motivate, and mobilize your congregation to pray. As a member, you not only receive Prayer Connect magazine, but you also get the following:
- Access to more than 700 articles and ideas at com, many of which relate to growing prayer in the local church. Check out a sample article: The Benefits of Praying Together.
- “Prayer Leader Online,” an email that comes twice a month with ideas and encouragement on growing prayer in your church.
- An additional discount on resources at prayershop.org.
- A private Facebook Group just for members where you can talk shop and receive advice and ideas from other members who, like you, are in the trenches of growing prayer in the local church.
A CPLN membership is only $35.99 per year. Go to https://prayerleader.com/membership to sign up. Click on Platinum Membership.
3. Check Out our PrayerShop Publishing Store — Be Equipped
Finally, I encourage you to check out PrayerShop Publishing’s store, prayershop.org. Here you will find more than 150 resources to help you and your church grow in prayer. I asked them to give you a special deal the first time you shop there. Use code “welcome25” at checkout and receive a 25% discount off your first order.
These new ministries are part of our desire to raise up a praying church across this nation. Will you join with us? Together, let’s cry out to God for revival and awakening in America.
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.