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Missions

The Missions ministry exists to promote and cultivate the hearts of our congregation to desire to see Christ’s church expanding globally. We seek to partnership financially and through prayer with missionaries around the world who are actively pursuing church planting. Moreover, the ministry promotes and plans short term mission trips to encourage and help the missionaries we support. It is the ministry’s desire to enlighten the people of the church through the sending and the going of both long term and short term missionaries, and to keep the church informed through regular updates and by inviting missionaries to come and speak with us. Currently, we support missionaries and works in South Asia, Europe, Africa, South America, and North America.

 

Partnerships

One of the unique features of Crossroads' Missions ministry is its commitment to work in partnership with indigenous ministries in foreign countries. We believe that the national leaders of these nations know best what needs exist, and how best to meet those needs, and we seek to come alongside these leaders and their ministries in a supportive role. This support looks like finances, resourcing, strategic planning, and sending short-term teams.  Crossroads supports many Mission to the World (MTW) missionaries, but also works in cooperation with a number of U.S.-based missions organizations. Some of these include the West Africa Partnership (WAP) and DBI Partnership - serving works in West Africa and North India respectively.
 
 
 

Oversight & Relationships

Crossroads is serious not only about financial, but relational support for its missionaries. It is somewhat easy to cut a check, but it requires a deeper concern to engage in encouraging, praying for, and visiting our missionaries. We want to know what is happening on the field, and encourage our misssionaries to keep open and honest communication with us. We seek to do the same. Other ways in which we build relationships with those we support include helping to bring missionaries to us for updates, visits, and times of refreshing. We believe we have as much if not more to gain as a church in our relationships with missionaries on the field than they have to gain from us - and we seek to build a real bond of trust and encouragement with each missionary we stand behind.

 

Sending & Supporting

We believe God calls some to go, and others to send, and sometimes calls us to do both. As a church, we seek to send our own, and to support those who go out from among us. This is why missions is a large part of our annual budget, and also explains why we make an effort to visit our current missionaries in ways that they find useful and effective through short-term trips or pastoral visits. We also have the joy of seeing various members of Crossroads serving on various fields.  

 

The Dillons: Scott & Meghan Dillon sensed a call to serve the Quechua people in Peru following several short-term trips with Crossroads. They have been on the field, serving with MTW for several years, and are seeking to build relationships for the gospel among the little-reached Quechua of Huaraz. Keep up with the Dillons in Peru at their ministry blog here.  

 

 

Short-Term Teams: Crossroads has a strategy when it comes to short-term mission trips: go where we're needed, have relationships, and can make a difference. This is why most of our trips are to places where we have missionaries serving already, or where we are in strategic partnership with existing ministries. We believe that short-term trips also serve the purpose of exposing people to the larger vision of global missions, and help unite us with our brothers and sisters in other lands as part of one Church. The 2010 short-term trip is to Togo, West Africa - a vision and construction trip which will serve to strengthen the church in Togo under the leadership of New Harvest Mission International and WAP. 

 

We have a committed and passionate Missions Committee that oversees the various aspects of missions ministry at Crossroads, including organization of short-term trips, correspondence with missionaries, conducting of missions conferences, and hosting visiting missionaries.

If you have any desire in getting involved with this ministry, or want to know more about what we do, please contact Chris Roe at missions@crossroadsfamily.com.