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Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." Matthew 22:37-40 (NIV)
Crossroads' Missions Trips
Crossroads has recently teamed with E3Partners on several exciting trips:
Medical - January 2008 ---Ecuador - More information coming soon
Medical - July 2005 Pachacutec, Peru. This was the first.
Local Missions Supported
Campus Crusade
Rich & Elizabeth Lin
Work with college students in New Jersey. Their current focus is on developing a partnership with the Chinese Christian Fellowship at Rutgers University. They primarily help students grow in their faith and help train students in evangelism and discipleship.
Harvest USA
A ministry committed to offering the hope of Jesus Christ to individuals struggling with sexual sin. Started in 1983 as an outreach to the homosexual community it has grown and expanded to equip the church in bringing the gospel to those affected by or who struggle with sexual brokenness of all types (pornography and other sexual addictions). Located in Philadelphia, PA.
ISI– International Student, Inc.
John and Aruna Desai
A ministry reaching out to share the love of Jesus to international students on the campus of Princeton University. They reach these often lonely students (who are far from their families, culture, and language) through Christian hospitality. Monthly dinners are held to bring in new students.
Young Life
Mike & Lucy Droege
Reaching urban students in the Plainfields, NJ area through what the ministry calls “Clubs”, they work to build relationships with teens sharing the love of Jesus in a non-threatening environment. One new area of focus for the ministry is Young Lives, a program reaching out to young female teens who are pregnant or already have a child and helping them with the needs they have.
Young Life
Jim Cunningham
Eastern Division Training Coordinator for the northeast region of the US. He is responsible for making sure Young Life is growing and healthy in the northeast, by recruiting, administrating and building up the next generation of Young Life staff.
Global Missions Supported
Christar
Sister M.K.
She is working with the people of Asia, sharing the love of Christ to those who do not know Him through a free medical clinic.
E3 Partners
Dave Johnson
Dave is the coordinator for E3 to Ecuador. We have partnered with him on our last three short term mission trips to Ecuador (including the Jan 07 medical mission trip) and will continue to with future trips to the area.
New Hope International
The ministry began with smuggling Bibles into Eastern Europe in the 1970’s. It now works to equip local Christians to spread the Word of God through partnerships with national teams. They train, support and administer in many churches and even public schools in the Ukraine, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Czech Republic and the Republic of Moldova.
Nepal Ebenezer Bible College
The college is a ministry of the National Churches Fellowship of Nepal. NCFN is the largest coalition of indigenous churches in Nepal and is a member of the World Evangelical Fellowship and Evangelical Fellowship of Asia. The college was established in 1992 with a vision to train Nepali church leaders to equip them to teach, preach and to live according to the Word of God.
Navigators
Ron and Lelah Kanour
They are missionaries in the Raleigh/Durham area bringing the love of Christ to those who have not heard. Other responsibilities include helping pastor’s and churches equip members to bring others to Christ, give direction for growth of the ministry in the area, equip and train staff and informal missionaries in other parts of the U.S. and world, and to provide supervision, mentoring and coaching to Navigator staff and stakeholders in the southeast region of the U.S.
AIDS - World Vision
We are currently working to join a program called Operation Hope done by World Vision, a highly respected Christian Humanitarian charity. This program brings education, economic development, and humanitarian aid to African villages decimated by AIDS.
While both of the following mission works are relatively close by we have placed them in our Global category as they reach a demographic that is “worlds away” culturally. We have been blessed in the NY area that we do not always need to go out to the world as the world has come to us. Also, we want to make church planting, particularly within our denomination, a high priority. These are both works of Mission to the World (MTW), the mission agency of the Presbyterian Church of America (PCA).
PCA Church Planter in Queens, NYC
Aung Lai Matu
Is a religious and political refugee from Myanmar (formally Burma). He has long been a church leader in Myanmar but has recently been exiled to the US due to a change in the Burmese government. He is starting a church in Queens that will minister to the 70,000+ members of the New York Metro area’s Hindu and Buddhist population.
PCA Church Planter in New York City
Jim & Lois Romaine
Are twenty year veteran missionaries and church planter to the Muslims in Turkey. He plans to start a church reaching Muslims in the NYC Metro area and use those relational contacts to influence Muslims in “closed” countries the world over.