For the 20th consecutive year, the North American Mission Board (NAMB) of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) will relay the gospel throughout the host city for June’s SBC annual meeting in Indianapolis.
Crossover 2008 aims for eight new churches — one Hispanic, one Chinese, one black and five white — to be byproducts of the outreach, said Jimmy Kinnaird, Crossover coordinator in Alpharetta, Ga.
John Rogers, missions and evangelism team leader for the Indiana convention, said the state convention and NAMB are playing support roles for the local Crossroads Baptist Association for Crossover ’08.
"It’s their heart, their vision and their strategy," Rogers said. "When it’s locally led and locals take ownership, we think the results will be longer lasting. We see Crossover ’08 as a process, not an event. We want Crossover to be felt long after people have left Indianapolis."
Kinnaird said Crossover ’08 strategic events will include 27 block parties in black, Korean, Hispanic and white neighborhoods; door-to-door evangelism spearheaded by eight local churches; projects to fix up 10 houses in the Indianapolis area under NAMB’s World Changers ministry; repair and renovation of a school playground or local park by NAMB’s Baptist Builders ministry; and roving Intentional Community Evangelism (ICE) teams who will blanket the city’s core-city area, witnessing to those they meet on the streets during the week prior to the Crossover weekend.
Indianapolis is the 13th-largest city in the nation, with 2 million people in the metro area. Indiana has 417 Southern Baptist churches with more than 96,000 members.
For additional information about Crossover ’08 in Indianapolis, to register as a volunteer or to participate in ICE, go to www.crossover08.com. (BP)
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