Crossover ’09 aims for ‘lasting impact’
Published: June 20, 2009
The famed 135-year-old Churchill Downs-home of the Kentucky Derby-will be among the ministry venues as Southern Baptists engage in Crossover Louisville '09.
Now in its 21st year, Crossover is an evangelistic thrust to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ the week before the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting in each year's host city.
Crossover Louisville '09 will kick off with Intentional Community Evangelism (ICE) Sun., June 14, and will culminate the June 19-20 weekend prior to the June 23-24 SBC annual meeting at the Kentucky Exposition Center. Crossover is jointly sponsored by SBC's North American Mission Board, the Kentucky Baptist Convention, Long Run Baptist Association, Kentucky Woman's Missionary Union and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
"Our objective is to share Jesus and have a lasting impact on metro Louisville," said Charles Barnes, longtime Baptist lay leader in Louisville, retired banking executive and chairman of the Crossover Louisville '09 steering committee.
Barnes said the Long Run Baptist Association includes some 160 Southern Baptist churches, and about 40 of them will participate in 32 block parties in various Louisville neighborhoods. Five churches will band together for a single block party in Veterans Park in the Louisville suburb of Jeffersontown.
Hundreds of Southern Baptist volunteers from around the nation are expected to come to Louisville to support Crossover events-the block parties, an international fair featuring nine different ethnic groups, a separate Hispanic fair and door-to-door evangelism by ICE (Intentional Community Evangelism) team volunteers from NAMB and across the country.
Since Crossover originated, more than 41,000 individuals have prayed to receive Christ.
For information, go to http://www.crossoverlouisville.com.
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Crossover ’09 aims for ‘lasting impact’
Published: June 20, 2009
The Kentucky Derby will become a ministry venue for this year's Southern Baptist Convention.
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