SBC's Crossover Event Hits North Carolina Cities' Streets This Weekend
by Allie Martin
June 9, 2006
(AgapePress) - - Southern Baptist churches throughout central North Carolina are taking the gospel to the streets through a variety of activities and events this weekend. Nearly 90 churches and more than 2,000 volunteers will take part in the evangelistic effort known as Crossover Triad.The series of events will target Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point -- areas known collectively as "the Triad" -- tomorrow and Sunday, the weekend before the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting in Greensboro. Marty Dupree, Crossover coordinator for North Carolina, calls this occasion "a great opportunity" with the potential to affect hundreds of thousands of lives.
"About 1.8 million people live in the Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point area," Dupree says, "and out of that 1.8 million, over 650,000 people are unchurched. So we really are trying to focus on and target those unchurched and unreached people with these different events and the different venues."
The spokesman for Crossover says this wide-scale evangelistic outreach is being sponsored by the North American Mission Board in cooperation with the Baptist state conventions and associations and local churches. "The different venues that we have," he notes, "are things like prayer walking and prayer journeys, sports evangelism, inner-city evangelism."
Other events include block parties, witnessing by college students on local campuses, and "kindness" projects, Dupree adds. The kindness events are "servanthood evangelism projects" where volunteers "meet a need or give away water bottles, that type of thing," he explains.
Crossover Triad 2006 is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, June 10-11, in the Triad metropolitan area. Organizers have been encouraging Baptists to get involved by committing to the outreach as a volunteer, a host church, or a prayer partner, and with thousands responding, the event series promises to be a major success.
Allie Martin, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
