The Director’s Statement

Initially the Lord put a very distinct call on Joe’s and my heart, and that was to do more than just take people on mission trips with us.  We had been taking plenty of people with us but we were not effective in bringing about eternal changes in lives.  We discovered many Christians who thought and believed that you prayed and received Christ and became instantly saved, sanctified, and made righteous—that you were immediately made into a new person.  I remember my dad preaching a sermon about how you are made new, not born new, and how the making of a Christian takes years.  God, through Scripture and in particular the Gospels, began to reveal His methods of making disciples and at the same time His methods of building the kingdom through those who were willing to commit time following Jesus, getting to know Jesus, and becoming spiritually likeminded.  The Lord’s vision was of a ministry that would take the time to guide Christians into spiritual rightness, much like Jesus did with His disciples, and then take them on mission, training them (Luke 6:40) by leading and showing them an example.  At the same time building relationships between short term evangelical teams and individuals and churches committed to the daily task of disciple making.  Little by little God has shown me how He wants to use the ministry of CrossVision as a vehicle to join U.S churches willing to go an extra step and become right with God with churches and pastors of other countries who will also become right and accept the role of disciple making.

Often times churches are willing to either go on a mission trip one time to a particular area or become focused on one particular church and spend many years going only to that church, never looking to take the gospel to all nations.  For the whole body to be at work effectively we must make available opportunities to many people through going to many locations.  One team will know that God wants them to work in Mexico while another will feel a call wanting them to work in Asia. Regardless of where they are called to work the methods of Christ do not change, and if we fail to practice Jesus’ example, we are disobedient to God.  If we make changes or try to improve Jesus’ methods we are trying to improve perfection.  I believe God would use CrossVision in the life of any person, team, or church that understand God’s call to missions and is willing to be trained in the methods established by Jesus Christ. I personally want to invite you to pray and seek God’s guidance in whether He would have you join us in the vision He has given CrossVision.

In Christ,

Hermano Glen