The Vision

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God has given CrossVision a very distinct vision—to be a helper to those churches that desire to lead effective short term mission trips but just do not know how to get started.  The vision begins with having John 15:1-17 attitudes and simply remaining in the vine and allowing Him to flow through us. Over several years, God has continually adjusted and added to the vision, but the vision was born from much prayer and specifically two prayers: the first prayer is “God please choose to use each of us individually and all of us united in the lives of others,” and the second prayer is “God surround this ministry with those whose lives you have truly changed.”  These prayers remain at the forefront of our knee time and we find ourselves content in the Lord.

 

The vision is fueled by being patient and waiting on God to lead us into the path of churches that He has chosen, rather than focusing on the promotion or advertisement of the ministry.  The goal of the vision is to guide teams into a discipleship experience with Christ that will change their lives forever while changing other’s lives by introducing them to Christ through salvation.  In addition, CrossVision strives to connect local U.S. churches with bodies of believers (churches, pastors, and missionaries) in the field who will commit to the follow up and discipleship of those indigenous people who teams lead to the Lord through salvation, thus fulfilling the Great Commission.

 

The application of the vision is made through one purpose, supported by seven disciplines of mission’s ministry.  The purpose is that of drawing men into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, as commanded by the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20).  The seven disciplines that support this purpose is as follows:

1.      Be flexible and allow Jesus to take complete sovereign control (Isaiah 40:10-11,  Jude 4)

2.      Practice obedience to the Holy Spirit (John 14: 15-21)

3.      Make Jesus the example (John 14:12-13)

4.      Make prayer the foundation (Phil 4:6-7)

5.      Spiritually prepare every team member (1 Pet 1:13)

6.      Put on the Armor of God (Eph 6:10-18)

7.      Point everything and everyone to Jesus (John 8:12, 16:33)

 

The confirmation of the vision comes when individual lives are truly changed—some through salvation, others through experiencing Christ in a fresh, new way.  The whole life of the church is affected because when a team is supported by the whole church, the entire body becomes involved in the team’s lives, and they become an important part of the trip by praying, giving, encouraging, commissioning, sending, and then celebrating upon return, giving praise and glory to God.  When the whole church body starts to work together to reach others for Christ at home, in the state, and both nationally and globally, Acts 1:8 is fulfilled and the vision is further confirmed.  Confirmation of the vision is completed when those that were ministered and witnessed to on the mission field are eternally affected as well, and God uses a team of lay people in a foreign land to lead the lost to saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, to revive a discouraged church, and to remobilize a body of believers to become the disciple makers that God would have them to be.