E-Tools Newsletter | January 2010
January 31st, 2010Welcome to our first E-Tools Newsletter of 2010! This monthly TCC field report also includes strategic outreach resources to encourage, equip, and empower you to more effectively share the Gospel with all the loved ones in your life as we faithfully serve Christ in Canada together.
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Keeping the Cross current…through current events!
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TCC exists to equip the Church to keep the Cross current in our culture, both for the sake of the Gospel and for the salvation of the lost.
Keeping connected with current events in the news can facilitate fantastic ways to become all things to all people, so that by all means we might save some.
World Class Witnesses
First, through keeping connected with current events, God graciously allows us to become “world class witnesses” for Him who love the lost beyond just our own Jerusalem into the uttermost part of the earth. This results in a commitment to pray for the salvation of souls all around the world and for the missionaries who have been called to reach them.
It’s also been our experience that the eternal impact of becoming world class witnesses often extends beyond our personal life and witness into our family life and witness as well! For example, to keep the Cross current with current events, one of the evangelists with TCC now leads his family to set aside the first workday of every week as “Missions Monday”. This involves his children doing basic research on a country and their family taking the week to pray together for God to grant repentance to those who live there.
Conversational Common Ground
Second, through keeping connected with current events, God graciously gives us the conversational common ground we need to relate to as many people as possible in our own local mission field about the bigger matters of life, death, and eternity. The recent earthquake tragedy in Haiti continues to facilitate many such opportunities for Gospel outeach…
By now you have likely been exposed to many of the horrific images of the devastation in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, after the city was hit with a 7.0 earthquake. As local missionaries, it’s times like these that we can feel as helpless as the rest of the world in the wake of disaster.
However, in addition to continuing to pray diligently for the physical needs of all those involved in this tragedy, as per Jesus’ words in Luke 13:1-5, we have also been using this current event as conversational common ground to share the message of repentance and faith in Jesus Christ…while there is still time.
In effort to more effectively equip the Church to “normalize” evangelism with loved ones and strangers, TCC is now developing a special section of our Studio/Street Blog called “Current Events”. Here we will post field reports and audio files of our radio reps using current events in the culture as conversational common ground to lead the lost to the Cross.
We sincerely pray that these “Current Events” encounters in evangelism will serve to help you continue growing strong in your own evangelistic giftings!
TCC Radio LIVE: When sharing the Good News goes bad
TCC Radio host Cory McKenna is thanking God for “nine lives” – but not in the way you may think. Not only has He now allowed us to broadcast nine live radio shows, but He also continues to show Himself strong on our behalf…even when doing the right thing seems to go wrong.
Right: Norm Millar of Harvest Bible Chapel of London was our most recent special guest on TCC Radio LIVE
On this month’s episode of TCC Radio live, we extended the program to one full hour in hopes of helping Pastor Norm Millar and Harvest Bible Chapel of London spread the life-giving message that Christians need never be silent about the Gospel. In addition to dialoguing in the studio about various aspects of biblical life and witness, we also enjoyed another real-time Gospel conversation from the studio to the street via cell phone in a segment that we call “wireless witnessing”.
What would you do if things got tripped up by circumstances out of your control when sharing your faith?
Hear what Norm and Cory did when sharing the Good News went bad on live radio!
Our Prayer Pulse for February
Let’s continue partnering together to keep our prayer pulse for TCC and the Church in Canada strong! This month we have a praise report and TWO main prayer points that we humbly ask you, your family, and your church to remember for us in February.
Praise Report from “Urgent Ministry Need”!
In late December, Cory and The Cross Current Team sent out an important message inviting all those on our distribution list to pray about sowing into an urgent ministry need. We praise God for the faithful response of so many of our partners in the Gospel! Thanks to you, we are now in production for The Cross Current TV show after having received sufficient donations for acquiring the computer we need for video editing!
Prayer Points
Expansion & Exposure
- Expanding our ministry of equipping local churches in cities across Canada to more effectively share the Gospel message with loved ones and strangers, and
- Exposing The Cross Current Radio Show into more markets to facilitate greater Gospel preaching coverage and support for the local churches we partner with
Important Donation Information!
In response to several requests, The Cross Current has now added Automatic Funds Transfer (AFT) as another way to simply and securely give to our local missions ministry in Canada.
For more information on how your tax deductable donations can be set up to transfer automatically between your bank account and TCC, please call our office at (226) 663-1822 or email us at admin@thecrosscurrent.com.
Donate to our mission in Canada
We again thank God for you and for your ongoing partnership in preaching His Gospel in Canada.
For His Glory,
The Cross Current Team
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This Friday we’ll be broadcasting the four part series “Absolute Truth” which was actually the very first series to follow our current format. We were just one year old in April 2008 when this series last hit the airwaves so it’ll probably be new to most of our listeners this coming week.
In the studio, both Dale Elliott and Richard Spruyt of Grace FM 105.9 in London hosted
Right: Jeff Mardling breaks the sound barrier by preaching open air live for the first time in TCC Radio history!
