By now you have likely seen at least some of the horrific news footage of the devastation unfolding in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, after the city was hit with a 7.0 earthquake. It is estimated that the death toll could be in the tens of thousands.

This afternoon my heart was breaking as I watched a video update of a terrified little girl who was desperately crying for her mother and father as she lay trapped under the wreckage. The reporter made sure to share that sending a Bible through a crack in the rock was one of the first “lifelines” extended. We pray that God will show Himself strong on her behalf.

While we thank God for ALL the relief workers who are sacrificing themselves to help bring various forms of relief and rescue to the Haitian people, I would also humbly draw your attention to one particular missions organization that God has been using powefully in Haiti for a number of years called Mission Possible (MP).

MP President, Kurt Bishop, candidly shares his heart as follows:

“This is a very tragic time for Haiti. Mission Possible is doing everything we can within the limitations of communications and the scale of disaster.”

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, with God there is always hope. Please click here to visit and bookmark MP’s site and begin to pray for rescue, relief, and repentance of all those involved with this terrible tragedy.

In Him,

Cory

This brief posting will provide you with strategic points of prayer that we thank you in advance for lifting up to the Lord on our behalf this month.

On Saturday, January 2nd, our core ministry team came together for our annual prayer and planning meeting. More results of the meeting will be reflected here on our online ministry calendar in the weeks to come.  In the meantime, here is where we sense God is leading our ministry in 2010, based on our mission as a ministry.

Here is the mission of TCC:

His Gospel. His Gifts. His Glory.

The Cross Current (TCC) is a local missions ministry and outreach broadcast bringing glory to God’s Name in Canada by unifying His Church in His Gospel and helping pastors equip all Christians under their care to be His witnesses everyday, everywhere, to everyone, as one body serving in accordance with the various gifts He has given each.

Everything we spend our time, talents, and treasures taking part in this year will directly contribute to this mission. Conversely, time is of the essence, and we will not be doing things that fail to contribute directly to this mission.

Our main ministry goals for 2010 are as follows:

1. Prayer as Priority 1
2. Secure Home Base (London)
3. Donor Development (Cross Carriers)
4. Expansion & Exposure
5. The Cross Current Television Program Production
6. Ministry Development
7. Stabilize all things web

Thank you in advance for your prayer support! Please also click here to find out more about praying with and for The Cross Current.

Welcome to our new E-Tools Newsletter! 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.

“Open Airwaves” Preaching for Christmas!

For His Glory,

The Cross Current Team

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Welcome to your Listener’s Resources for our special series on Islam as heard on The Cross Current Radio Show!

These simple outreach resources will allow you to witness to your loved ones using the same basic tools that our field reps use throughout the production of each radio series.

Islam Series – January 2010 | Producer’s Notes & Listener’s Script

Follow the simple download instructions below to access these TCC Radio outreach resources. We pray they will help you make the most of reaching out to adherents of what’s said to be the fastest growing religion in the world today.

Islam Series – Producer’s Notes (To download: just right-click and “Save as”)

Producer’s Notes presented by: Kevin Lane – TCC Radio writer & producer

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Islam Series – Listener’s Script (To download: simply click, save, and print)

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Dear partners in the gospel:

On behalf of our family and the ministry team of The Cross Current, we wish you and your loved ones a very Merry Christmas and a joyous holiday season!

The McKenna’s (l to r: Caleb, Cory, Dawn, and Joshua)

We would greatly appreciate you printing off this blog posting and placing the above picture of our family in your Bible or on your fridge as a constant reminder that we need your prayer. Please pray that God will continue protecting and providing for our family and ministry as we faithfully step out onto the local mission field again this year.

I again personally thank God for you and for your partnership with us! Let’s look forward to another exciting year of working together to make His Name great in Canada.

For His Glory,

Cory McKenna (Founder) & The Cross Current Team

TCC Radio has officially gone LIVE for Christmas!

This past Friday December 4th, “Captain” Dale Elliott of 105.9 Grace FM welcomed in the studio TCC founder Cory McKenna and special guest Donna Feica of Harvest Bible Chapel London.

Click here to listen to a 3-minute “teaser” of this TCC Radio LIVE! show! (Note: The entire episode will soon be available on www.tccradio.com)

Left: Donna Feica of Harvest Bible Chapel London joins Cory McKenna and “Captain” Dale Elliott in the studio of Grace FM this past Friday.

This special series is called “Giving the Greatest Gift” and our goal is to help Christians keep the Cross current and keep the Christ in Christmas with family, friends, and the community this holiday season.

Right: Cory McKenna goes “wireless witnessing” during the second segment of our LIVE program this past Friday night.

In addition to enjoying great, Gospel-focused conversation together about personal evangelism, TCC Rep Chris Wood also contacted a young man named Daniel who gladly took part in our “wireless witnessing” encounter. During this segment of the show, we share the Gospel with a stranger on the street via cell phone!

Left: TCC Rep Chris Wood enjoys a hot drink with Daniel; this week’s “wireless witnessing” guest on TCC Radio LIVE!

Make sure to tune in to our broadcast or podcast this coming Friday December 11th as we report live onsite at Victoria Park in London at the Harvest Bible Chapel GO Team hosts our hometown to a special Christmas outreach. This evangelistic event will include caroling, gift-giveaways, and even a live, open air preaching message!

You can also click here to access your very own TCC Radio Listener’s Resources. These simple outreach resources have been specially designed by our production team to help you witness to your loved ones using the same basic tools our field reps use throughout the production of each radio series.

Please also be praying that the Lord opens the hearts and minds of all those who will hear the Gospel message throughout this most wonderful time of year for witnessing!

Welcome to your TCC Radio Listener’s Resources!  These simple outreach resources will allow you to witness to your loved ones using the same basic tools that our field reps use throughout the production of each radio series.

Christmas 2009 | Listener’s Script & Gospel Audio Tracts

Follow the simple download instructions below to access these TCC Radio outreach resources. We pray they will help you make the most of this most wonderful time of year for witnessing!

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Listener’s Script (To download: simply click, save, and print)

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Gospel Audio Tracts (To download: just right-click and “Save as”)

“All We Want for Christmas” – Part 1

“All We Want for Christmas” – Part 2

“All We Want for Christmas” – Part 3

“Happy Birthday to you…Happy Birthday to you…Happy Birthday dear Chucky and Origin of Species…<dramatic pause>…Happy Birthday to you!”

Did you know that 2010 marks the anniversary of a double birthday? This year is the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin and the 150th birthday of his book, Origin of Species. In fact, in addition to the outreach resource discussed in this posting,  if you want to pick up a fantastic documentary and witnessing tool on the subject, I encourage you to visit the homepage of Creation Ministries International and buy the video called “Darwin: The Voyage That Shook the World”. Our friends at CMI have definitely succeeded in putting together a very accurate and gracious autobiographical tool on one of the most enigmatic figures of the last couple hundred years!

However, tomorrow afternoon, we’re really getting “Origin Into Schools”. TCC and the Harvest Bible Chapel of London Gospel Outreach “GO” Team will be crashing the gates of the University of Western Ontario armed with origin/worldview scripts, Bibles, and free (”Gospelized”) copies of Chuck Darwin’s Origin of Species books. Wait! Before you log off our blog, rest assured that this is no unique complementary copy of the classic…and this is no unique outreach either!

Please take a moment to watch this promo video on “Origin Into Schools” with Kirk Cameron of Living Waters.

Now, while the video mainly focuses on schools south of the border, I trust you all know that things are just as bad or worse across our home and native land! That’s why we’re asking you to partner with us in prayer tomorrow and all this coming week.

Will you set aside time from 12pm to 4pm tomorrow to pray for our Gospel outreach team and all the other outreach teams across North America who will partnering together to preach the truth on university and colleges campuses? As you may or may not know, the “free speech zones” that our American brothers and sisters in Christ enjoy while preaching the Gospel at schools are not quite as common or accessible in Canada. That’s just one of the many reasons why we need your prayer! As we always say at TCC: “If you pray without witnessing you’re a hypocrite. If you witness without praying you’re a lunatic. The battle is won in the prayer time!”

I also encourage you to check back to this blog often for more news and updates as the Canadian “Origins into Schools” initiative unfolds.

Finally, please take full advantage of the following resources for finding common conversational ground in the origins issue as you share the Gospel with all those in your personal relationships and beyond!

TCC Radio series | “What On Earth Is Going On?”

CMI article | “Hitting the Nail on the Head”

Partners in the Gospel,

Cory

Our team is TOTALLY STOKED about our trip to the Together for the Gospel Conference on April 13 – 15, 2010 in Louisville, Kentucky! What better place for our little army of Gospel preachers to sharpen our swords for a few days?

Here’s where their website says that we’re headed together at this conference:

The (Unadjusted) Gospel. That’s a topic worth thinking about for several days with several thousand other pastors and church leaders. Don’t you think?

The good news does not adjust. It’s always the same and it’s always good. Jesus Christ, who is the same yesterday, today, and forever proclaims a message that’s the same yesterday, today, and forever.  So should we.

We hope you will join us in Louisville April 2010 to think about that message and why it’s the heart of ministry.

Amen! We have to continue defending and confirming the unchanging truth of the Gospel that those who have gone before us have died to preach!

Are you interested in coming together for the Gospel in April 2010? This conference only happens every two years…so please consider joining us! You never know…maybe…just maybe…we’ll spill out onto the streets of Louisville afterward to see the power of our foolish preaching in action!

Click here to register for the 2010 conference

Click here to access audio from the speakers of 2008

Partners in the Gospel,

Cory

Before God our faith is declared, before man our faith is demonstrated. Halloween is a wonderful night to express conviction without compromise. A night where death and suffering are animated especially among our young with a celebration mentality of all that is opposed to God’s  purpose and plan for our lives.  In a radically tolerant climate of this evening I pray that we might repudiate error with truth by Gods word in a humble loving manner. I know I need a reminder sometimes of something I have recently learned and that is, what makes are witness more effective is sharing out of our brokenness and not out of our judgement .

Seeking and Saving

Thomas Woodburn