{"id":39914,"date":"2021-05-18T10:25:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T15:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mbcpathway.com\/?p=39914"},"modified":"2021-05-17T15:29:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T20:29:44","slug":"altered-for-pandemic-crossover-evangelism-event-will-precede-sbc-annual-meeting-in-nashville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbcpathway.com\/2021\/05\/18\/altered-for-pandemic-crossover-evangelism-event-will-precede-sbc-annual-meeting-in-nashville\/","title":{"rendered":"Altered for pandemic, Crossover evangelism event will precede SBC annual meeting in Nashville"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASHVILLE (BP) \u2013 <\/b>For more than 30 years, Southern Baptists have focused on working together to serve and reach those in the host city of the SBC annual meeting through an evangelism emphasis called Crossover.<\/span><\/p>\n

This year\u2019s approach in Nashville will differ from previous years, but Southern Baptists are cooperating to help churches in Middle Tennessee minister to their communities.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCrossover will continue its legacy of pushing back spiritual darkness in the SBC host city, which is, this year, the great city of Nashville,\u201d said Randy Davis, executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board (TBMB). \u201cCrossover will be two days when local Middle Tennessee churches will intentionally engage their communities in various ways, actually putting the \u2018Gospel above all.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In a typical year for Crossover, mission teams and churches from across the nation are encouraged to participate in a wide variety of outreach efforts, but concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic led the TBMB and the North American Mission Board (NAMB) to focus primarily on aiding churches in and around Nashville to reach out to their communities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nashville-area churches are encouraged to conduct a special outreach event on Saturday, June 12, to invite neighbors to church, and then follow it up the next day, Sunday, June 13, with a Who\u2019s Your One emphasis where churches across Middle Tennessee present the Gospel clearly and invite people to respond during their Sunday services.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are working diligently to see that Crossover will be a success even in the midst of a pandemic,\u201d said Roc Collins, director of evangelism at the TBMB. \u201cWe recently offered training events for more than 50 churches in the Greater Nashville area.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Those training events were conducted in cooperation with members of NAMB\u2019s evangelism team as well as associational leaders as NAMB, the TBMB and the local associations have been encouraging churches to work together.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very appreciate of our southern Baptist convention partnerships, between the state convention, NAMB and the local association all working together on Crossover,\u201d said Rusty Sumrall, executive director of the Nashville Baptist Association. \u201cWe have five different associations here in Middle Tennessee working with the state convention and NAMB, and that\u2019s pretty exciting to see all those folks working together for one purpose in Crossover and to see God do something positive during that weekend.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As with every Crossover event, all six Southern Baptist seminaries are invited to send seminary students for a week-long evangelism intensive where they will spend their mornings in the classroom before going out to serve local churches in the Nashville area in going door to door in their communities. Tom Johnston, senior professor of evangelism at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, said that 100 students will participate in this year\u2019s annual Crossover Seminary Evangelism Class (CSEC).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a fun-filled time, a spiritually-taxing time, as well as a true spiritual high \u2013 all mixed together,\u201d Johnston said. \u201cPlease be in prayer for this year\u2019s students, faculty, local churches and the people with whom we will share the Gospel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

NAMB\u2019s Send Relief medical and dental units will be in Nashville as well to serve those in need who could use the free medical and dental check-ups offered by professionals who will volunteer their time. The location where the units will set up has yet to be determined.<\/span><\/p>\n

Churches in the Nashville area can register to participate in Crossover at namb.net\/crossover.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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