Vision
A vision provides a real and visual expression to the scripturally-motivated mission. How do we glorify God among the people groups of the world? Crossover’s vision is to assist and accelerate church planting movements among the people groups of Eurasia. In 1995, only six evangelical missionaries were known to be in the country of Moldova, the small country between Romania and the Ukraine. Crossover began the first phase of fulfilling its vision with Mission Moldova. Our goal was to plant five churches by 2000. When we planted six, we knew Crossover needed to expand its vision.
That led to Mission Black Sea in 2000, a plan for 100 new churches established in the people groups of the seven Eurasian countries surrounding the Black Sea: Moldova, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Romania, Russia, Georgia, and Turkey. In 2003, Crossover sent long-term cross-cultural workers to our second targeted people group within the least-reached country on the Black Sea. More missionaries, both American and Brazilian, followed. By the end of 2004, Crossover started over 20 new churches. By 2008, this goal was accomplished with 85 churches in Moldova and 15 churches in Siberia.
2009 brought a new phase to Crossover’s vision called Mission Ends of the Earth. This expansion of our work is not defined geographically but rather by the need to reach people who have never had the opportunity to hear the Gospel message of Jesus Christ. We seek to take the lessons we have learned from planting 100 churches in the Black Sea area and utilize them throughout central and southern Asia where an overwhelming number of unreached peoples live. Most of them live in poor areas of the world with great political instability and restricted access for foreign missionaries. Despite these difficulties, the greatest challenge to establishing church planting movements is accessibility. Being able to get in, stay in, and sink in to their lands and cultures.