CROSSOVERroad's Mission

CROSSOVERroad's mission is to spread, explain, display, share, demonstrate, and cover the audience with God's Love. It is to help nonbelievers understand that there is, indeed, a God, and that He does, indeed, love them--so much so that He gave His only begotten Son in a most horrifying, horrendous, and horrific way, all to prove that He is God, He exists, He is love, and He loves them, despite any and all sins they have committed. Most non-believers either think they have no sin ("I'm a good person!"), or they think their sin is far too bad to expect that God, or anyone else, for that matter, could forgive them--one extreme to the other. But neither of these is the Truth. God is the Truth, and He loves us no matter what, even before we have asked for His forgiveness, or for His love, or for Him to come into our lives.

CROSSOVERroad's mission is also to "preach to the choir." Of course, all of us who are Christians want to bring the unchurched to the Lord; it's the Great Commission; it's what Jesus has asked us to do, and we want to do that. But we have heard SO many stories about people coming to the Lord--people who have been church-goers all their lives; Sunday school teachers; even ministers. They go through the motions, and they feel everything is all right--until one weekend at a retreat, or a concert, or a camp meeting, or a trip to Panama--when they REALLY got saved! Many, many people "of the church" are still in need of someone to help them be what they're meant to be, to help them get where they are going. Often, groups like us are told we shouldn't be "preaching to the choir; go out there and get the unchurched!" We know we need to do both.

CROSSOVERroad's mission is to receive the blessing and the message ourselves. None of us has "arrived." We're still green and growing. "You're either green and growing, or you're ripe and rotting." (Thank you, Cheri Meadows.) We are always green and growing, unless we've stopped breathing. Standing up on the stage in front of an audience, telling stories in song, is something we often need in our own walk, both as a group and as individuals. Sometimes, as a musician, you can learn a song that is so neat, and then maybe the 150th time you sing it, you "get it"--or maybe it gets you! There are so many times when one or more of us gets emotional over a song, even though we've performed it countless times before. It's just a God-thing. Our mission is to use the talents the Lord has given us for His glory. Many of us have been singing and playing for many, many years now, and most of that time was spent in other venues, performing secular music. Now is our time to give back.