I got a message a few days ago asking us if we'd left Crosspointe. This friend had noticed that I'd been attending Source Church and was curious if we'd left Crosspointe.
The answer is NO!!! Definitely not! We are Crosspointe people-- that's our family.
We have been staying out in Manteo this trip and the 3.5 hour commute to Crosspointe each Sunday might take a toll... so we're being loved on by another great community of people in Manteo for the majority of time we are here. Hope that makes sense.
I just wanted to take a moment to publicly thank our Crosspointe family, once again for continuing to support and love us well. Our lives have been somewhat turbulent in the past few years since moving to Haiti, and Crosspointe has never wavered in their support-- (financial, emotional, spiritual) even when we felt like we were wavering.
You guys are the bomb. In case you're a member of the Crosspointe family and you're not really sure how your tithes and offerings support our family, let me share just a bit--
- First-- Crosspointe provides our family with significant regular financial support. You are our sending church and your support accounts for almost 50% of our monthly family budget.
- Second-- special gifts. Over the years Crosspointe has SPOILED us with great computers and electronics, cool family presents and cash to love on our family well during holidays and furloughs. I am writing to you today on my laptop that was a gift from Crosspointe. I have a Wii in my car with 4 controllers that was a Christmas gift from Crosspointe to our family!!!
- Third-- HEALTH. Crosspointe has always been committed to helping our family be healthy for service. Always. Since the beginning you have helped coordinated and foot the bill for the extensive counseling, debriefing, therapy that we've needed to keep our wits about us on this really weird life journey we're on. This has been the most significant blessing I can think of. Through crazy life events and trauma, Crosspointe has been there for us... coming along side of us. When we were going crazy, you sent friends down to be with us... to live with us and sit with us. When our kids needed to evacuate the country after the earthquake, you spent significant time and money to make that happen, even though it seemed a logistical impossibility.
Thank you, Crosspointe family, for giving sacrificially so that we can be sent out so well-resourced.
We will be around a few Sundays at Crosspointe (as well as for one of the Christmas Eve services) before this is all said and done. So I hope I get to see you all, to hug your necks and thank you in person. But if not, I don't want it not said so let me very intentionally say thank you.
Thank you for loving us.
Thank you for walking with us.
Thank you for steering us towards life, health, and, most importantly, JESUS.
