The CrossConnector Manifesto

CrossConnector is for people who do missions.

CrossConnector is just what people who do missions want and need, and not much else. It’s not some gigantic, complicated, feature-laden web portal with everything. A lot of fun features have been left out in favor of doing the few things really well. The tools are designed to be flexible, not rigid. You might use your trip planner and to-do list to plan your family’s next missions-vacation trip; your pastor might use it to keep track of the ten church trips to Mongolia this year.

We believe that we are called to finish the Work that Jesus started.

But I reckon my own life to be worth nothing to me; I only want to complete my mission and finish the work that the Lord Jesus gave me to do, which is to declare the Good News about the grace of God

Acts 20:24 (The Good News Translation).

‘My food,’ Jesus said to them, ‘is to obey the will of the one who sent me and to finish the work he gave me to do’

John 4:34 (The Good News Translation).

King David said to his son Solomon, ‘Be confident and determined. Start the work and don’t let anything stop you. The Lord God, whom I serve, will be with you. He will not abandon you, but he will stay with you until you finish the work to be done on his Temple’

1 Chron 28:20 (The Good News Translation).

Then [Jesus] said, ‘Go into the world. Go everywhere and announce the Message of God’s good news to one and all.’

Mark 16:15 (The Message)

We believe that people are God’s Plan A.

God did not delegate the process to people at all. He wore people as his uniforms. He came to live inside people and then lived out his wishes and will through them in a mystery called the Body of Christ. Jesus was with me all along by being in all of those who were helping me. God was using people as his Plan A.

(Dr. Henry Cloud, How People Grow)

Under his control all the different parts of the body fit together, and the whole body is held together by every joint with which it is provided. So when each separate part works as it should, the whole body grows and builds itself up through love.

Eph 4:16 (The Good News Translation)

We believe that every Christian is a missionary in one way or another.

Mission work is no longer the sole domain of professional missionaries and short-term church groups. We believe that every Christian is called to serve each other in some way, and that everyone can play some unique, important role in missions. Everyone can do missions. It can be down the street, in your own home, or in the far corners of the earth. CrossConnector provides tools for everyone to do missions, and for everyone to find their place and their calling. CrossConnector eases the entry to missions, facilitating many more people to support and participate in missions.

Each one, as a good manager of God’s different gifts, must use for the good of others the special gift he has received from God. Those who preach must preach God’s messages; those who serve must serve with the strength that God gives them, so that in all things praise may be given to God through Jesus Christ, to whom belong glory and power forever and ever. Amen.

1 Peter 4:10-11 (The Good News Translation)

We believe that missions has entered a new era.

The world is changing. We are reaching out to more people than ever in Christ’s name. There are now more missionaries than ever before, and they’re not who they used to b