An estimated 2,000 Southern Baptist volunteers will join forces for “Crossover San Antonio” prior to the Southern Baptist Convention’s June 12-13 annual meeting.
Crossover – now in its 19th year – officially is June 9-10 and will be a comprehensive campaign to reach a significant segment of San Antonio’s unchurched population, said Don Smith, national Crossover coordinator for the North American Mission Board.
NAMB is jointly sponsoring Crossover San Antonio with the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention, the Baptist General Convention of Texas and San Antonio Baptist Association.
During the week and weekend leading up to the SBC’s annual meeting, volunteers representing dozens of SBC churches in San Antonio and around the nation will take the gospel of Jesus Christ to the streets, parks and plazas of San Antonio, a city of some 1.8 million people and the second-largest city in Texas. About 60 percent of the population is Hispanic.
Despite a rich religious history, four out of five San Antonio residents do not attend church regularly and two-thirds have no church affiliation, according to Charles Price, director of missions for the San Antonio Baptist Association, which consists of 259 churches and missions.
“We pray that God will give us an infusion of new believers into our churches and that we would be able to start three or four new churches as a result of Crossover,” Price said.