009361-Cross,Tim
Evangelism Catalyst
First Baptist Church Simpsonville
June 12
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About My Family
Tim, Jody and their three children, Zachary, Emma, and Zoe served for eight years in Europe with the International Mission Board, ministering to refugees and asylum seekers from the 10/40 Window. After a year-long furlough in the U.S., Tim and Jody heard God's call to remain in North Carolina to start a ministry to newly arriving refugees relocating to America. In May 2009, Tim and Jody joined the North American Mission Board. They helped to resettle more than 600 refugees from Burma, Iraq, Iran and Bhutan to the Piedmont Triad area of North Carolina. In August 2016, the Crosses relocated the ministry, Open Arms Refugee Ministries, to Greenville, S.C., to minister to and share Christ with refugees who are being resettled in South Carolina.
About My Ministry
God has worked in many exciting ways over the past seven years. We have been blessed to help resettle more than 600 refugees to our community. We have seen dozens of refugees find their true hope in Jesus, accept Him and be baptized. We have helped to start a church among Karenni refugees in Winston Salem, N.C. We saw the ordination of the first Karenni pastor in the United States out of our home church of Calvary Baptist. We formed a youth group/choir made up of more than 60 Karenni refugee students whom we have taken on missions trips across the United States. We organized a summer camp of 150 Karenni teenagers at Camp Caraway in Asheboro, N.C. In 2017, we expanded our ministry to upstate South Carolina to begin mobilizing and training local believers and churches to become involved in ministry to refugee families.
