Jody Cross

First Baptist Church Simpsonville, South Carolina
Jody Cross

009361-Cross,Tim
Compassion Ministry Catalyst
Clemson South Carolina
First Baptist Church Simpsonville
June 12
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About My Family

I 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., I heard God’s call to remain in North Carolina to start a ministry to newly arriving refugees relocating to America. In May 2009, I joined the North American Mission Board. I helped to resettle more than 600 refugees from Burma, Iraq, Iran, and Bhutan to the Piedmont Triad area of North Carolina.

In August 2016, I relocated the ministry, Open Arms Refugee Ministries, to Greenville, South Carolina, to minister to and share Christ with refugees being resettled there. I currently live near Clemson, South Carolina, helping refugees from Afghanistan, Rwanda, and Latin American nations. I help connect Clemson students to refugee ministry.

About My Ministry

God has worked in many exciting ways over the past 17 years. I have been blessed to help resettle more than 600 refugees to our community and have seen dozens of refugees find true hope in Jesus, accept Him, and be baptized. We helped to start a church among Karenni refugees in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. I saw the ordination of the first Karenni pastor in the United States, from our home church, 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. In 2017, we expanded our ministry to upstate South Carolina to begin mobilizing and training local believers and churches, as well as Clemson students, to become involved in ministry to refugee families.

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Jody Cross

Ministry Fund ID 009361-Cross,Tim
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Pray

Please pray for me as I continue ministering in the midst of personal struggles. Pray that God receives the glory and many will come to faith. Pray for more partners to come alongside me. Pray that our current refugee families would assimilate to life in the U.S. but, more important, desire a personal relationship with Jesus. Pray for more believers and churches to join us in loving refugees in the name of Jesus.

Participate

There are many opportunities to partner with me in ministry. We are always looking for teams in the Clemson area made up of 8–12 people who are interested in “adopting” a newly arriving family. These good neighbor teams become a community for refugee families and walk beside them as they assimilate. I need new toiletry items and household goods for newly arriving refugee families.
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Fund ID: 009361-Cross,Tim
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