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The Witness:
The
Easter Cross Witness (ECW) was created to give disciples of Jesus
Christ an opportunity
during the Easter Season to witness to the
Risen Christ. A cross is placed blank side out on Palm Sunday and
is turned on Resurrection Sunday to declare, “He is Risen…And
It is Finished! The Easter Cross Witness was created to be a witness;
not yard art or an Easter decoration. The Easter Cross Witness gives
a visual witness that prayerfully creates opportunities for a verbal
witness. The Holy Spirit has used the ECW to draw many to the Lord.
It is a powerful community witness with over twenty denominations
participating in 2008.
- The
ECW is a way a church can enlist all of its members to be missionaries
in the communities and neighborhoods that God
has placed them in.
- The
ECW gives believers a tangible witnessing tool to express
their faith during Holy Week. It is the prayer
that the silent witness
of the crosses placed in yards will give opportunity
for a verbal witness. Many have come to faith or have begun
a journey
that
could lead their heart to the foot of the cross.
- Each
cross is distributed with a prayer sheet (prayer sheet
attached).
- As
thousands of crosses go up in your community, this emboldens
the timid to participate. Many have expressed this witness
got them over
the hump to share the hope that is within them with their
neighbors for the first time.
- Neighbors
discover new family members who live close by as the crosses
demark the homes others
who rejoice in the resurrection of Jesus
Christ.
- The
ECW binds the body of Christ together as churches of all denominations
gather together under the cross
in unity. We are better together.
- 24
denominations have participated to date.
- The
official witness runs from Palm Sunday until the week after Easter.
- Crosses
are $4/cross and come in boxes of fifty, twenty-five,
or ten.
- Prayer
sheet & stake
attached.
“Expect
great things from God; attempt great things for God.”
William
Carey 1792
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