WHITE CROSS PURPOSE STATEMENT
The Touch Global White Cross Program provides the Evangelical Free Church of America the opportunity to be involved in ministries of compassion through projects that:
*Use one’s God-given skills and resources to further kingdom work
*Give an effective infrastructure to help those in need
*Provide the opportunity to encourage our missionaries and our national partners
*Encourage those in our churches to better understand and pray for brothers and sisters around the world
*Promote the church planting efforts of the EFCA Reach Global
*Provide tangible expressions of God’s love to the world
WESTCHESTER E-FREE CHURCH
Our Meeting Schedule
First Thursday of Each Month
10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Bring a sack lunch. Coffee, tea and dessert are furnished. Special devotions and prayers for missionaries are a fundamental part of our program. Join us for a time of mission work and fellowship.
Our Beginning
It was the drip, drip, drip of water from the scatter rugs in the Missionary’s home in inland China, that reached way across the Pacific ocean into the very hearts and minds of Mrs. David Jacobson and several other dear sisters at the Evangelical Free Church of Chicago. It was those drip, drip, drips of water that spoke loudly of the poor housing conditions for the missionaries. How could they win souls for the Lord if their health was impaired? Little do we think of little drops of water ever causing a spark, and those sparks becoming a flame. But it did! Those sparks became a flame that led to the building of a missionary home for these dear missionaries in China and thus created the Women’s Missionary Society of the Evangelical Free Church of America.
That was in 1908. It wasn’t until thirty long years later, when that spark caught on for Iowa to organize in 1938. It was through two dear sisters, Mrs. Milton (now Mrs. Eugene Wernberg) and Mrs. Victor Carlson, President of the Minnesota District, who came traveling to various churches in Iowa, over bumpy, mud frozen roads in a little Ford Coupe, that the Women’s Missionary Society of Iowa was organized in Boone, Iowa.
There are some things that can be counted, and we can certainly say with the Psalmist; “Many, O Lord, my God are Thy wonderful works which Thou has done, and thy thoughts are to us-ward…if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered,” Psalm 40:5. The souls that have been won for the Lord can never be numbered; nor can the labors of love by our missionaries around the world. We may rejoice that it is our joy and privilege to have a share.
Items like membership and financial income can be measured. Others cannot – items such as prayers for lost souls and prayers that have sustained our missionaries over these years. 54 National Projects have affected missions here and abroad. We cannot fully understand how God has used each of these but what a joy to have a part in His work.
Your investments, whether it’s your time, gifts, prayers, shares, or labor of love are really worth it all when we think of the thousands who have been won for Christ. May we realize the great responsibilities that are still ours to the “Untold missions – yet untold.”
Our responsibilities are great, and our response should be likewise, May we respond as the Lord would have us to, and labor for Him until He comes.
