By Staff CROSSOVER Ahead of the Annual Meeting and Pastors Conference, Southern Baptists are set to gather for Crossover in Birmingham, Alabama, on Saturday, June 8, to blitz the city with the Gospel of Jesus Christ with the goal of visiting 20,000 homes. The metropolitan population is 1 million people, with 2 million living within 30 minutes of the city. A hub church in each of seven associations in and around Birmingham will serve as a base of operations, according toSammy Gilbreath, Alabama Baptists' state director of evangelism. He told the Alabama Baptist it will be an opportunity to present the Gospel to an area that is very unchurched. "While we have a lot of churches -- 3,280 in Alabama Baptist life -- there are a lot of people, a huge population in metro Birmingham, that are not connected to any church," he explained. "Not only are we getting the opportunity to knock on 20,000 doors, it's giving us an event that provides an opportunity to train our own people in the state of Alabama to do this in their own communities." But Crossover is an opportunity for other Southern Baptists to learn and do evangelism as well. Preston Nix, professor of evangelism and evangelistic preaching atthe New Orleans Baptist Theological … [Read more...]