Grace and peace, everyone.
I’m Randy Scott and have been connected to The Cross Current (TCC) for well over a decade. I, with my wife MaryLou, have also been worshipping with Winona Gospel Church in Stoney Creek for the past few years after moving to Grimsby, Ontario.
Enter the EETN
Over the past year I’ve been privileged to be serving with a new ministry of TCC called the Equipping Evangelists Training Network, or the EETN. This niche ministry invites us like-minded and experienced disciple-makers in evangelism to connect, lean on, and leverage the strengths and testimonies of others in the group.
Our EETN core leaders team kicked off this new year by meeting to discuss how we can equip our wider membership base by example to train our own home churches more meaningfully in evangelism, and pioneer a new local missions event to gather, unite, encourage, and train average Christians to step out in faith and share Jesus and His message of hope (the Gospel 😊) with the lost in our community. I’ll be looking forward to helping host TCC’s very first Gospel Unity Mission late this March in partnership with several faithful local churches.
Equipping Entire Churches
My hope for the EETN is that we create more opportunities to equip others within our own home churches. My prayer is that each one of us represents Christ humbly, effectively & accurately. By modelling someone who loves, follows, abides in Christ, we can hopefully attract others to the realization that we’ve been saved for a reason. I believe that this reason is simply to preach the Gospel to the lost and to disciple those within the family of God.
None of us are born with a confidence and skill to share Jesus Christ, but the EETN is a community where the individual with a heart to equip others to share the Gospel can further develop that desire and ability. We all know that we have not been called to indifference and that we have not been saved to simply add Jesus to our lives, but that He saved us to use us in the lives of others; both the saved and the not-yet-saved (better than saying the lost).
How Can You Pray for Us?
Often an evangelist feels isolated and over-whelmed as the call to ‘make disciples’ of all nations (Matt. 28:18-20) is daunting. We can vary easily have the mindset that we need to do more, speak to more people, engage more of the body for assistance, etc. etc. BUT we really need to be reminded that this is God’s work. He will build His Church and the gates of hell will not prevail (Matt. 16:18). Please pray for strength for the work of ministry, that we never move ahead of the Holy Spirit, that we stay humble in this journey and that we get out of our own way.
I pray, and I hope you will too, that every Church in North America recognizes their evangelists, supports them and integrates them into their weekly church activities. May Canada and beyond hear the saving news of Our King!
Unashamed of the gospel (Romans 1:16),
Randy Scott is a Missionary Evangelist with The Cross Current and core leader with the EETN. Having spent his entire career in the corporate world, Randy has extensive personal experience in sharing his faith in everyday life with family, friends, and work associates. Randy and his wife MaryLou have two grown children, Tyler and Merisa (married to Nathan), and live in Grimsby, Ontario.
- Please pray for God to unify our EETN trainers, partner churches, and all participants as we complete TCC’s first Gospel Unity Mission together.
- Please pray for the development of the Gospel Unity Plan we’ll be launching later this year in partnership with pastors/leaders and their local churches.
- Please pray for our upcoming Burlington Gospel Gala to be filled with supporters, church leaders, and evangelists who partner in the gospel with us.