We at Create the Crossover have a greater message than simply telling students what NOT to do after prom; we want to inspire young lives to imagine what they COULD be a part of on that amazing weekend!

What if Create the Crossover offered High School Seniors an alternative to the stereotypical prom weekend; something that was way more exciting, a lot more fun with friends, and filled with memories that would last a lifetime?

Check out an amazing opportunity that Seniors from Hudson County New Jersey are taking:

4 High School Seniors, taking the money and days off they would have used for prom weekend to go to the Dominican Republic and work with orphanages and an elderly home. Amazing right!! Now imagine if this idea spreads, and all the amazing things God could do to share the love of Jesus around the world.

3 HUGE Ways You Can Be Involved:

-Post this Video on your Facebook page and spread the word!

-Tell someone specifically who you think would be a good person to skip their prom in the future to come with us to the DR! (maybe that person is you : )

-Donate to help these students financially cover the cost of their trip. This 8 day trip will cost each of them $900, and these guys are working hard to earn the money. Your gift can help them make it! DONATE HERE

How did you like the pre-prom assembly today? I hope you were inspired to realize that you can live your life for something so much bigger than drugs and alcohol, and that you can start living that way TODAY!

Thank you so much for accepting my challenge to watch these two short videos. Get ready to watch one of the most powerful videos you will ever see:

Remember I told you about a project that would begin changing your life TONIGHT, and allow you to help save lives around the world? Here is The X-Fund:

Ready to live for something bigger and more satisfying than using drugs, getting drunk, and giving yourself away sexually? You can put your first coin away tonight, you can find your mentor this weekend to collect them, and you can join us in saving lives around the globe.

Want to know more? Visit this link: THEX-FUND.COM

Here are 3 ways you can get involved in what we are doing to save lives around the globe from poverty and injustice, all while changing lives right in our own communities:

1. Sign up for our email updates: On the right side of this webpage you can sign up to receive our email updates. This way you’ll know every time we have an event or project that you can be involved with!

2. Follow us on Facebook: Don’t check your email much? Click on this link to follow us on Facebook! Create the Crossover on Facebook.

3. Check out CreatetheCrossover.com: Take a look around our site and see how you can get involved. Contact us on the top of this page and let us know what you think!

Hope to hear from you soon!

There are people who can dribble WAY better than me!!

Visit DetailsoftheGame.com for more instructional basketball videos from Sizzla, Occh, and Chris Paul!

Sam Sisley is a good friend of mine with a website called DetailsoftheGame.com. Details of the Game is a completely free site filled with instructional basketball videos to make the serious basketball player better. Best of all, just like Create the Crossover, Details of the Game is dedicated to help saving lives around the world.

BUT HOW DO FREE BASKETBALL VIDEOS SAVE LIVES?

Think about it: how much money do FREE sites like Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Yahoo make? Millions! Big-time companies pay big bucks to advertise on these sites. Why? Because people like you make them popular every day.

Now imagine a free basketball site that had thousands of visitors daily, yet donated all the money it made to help save lives around the world. YOU have the power to make  Details of the Game huge!

ARE YOU SERIOUS ABOUT BECOMING A GREAT BASKETBALL PLAYER?

DO YOU KNOW OTHERS WHO WANT TO IMPROVE THEIR GAME?

WOULD YOU LIKE TO HELP SAVE LIVES AROUND THE WORLD?

Visit DETAILSOFTHE GAME.COM

How does this video make you feel? Angry? Upset? Disgusted? It should. One thing I have noticed about the topic of child prostitution is that it moves almost EVERYONE. The conscience God has placed in our hearts screams with anger and hurt at this degree of injustice.

How badly would these little girls want a chance to be free? Imagine if they had the chance to start over. What would they give for an opportunity to say they had never been raped before? What if they could have their virginity back and have the choice to live pure each day? They’d do anything to have that chance right??

SO WHAT THE X-FUND ASKS IS THIS QUESTION:

If these girls would do ANYTHING to have a chance to be sexually pure, and we get so hurt that these horrific men steal their purity from them, THEN WHY DOES OUR CULTURE TELL US TO THROW OURS RIGHT AWAY??

Think about it: What does TV tell you to do with your sexuality? Magazines? Movies? MUSIC??? Have sex with as many people as you want, as many times as you can. And what is our culture’s view on abstinence? Think about how the word “virgin” is typically used. It’s in the context of a joke, or making fun of someone right? But what about after watching this video? What would these girls think of being a ”virgin?” Is the idea of being innocent such a joke any more?

You see, these girls have no chance to save the priceless gift of their sexuality because their purity is stolen from them daily. We have every chance to be pure (WE GET TO CHOOSE!) and our culture tells us to give it right away.

So what if we offered you the chance to be a part of a project that is inspiring people around the world to save sex for something greater than the cheap, temporary pleasure our society tells us to live for? AND what if this same effort rescued children from sex slavery so they could have the same chance to live pure?

What if YOUR PURITY could offer THEM the chance to be PURE?

This is the Vision of the X-Fund: It is an opportunity for YOU to help save lives from sex trafficking around the world by YOU living a life that is sexually pure. If you join this project, whether you are still a virgin or not, your purity from this day forward CAN and WILL help rescue children from sex slavery. How?

Check out this link to begin today: HOW CAN I START?

But that’s impossible right?

We invite you to join us for The 30 Hour Famine:

Think that you not eating for 30 hours could inspire the people in your life to do something about global starvation? Ready to serve people in your own community and live for something bigger than you?

3 specific ways you can join the 30 Hour Famine:

1. Join our 30 Hour Famine at Fairview Gospel Church this weekend! If you are in the North Jersey/New York City area, we’d love to have you join us! Check out the Facebook invitation HERE.

2. Help set up your own 30 Hour Famine with your church, group, or family. Visit 30HOURFAMINE.org to set up your own weekend!

3. Educate yourself and others on the staggering facts on world hunger.

-Spread the word by sharing the 30 hour Famine video everywhere!

-Read the sobering statistics on world hunger on 30hourfamine.org HERE.

James, the half brother of Jesus, said it well:

“If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace, be warmed and filled,’ without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?” James 2:15-16 ESV

Jesus gave up the glories of heaven to go to a cross to save our souls. Thank God that we can give up our small comforts to save lives around the world!

This Valentine’s Day, Ball for Lives invites you to take the focus off of yourself and offer the love of Jesus Christ to those who are suffering most around the world. Check out this extremely powerful video:

“Imagine what you can do”

We at Ball for Lives take those words very seriously! We believe that this issue has the power to inspire people to begin living for something bigger than themselves.  Check out what we will be doing this Valentine’s Day!

4 ways we invite you to join us in saving lives this Valentine’s Day:

1. Join The X-Fund!! In this project, your life can literally save lives daily! If you haven’t heard about The X-Fund yet, check out another VERY powerful and inspiring video here: The Vision of the X-Fund

2. Once you have joined the X-Fund yourself, you can take this Valentine’s Day to be a voice for these precious children. Whether you want to put on a dinner to spread the word like we are or simply tell your boyfriend or girlfriend about the project, you can use this Valentine’s day to help make the X-Fund huge and rescue more lives from slavery!

3. Spread the videos, stories, and vision of Love 146 everywhere. Educate yourself and be moved by this incredible organization at Love146.org

4. If you are in the North Jersey/NYC area, come to our X-Fund Valentine’s Day Dinner! For more information, check out our Facebook Invite.

As Paul said in I Corinthians 13, “Love does not seek it’s own.”

A teacher talent show? Immediately the thought popped into my mind: Why not dribble to music?!! I had never done it before and had no clue how I was going to do it. But the thought turned into a vision, and soon the vision turned into action.

So after about 10 hours of choreographing (never thought I would hear myself say that!) the dribbling to the music, it was time to perform. A sellout crowd of 500 kids that see me in the hallways everyday, students I had grown to love over the past 4 years, packed the Memorial High School auditorium. Needless to say I was nervous!!

My arms were shaking, and my stomach was completely in knots. I remember standing behind the closed curtain praying, telling the Lord it was all for him. As my name was announced and the curtain opened, the kids went crazy, having no clue what this white substitute teacher was going to do with a basketball in his hand.

As the ball hit the floor, I think 500 jaws simultaneously dropped. Even more than the dribbling itself, these kids were shocked that it was “Mr. O” doing it. I had a talent the world didn’t know about, and all this time it was hidden from people who saw me everyday. As the music ended and the curtain closed, the place erupted, and I experienced an incredible satisfaction of knowing that God had done, and began, something amazing in my life.

This video is a performance I did about a year later at my school. Two years later I’m doing motivational assemblies all over the country, motivating people to live for something amazing, something so much bigger than themselves.

The God who created me and gave my talent to dribble, is the same Person who “Created the Crossover” within me. He started something in my life that allowed me to “live for something bigger than myself.”

Want to know what He has done in my life, and what He wants to do in yours? Check out my story in our video post:

THE REAL CROSSOVER

1. Become a fan on Facebook of Create the Crossover and sign up for our email updates (on right) so you can stay updated on helping us put on future events!

2. Become a fan of 4-One on Facebook and visit their website 4-One.org. Spread what they are doing all over!

3. If you are not from MHS, contact 4-One and invite them to come to your school! help us bring this event to your school!

4. Find out what 4-One is really all about:

5. If  you liked this video, help spread it everywhere by posting it on your Facebook page!

Much more coming soon. Thank you again to everyone who made this event huge!