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

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.”

“Imagine what you can do”

As terribly sad as the issue of child sex trafficking is, we cannot simply respond to these videos by shedding our tears. Our anger and hurt must result in action. But you are probably thinking, “What could I possibly do?”

If you read our post, The Vision of The X-Fund, we told you that your sexual purity could rescue girls and boys around the world from prostitution. Now we’d like to share with you exactly how your life can do just that!

THE 3 STEPS OF THE X-FUND

STEP 1: Every day you save yourself sexually, you put away a coin-quarter, dime, nickel-whatever coin you decide. Doing this, you will begin to recognize and value your purity. As coins begin to add up, you will see just how much each day is combining to become something big! At this stage you also must define what purity is. As Christians, we consider purity something much greater than just not having sex. We also strive to be pure in what we what we think and look at.

STEP 2: Find a Mentor who will collect your change weekly. Who is someone in your life that you trust? Someone who is older and wiser; someone you know loves and cares about you? Ask that person to collect your coins weekly-it will specifically help you in overcoming temptation in 2 specific ways:

–When you give your 7 coins to your mentor, what would he/she say? GOOD JOB!! How many of us have someone in our life consistently telling us GOOD JOB for staying sexually pure? I would say not many. Yet with the X-Fund, each week you can be encouraged by your mentor.

–Now let’s say I only give my mentor 6 coins one week. What does that mean? It means I messed up, and I am confessing it to someone who genuinely cares about me. How many of us go to someone we care about to admit when we’ve made a mistake? AND how many times does someone say “ok, I won’t mess up again!” Then they make one mistake, and they feel like they have to go back to their old lifestyle. With the X-Fund, you make a mistake, and you put a coin away the very next day. One mistake doesn’t negate the other 6 days of purity.

STEP 3: At the end of each month, your mentor takes your coins (that represent your purity) and donates them to Ball for Lives. We then add your coins together with the coins of people across the country who are living sexually pure just like you are. And where does all the money go? To organizations like Love146 that are rescuing child prostitutes.

YOUR PURITY OFFERING THEM A CHANCE TO BE PURE!

As Christians, we believe Jesus died on the cross and rose from the dead for our sins so that we could offer freedom to others. We invite you to join us! We encourage you to put that first coin away tonight.

Create the Crossover is all about the idea that life can be lived for something much bigger than ourselves. When people live life for something big, they don’t do the things that will destroy their lives: drugs, alcohol, tobacco, etc. What are the things you want to change in your life? Do you ever feel like you just can’t overcome these things? You have a choice: you can keep trying to change yourself, or you can choose to live for something bigger than you and allow that vision to change you. Ball for Lives is an effort that is so much bigger than me and my one life. May it always be an example of people living for something big!

So what do you think “the bigger” is? What could YOU live life for?? We at Ball for Lives know exactly what we are living for. If you want to know more about our motivation, check out this video:

The Real Crossover

Leave a comment below and let us know what you think!

Check out these Open Run pics!

Over 50 students and faculty participated in the Open Run

8 boys teams and 3 girls teams competed for the right to play with 4-One at the Main Event

Most of the Boys Varsity basketball team participated, and 6 played in the Main Event

After 2 hours of playing on the 2 side courts, the elimination round on the main court begins!

The boys tournament had blowouts, upsets, and some very close games

Want this kind of tournament at your school? Remember, a group of students at Memorial brought 4-One to their school. You can do the same!

Contact 4-One on their website: 4-One.org

The students at Providence Academy for Student Success were an awesome crowd!

As much as you guys loved the dribbling, I hope you learned about what AIDS is doing in Africa, and even more, I hope you were inspired to do something big with your life, your talents, and your abilities. Check out our other videos, leave comments on our site, and help us Create the Crossover in communities around the world! Thanks for a great day!

Live for something bigger than yourself!!!

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At DribbletheWorld.com you’ve seen people who care enough about saving lives that they’re willing to dribble 26.2 miles in major cities across America. Now, we’re taking or message to the masses.

Create the Crossover begins with a presentation, and ends with an invitation to become a part of a movement that will change the world forever. It’s an opportunity for everyone who hears our message to leave a life that’s average and ordinary, and enter into an adventure that’s sweeping the globe.

Take a look around the site and help us Create the Crossover!