Chance to Make a Difference!

 

December 16, 2023

Dear Friends,

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

The start of a new year is a time to review the previous one and refocus on the meaning and direction of life.

Let’s begin with the twelve-day feast of the Nativity — Christmas brought Christ to us; our main job ever since has been to bring Christ to the world.

At the Crossroads Initiative, our core mission since 1988 has been to share the gospel of Jesus Christ and the fullness of the Catholic tradition through all forms of media: TV, radio, internet, social media, print, and this year, for the first time, film!

(Below: Image from Triumph of the Heart, new film on the passion of St. Maximilian Kolbe.)

Here’s a few highlights of our work in 2023:

• Our website has been visited by 2,000 people per day.
• I was invited by Fr. Mike Schmitz to do a keynote for the Bible in a Year retreat in February 2023.
• In collaboration with Dr. Edward Sri and Jeff Cavins, I flew to Turkey, France, and England to record an exciting new study on the Catechism of Catholic Church to be released by Ascension Press in 2025
• I wrote an e-book on the Mass for the Eucharistic revival that we’ve given away for free to thousands
• The Crossroads Initiative was a major investor in the new film on St. Maximilian Kolbe shot in Warsaw this Fall (scheduled for 2025 release – see https://www.triumphoftheheart.com/)

Below: Dr. Italy in front of Canterbury Cathedral in England, film shoot for Catechism study series)

The challenge for us has been that many of these important services are provided either for nominal thank-you gifts or for free. We subsidize them largely through live speaking events and pilgrimages. This year violence in the Holy Land caused two of our Holy Land pilgrimages to be cancelled, which has severely impacted our budget.

We had just recovered from the pandemic, during which we had to lay off staff and give up our office. We are fighting at this time not to let the misfortune with the pilgrimages push us backwards, stopping the forward progress of our mission.

Will you please help us now to recover from this blow and seek to maintain and even expand our work? As partners in our Crossroads ministry, we depend on you in a very special way.

How You Can Help

The thing we need most is pledged, recurring support to help us to pay monthly bills. We are looking for 100 people to pledge a dollar a day for the gospel, or $30/month ($120/quarter or $360 per year).

For those who can’t afford this, we are looking for 500 people to pledge $10/month or $120 per year. I hope you can find at least $10 per month to help us keep proclaiming God’s word.

Many would prefer to make a one-time gift. Of course, we would appreciate that greatly!

You can find instructions for making a pledge or gift below, but if you’d like to donate online, you can simply click here.

If you would like to donate over the phone, you can call our toll-free number: 800-803-0118 (this number only receives messages, so please leave your phone number when calling, and a Crossroads staff member will return your call).

If you would prefer to send a check, please make it out to:

Crossroads Productions, Inc.

and mail to:

Crossroads Productions
2412 Hunters Run
Flower Mound, Texas 75028

Crossroads Productions, Inc (parent company of Crossroads Initiative) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit public charity. All donations are tax deductable to the extent of the law.

May Christ Our Light make 2024 a new Year of Hope and Peace!

Faithfully in Christ, the Light of the World,

Marcellino D’Ambrosio (“Dr. Italy”)

and the Crossroads Initiative Team!

P.S. Please pray for us and that peace would be restored to the land of Christ’s birth.

(Pictured left to right: Rowena Ignacio, Marcellino D’Ambrosio, Susan D’Ambrosio, Jean Ann Kirwin)