Chance to Make a Difference!

December 16, 2021

Dear friends,

The pandemic has changed life for all of us! Who never thought the uncertainty and the disorientation would have lasted this long? We have been praying for you and your families during this wild and crazy time.

During these many months of disruption, we’ve been working harder than ever at the core ministry of the Crossroads Initiative – to share the gospel of Jesus Christ and the fullness of the Catholic tradition to the world through all forms of media.

Since the initial lockdown in March 2020, we’ve actually expanded our work to rally the troops. We’ve done this through our website, which receives thousands of visits per day, special Facebook Live, Zoom and YouTube talks and rosary sessions, through weekly radio and TV.

This ministry is more important to people now than ever, given the discouraging and confusing times we are in.

The challenge for us has been that these important services are provided for free. We subsidize them largely through live speaking events and pilgrimages, which were all canceled for 2020. The pandemic destroyed 70% of our ministry income for 2020 and kept us grounded for the first quarter of 2021. Thanks to loans and to generous friends like you, we were able to keep the lights on and the website up until live events and pilgrimages resumed this past summer.

Still, to stay afloat we had to lay off staff in 2021, including the executive director of our outreach to millennials, Catholic Creatives. We also had to move out of our office. Those who remain on staff are working from home part-time.

We now need to repay some outstanding loans and rebuild our staff.

For all who have helped this ministry in the past, we are deeply grateful. Will you please help us again now in this hour of extraordinary need?

The thing we need most is pledged, recurring support to help us to pay monthly bills. We are looking for 100 more 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 feed people with the Word of God.

Many would prefer to make a one-time gift. Of course, we would appreciate that greatly! This will help us pay off outstanding loans and bills.

Whatever you are able to give, consider it a Christmas gift to the one whose birthday we are preparing to celebrate. It is his greatest desire that more and more people hear the good news of the Father’s love.

As a token of our gratitude, we will send all who pledge at least $10/week or make a $120 one-time contribution an autographed copy of my forthcoming book on what it means to be Catholic – What We Believe – the Beauty of the Catholic Faith, from Ascension Press (available in the first half of 2022). Reading it will bring you closer to the only one who can heal and renew our families, our church, and our country at this critical moment. He is the one who is “the reason for the season.”

With appreciation, I join the staff and volunteers of the Crossroads Initiative in wishing you a very Merry Christmas!!

Faithfully in Christ, the coming King,

Marcellino D’Ambrosio (“Dr. Italy”)

Director of the Crossroads Initiative

800.803.0118

www.DrItaly.com

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Crossroads Productions

2412 Hunters Run

Flower Mound, TX 75028

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