Help Get the Cruciano’s to Africa (& Bali)!
The Cruciano family is headed back to Jeffreys Bay, and has a special side mission - joining the International Gathering in Indonesia in July.
What goes on in Jeffreys Bay each year?
While in South Africa, we will be reconnecting with the fellow CS staffers, and it is an international crossroads for visiting surfers and ministry leaders. We will also be serving locally and with our partner ministries.
Personally, we’ve grown to love spending our summers there (even thought it’s actually southern hemisphere winter). We reconnect with old friends, our church, and the kids of course love their time there as well.
It is a major blessing that we do not take for granted!
Why are you adding Bali?
This will be an exciting time of connection for current and upcoming ministry leaders. We are expecting 250+ global leaders to attend the gathering, which makes in the largest we’ve had since the pre-COVID days. It will also be the first time we’ve ever attended with our entire family.
We have the added benefit of connecting with our “sending” church, Atlantic Shores alumni, who are in the mission field in Indonesia. So it’s only a short hop from Bali to their neck of the woods, will be great to see them in their local environment after following along in their journey for the last 20 years. Can’t publish their name here, but if you know you know!
How much does it cost?
We’ve got 2 sets of airfares to do - getting to JBay and then the additional round-trip to Bali. Not too bad as a single but everything is multiplied 4x in our family! There is also a vehicle rental while in South Africa, and registration to the Bali Gathering. The total works out to nearly $14k for all of this - yikes - but God has faithfully come through each year through our amazing support team.
Goal
$13,980
Raised to Date
$9,108
Would you prayerfully consider sponsoring 50, 100, or 500 miles?
Our total expenses are roughly equivalent to the distance from North Carolina to South Africa to Bali, so our theme here is to “sponsor a mile” of our journey! Actual miles from our house in Kill Devil Hills, NC, to our home in Jeffreys Bay to Bali is 13,980 mi as the crow flies (that would be one tired crow, haha).