My Hearts Desire is to Help Teenagers and Young Adults Who are on the Wrong Path

My name is Brian Cross and I have been blessed to be the vessel that God has chosen to open both a Church and Youth Center in every major city in order to fulfill the destiny that my personal Lord and Savior Jesus Christ had planned for me before I was even born.  Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns or you are in need of help with a teenager that is on the wrong path.  My mission is to through preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ, teaching teenagers and young adults about how Jesus Christ expects for us to live our lives, how to build a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, through one-on-one mentoring/counseling,, and also building a firm foundation of Christianity in their lives while showing them that Jesus Christ is the only person that will never leave them or forsake them.  I have dedicated the rest of my life as long as I have breath to helping teenagers and young adults that are on the wrong path to become college graduates, productive citizens, and world changers.  The Back on Track Youth and Young Adult Ministries was created in order to get rid of the stereotypes, misunderstandings, and judgments that have been made by many individuals about both teenagers and young adults, because this is a vital issues to saving not only the current generation of teenagers.  But also to save the generations of teenagers that will follow in their footsteps.  By opening the eyes of those individuals who have already passed judgment to the plight of today’s teenagers and young adults that are on the wrong path we will be able to get a head start on making a brighter future for the United States.  We are in the beginning stages of planning, making connections, and most of all trying to raise enough money to make this vision a reality.  Please contact me if you have questions or need references, or would like for me to come and speak at either your Church, Youth Ministry, or workplace. I am a Motivational Speaker for teenagers on the wrong path in Juvenile Detention Centers to get them to go down the right path and break the cycle of continually getting into trouble and to stop them from ending up in the Adult Prison System. I use my experiences that I had as a teenager and into my early twenties to show them what can happen when they are getting into trouble, so they do not make the same mistakes that I made when I was their age.. I also am a certified Middle School and High School Classroom Speaker to help end Bullying. I believe that every Public School System in the United States should have a program set in place to eradicate the disease known as bullying that affects more people than anyone could ever imagine. I want to show children that bullying is not a joke, because when someone for instance pushes the enter button on a computer after typing something rude, wrong, nasty or inappropriate it is just like pulling the trigger on a gun. Due to the fact that it causes damage to the person it was posted about takes several years to a lifetime to overcome the mental harm that it has caused the person and their entire family. I also want to counsel the bullies themselves, because they have seen someone being bullied either by their father bullying their mother, an older brother or sister bullying someone else or themselves or that they were also a victim of bullying earlier on in school. However, several years later after gaining weight and getting taller the effects of what happened to them are now coming out in the form of them being a bully. I want to counsel not only the bully, but also his or her family members so that the bullying is cut off at the root of its cause.

My God Given Destiny to Save the Generation of 13-25 Year Olds

My name is Brian Cross and I have been blessed to be the vessel that God has chosen to open both a Church and Youth Center in every major city in order to fulfill the destiny that my personal Lord and Savior Jesus Christ had planned for me before I was even born.  Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns or you are in need of help with a teenager that is on the wrong path.  My mission is to through preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ, teaching teenagers and young adults about how Jesus Christ expects for us to live our lives, how to build a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, through one-on-one mentoring/counseling,, and also building a firm foundation of Christianity in their lives while showing them that Jesus Christ is the only person that will never leave them or forsake them.  I have dedicated the rest of my life as long as I have breath to helping teenagers and young adults that are on the wrong path to become college graduates, productive citizens, and world changers.  The Back on Track Youth and Young Adult Ministries was created in order to get rid of the stereotypes, misunderstandings, and judgments that have been made by many individuals about both teenagers and young adults, because this is a vital issues to saving not only the current generation of teenagers.  But also to save the generations of teenagers that will follow in their footsteps.  By opening the eyes of those individuals who have already passed judgment to the plight of today’s teenagers and young adults that are on the wrong path we will be able to get a head start on making a brighter future for the United States.  We are in the beginning stages of planning, making connections, and most of all trying to raise enough money to make this vision a reality.  Please contact me if you have questions or need references, or would like for me to come and speak at either your Church, Youth Ministry, or workplace.

Let me Start by Introducing Myself

   I began my second chance at life on June 29, 1994, the day that I had my neck broken rendering me paralyzed from the neck down.  It has been a long road, because of all the various challenges that I have faced such as life threatening illnesses.  I started going to church after I started having my house painted, because I wanted to move to Southwest Orlando so that I would be able to be closer to where the church I was going to was supposed to move to that part of town.  As God would have it the painter that I paid to paint my house whom I picked randomly from the telephone book was a Christian.  After approximately two weeks one day when he was painting by house on a Friday he invited me to go to church with him on the following Sunday.  I agreed to go with him, so when I got to church everyone was really nice and many of them made me feel like I had been going to the church for a long time.  I knew that I was meant to be there that Sunday, because even though there were approximately 5000-6000 people in church that morning.  The message the pastor preached was meant for me to hear, because everything the pastor said felt like God was speaking directly to me.  That morning it seemed to me that the only three people that were in the service were the God, the pastor and myself.  We were in there for 4 hours, but to me it only seemed like 10 minutes.  When we all got back to my house I had the painter lead me to the Lord.  The very next day I rolled into the tattoo parlor that I was the owner of just after we opened and had the doors locked behind me then told everyone that was working in the parlor that we're out of business.  They were very angry, but I told them they would not understand why I was closing the shop for so I just told them that they had 2 hours to get all of their belongings out or that everything that was left in the parlor would be considered garbage.  I was in the process of getting a tattoo on my right knee, but I told the artist that was doing the artwork when he asked me when I was going to let him finish it that I was no longer going to disgrace Jesus Christ by being tattooed anymore.  So, since June of 1999 I have been going to church whenever possible or at least watching it on the Internet.  I have been a peer mentor for those with spinal cord injuries for approximately the past 13 years, but since the beginning of the summer of 2012 I have been busy doing college work due to the fact that I have been a student at Oral Roberts University majoring in Church Ministries and Theology.  So, unfortunately I have not had been able to do any mentoring other than going to the Juvenile Detention Center in Seminole County, Florida which was very exciting.  I want to be an motivational speaker not only for the troubled teenagers, but also for their parents.

Oral Roberts University, A new chapter in my Life

I am currently majoring in Church Ministries  via the Distance Learning Program in, which I have both The Old and New Testaments, The History of Christianity about the various theologians from the first- century to 21st century, including both their positive and negative effects on Christianity,  I have also studied both exegesis and hermenuetics in order to be able to know what the original authors of the books of The Bible intended for their writings that were inspired by the Holy spirit to not only mean for their  original readers, but what they intended the scriptures to be understood by their readers  in the 21st century,. I have also studied Seminar in Theological Research, Pastoral Ministry Skills, and also how to plan and grow churches from the ground up. I'm currently studying, psychology, communications, and sociology in order to help congregation members to overcome spiritual, mental, and physical challenges in their lives.  I am 42 years old and have been out of school since I graduated in 1988. This is a very exciting and exhilarating time in my life, because I am going to be majoring in Christian Ministries and Theology, so that I can be a servant of Jesus Christ. All that I want to do with the rest of my life is to serve others and to spread the uncompressed gospel of Jesus Christ. Even though all I am paralyzed from the neck down I have the faith that I will be able to not only graduate, but to be able to graduate at the top of my class. The classes that have taken to this date thus far include,• Pastoral Ministry Skills (LCHM 306 UG) • Introduction to Evangelism (LCHM 335 UG) • Survey of Old Testament LIT (LBLT 110 UG) • Survey of New Testament (LBLT 120 UG) • Whole Person Assessment (LGEN 099 UG) • American Government /Politics (LGOV 101 UG) • History of CHR II Medieval Church (LTHE 462 UG) • Hermeneutics Principles /Biblical Interpretation (LBIB 306 UG) • Systematic Theology I (LTHE 313 UG) • Systematic Theology II (LTHE 314 UG) • Sprit-Empowered Living (LTHE 103 UG) • Teaching the Bible (LCHM 305 UG) • Christian Worldview & Culture (LHUM 103 UG) • Contemporary Theology (LTHE 444 UG) • Reading/Writing in Lib Arts (LCMP 102 UG) • Introduction to College Math (LMAT 099 UG) • Math & Society (LMAT 151 UG) Plus I have also recently completed successfully, Introduction to Christian Education (LCHM 304) and Divine Healing (LTHE 402).