From: The Bethany Broadcast June 2001 Christian Crosses – Confirmands inAction…
by Matthew Berry Have
you ever been driving down and inter-state or major highway and seen three
Crosses on the side of the road? A
man named Bernard Coffindaffer, who in 1993 began building clusters of three
crosses across America, began this ministry called Christian Crosses. He took on this project because the Holy
Spirit instructed him to do so.
Coffindaffer sadly died on October 6, 1993 of a heart attack, but the
1864 clusters of crosses that he built across the nation still stand. Since
Coffindaffer’s death, Christian Crosses, Inc. was formed to continue his
great ministry. Many of the standing
crosses need to be restored and repainted.
My confirmation mentor, Mr. Thompson suggested that we repaint
the tree crosses at a location North of Frederick, Maryland as a confirmation
project. On
Good Friday, the thirteenth of April 2001, Mr. Thompson, my dad, and I headed
for the crosses on the side of the highway North of Frederick. Hr. Thompson had already bought yellow and
baby blue paint to repaint the crosses and had the equipment that we needed.
It took about an hour to get there and the crosses were really easy to
find. As we drove up close to them we
realized the crosses were only about thirty yards away from the road, so it
wouldn’t be hard binging the tools and accessories we needed out of the
car. To accomplish this task we took
a ten to fifteen foot extension roller and dipped in paint and started
rolling. The cross in the middle was repainted
yellow and the smaller two on the outside were repainted light blue. The job took only about two and a
half-hours. We
painted the crosses because first of all they needed to be painted and second
because we wanted to keep the tradition going and hopefully inspire the many
people who drove by us that day.
While we were working, about thirteen people beeped their horns at us
and waved as they drove by. This was
an experience that I will never forget and I am looking forward to making
this a tradition every Good Friday.
For more information about this ministry, go to www.christiancrosses.org |
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