Cross Strength Ministries, LLC
True Strength is found at the foot of the cross
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Many maladaptive behaviors, personality traits, and cognitive impairments are due to a myriad of Spiritual, psycho-social, sociological, mental, emotional, and traumatic factors, including addiction, rage, aggression, stress, depression and anxiety. These issues can have violent and even deadly outcomes and have been empirically documented to be drastically improved with consistent, high intensity, Christian programming and physical fitness training. Program Objectives: •Encourage and engage men and male youth in positive, biblical, masculine, manhood. • Decrease bystander behaviors • Eliminate dating violence/domestic violence • Prevent/eliminate sexual violence • Support and advocate for biblical Manhood • Encourage and promote healthy, biblical, godly dating/marriage relationships • Equipping men and male youth with the skills and resources to engage in healthy, positive, male friendships • Develop, encourage, and promote healthy, go
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Cross Strength Ministries: Discipleship Training Center
Based in Wilson County, the Cross Strength Ministries Discipleship Training Center will serve as a “one-stop-shop” for families in need of crisis management, resources, referrals, counseling, support groups, safety planning, evaluations, assessments, and/or discipleship (counseling and/or Biblical manhood/womanhood classes) and more.
The goal is to provide empirically tested and biblically accurate life skills to families that will intervene and prevent distorted beliefs that lead to maladaptive and high-risk behaviors.
Much research has been done on the benefits to cognitive development, executive decision making, discernment, and self-control when a person exercises on a regular basis. There are also many analogies used throughout the Bible that call men and women to be deliberate in their discipline of mind and body as the two are inseparable. Therefore, all programming includes fitness as part of the curriculum, available onsite, by certified professionals, free of charge.
The Pastor of Pump
Cross Strength Ministry founder, and ordained Pastor: David Ashley aka The Pastor of Pump" uses faith and fitness in his discipleship training program.
Working with the athletic departments of schools, athletes are trained through strength and conditioning both in the body and the soul.
Additionally, he speaks to the community, churches, conferences and has consulted with churches to design men's discipleship/fitness programming.
David is a pastor/evangelist with a Masters of Apologetics and a Master of Divinity and integrates his 30 plus years as a (NASM) certified personal trainer to lead men and high-risk youth in the acknowledgment that "True Strength is Found at the Foot of the Cross."
R3: Redemption. Restoration. Recovery. Domestic Violence Services and Training
Cross Strength Ministries’ domestic violence program: R3, promises to provide the domestic violence victims the opportunity for redemption, restoration, and recovery (R3) from domestic abuse, sexual assault, and all forms of family violence through the biblical precepts found in the infallible word of Christ Jesus.
R3 offers emergency shelter, transportation, court advocacy, law-enforcement assistance: assessment and evaluations, safety planning, case management, crime scene clean up/reimbursement, and temporary housing for those families affected by domestic homicides.
R3 has a thirty-five-year proven track record of domestic violence intervention, prevention through awareness and education, counseling, justice system navigation, court advocacy, curricula, programming, case management, resources, and referrals.
Fit to Lead: Certified Batterer Intervention Program (Offender Treatment)
The purpose of the Fit to Lead BIP is to identify and replace distorted thoughts and beliefs, such as self-aggrandizing authoritarianism (Luke 22:26), that lead to controlling attitudes that drive behaviors that demean, demoralize, condescend, patronize, dishonor, disrespect, defile, and cause Spiritual, physical, psychological, emotional, financial, and sexual harm to victims of domestic violence.
Fit to Lead is a comprehensive, empirically tested, biblically sound, community effort that will protect victims of domestic violence, by providing immediate safety and ongoing services, resources, and referrals.
Utilizing the most effective psychological theories, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and the sufficiency of Scripture; These distortions are exposed, rebuked, and replaced through the truth of biblical masculinity, which is an attitude of benevolent responsibility to lead, provide for, and protect women through Jesus’ example of servanthood. Research has consistently shown that
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of health/hygiene product and/or tools of care (mosquito nets, soap, etc.) administered
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Family relationships, Health, Christians, Secular groups, Social and economic status
Related Program
R3: Redemption. Restoration. Recovery. Domestic Violence Services and Training
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This is a low estimate. Thousands of individuals receive additional resources through multiple contacts throughout the communities that we serve and refer to.
Number of community-based organizations providing primary prevention services in violence
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Family relationships, Offenders, Victims of crime and abuse
Related Program
Cross Strength Ministries: Discipleship Training Center
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
We are the only community-based program that provides primary prevention services to both the victim and the offender.
Number of community-based organizations providing primary prevention services in physical activity
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Age groups, Ethnic and racial groups, Health, Social and economic status, Religious groups
Related Program
Cross Strength Ministries: Discipleship Training Center
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Besides the Fellowship of Christian Athletes we are the ONLY service that combines our programing with fitness activities.
Total number of clients experiencing homelessness
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Age groups, Ethnic and racial groups, Health, Social and economic status, Family relationships
Related Program
R3: Redemption. Restoration. Recovery. Domestic Violence Services and Training
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
2021 and forward we will only collect data on TN Nearly 100% of clients who are referred to us or call us are homeless or will be in the near future. We cannot assist them if they refuse to leave.
Number of crisis hotline calls answered
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Age groups, Ethnic and racial groups, Family relationships, Health, Social and economic status
Related Program
R3: Redemption. Restoration. Recovery. Domestic Violence Services and Training
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
As of 2021 we will only collect data for our Tennessee location
Number of youth mentored
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Young adults, Children and youth, Ethnic and racial groups, Non-adult children, Christians
Related Program
Cross Strength Ministries: Discipleship Training Center
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Intervention: Provide immediate and comprehensive services to families of violence.
Prevention: Provide personal and group therapeutic services, counseling, case management, classes, resources, referrals, to the victim and/or offender and high-risk youth.
Prediction: Evaluations/Assessments to educational facilities, law enforcement, and judicial systems to prevent an escalation of violent behaviors in offenders (men, women, boys, and girls).
Education/Awareness: Utilizing all modes available, provide community services and educational campaigns for parents, schools, churches, colleges, senior centers, prisons, and jails.
Policy: Research and develop policies that deter violence and promote accountability as well as safety for victims, their children, and the communities in which they live.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Currently, we are servicing victims. We would like to increase our ministry to include servicing offenders, youth, and the community by way of increasing our presence with a full service community center that will also encompass counseling, life-skills, training, fitness, as well as address issues such as parenting, domestic violence, homelessness, addiction and substance abuse, dating, violence, support groups for families of homicides/overdose, financial and heath wellbeing.
As stated, we do this through purchasing or renting space that will house a classroom, gym, and counseling offices so that we can run our offender treatment programs, provide victims services, provide community education and awareness, and increase cognitive function through the use of the free fitness center (to anyone participating in the classes/courses/support groups/counseling services offered).
We service more victims by purchasing a building or home to transition into a domestic violence shelter.
We accomplish these goals through fundraising and tithing to our ministry.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We have over 35 years as domestic violence service providers. All class curricula has been written, published, and is ready/approved for use in the areas of:
Counseling
Support Groups
Batterer Intervention programming
Family Support groups
Court-mandated domestic violence classes
Youth support groups and programming.
David Ashley has a Masters of Apologetics, Masters of Divinity, and is a published author/professional speaker and evangelist. He is also NASB certified as a personal trainer, has a Bachelor's degree in exercise science and has been a personal trainer for over 30 years.
Holly T. Ashley has overcome childhood molestation, gang rape, date rape, and abortion, and 25 years of domestic assault. She is one of the founding members of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the Arizona Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and completed her undergraduate work in research psychology and has a Master's degree in Forensic Psychology. She has published 5 books on domestic abuse and sexual assault and is currently conducting research on sibling rivalry/abuse and pushing for legislation in the area of accountability in the justice reform effort: Currently, there is no tracking of 911/dispatch domestic violence calls back to the law enforcement report or outcome.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
The R3 Domestic violence classes, support groups, and training curriculum has been servicing court-mandated offenders, families, and victims of domestic violence in three different locations, at the rate of 20 individuals per class, per location, per week.
Cross Strength Ministries has a network of resources and referrals that span the entire United States servicing not only victims and offenders of domestic abuse - but also those who have been human trafficked and sexually abused.
Since 2018, when we moved our corporate headquarters to middle Tennessee, we service victims, offenders, children, and youth.
We have serviced clients in the areas of transportation, emergency shelter, court advocacy, evaluations and assessments, case management and treatment, mental health referrals, addiction recovery and maintenance, homelessness, as well as basic hygiene, home, clothing, and food.
Through continued research, we have identified predictors of domestic violence and designed programming to address these findings. Additionally, we are using this research to drive policy changes with the justice reform initiatives and educational practices.
Current research projects include 911-police intervention accountability. This research identifies malfunctions of not tracking 911/dispatch calls with police reports/actions to determine whether follow-up/prevention services are being utilized and the outcome of such intervention/prevention services.
Sibling Abuse: Sibling abuse is the number one form of domestic violence and the number one predictor of bullying/victimization in school-aged children. Additionally, empirical evidence has found that it leads to escalated violence/victimization throughout the lifespan.
Policy: We repeatedly meet with legislators, politicians, and law enforcement officials to enhance the existing efforts to combat domestic abuse and discuss best practices.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback, We ask the people who gave us feedback how well they think we responded
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback, We don’t have the right technology to collect and aggregate feedback efficiently, The people we serve tell us they find data collection burdensome, It is difficult to find the ongoing funding to support feedback collection, It is difficult to get honest feedback from the people we serve
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Cross Strength Ministries, LLC
Board of directorsas of 11/01/2022
Rev David Ashley
Cross Strength Ministries, LLC
Term: 2011 -
Mrs. Holly Ashley
R3. Redemption. Restoration.Recovery Domestic Violence Services
Term: 2012 -
George William (Bill) Ashley
Education - Retired
Richard Cunningham
Man up and Lead
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes