The story behind our club is rather interesting. In 1998, we started as a home-school archery class to fulfill the physical education requirements for home-schooled students. This also began as an outreach ministry of Calvary Chapel of Fairport through Bill and Debbie Foster. Long story shortened; as the Foster’s children entered their high school years, the Foster’s directed their attention to the music/worship mission field at Calvary Chapel of Greece, NY and abroad; they turned the archery ministry over to Doug and Sue Ludwig in 2005.

Points to the Cross began as a JOAD group (Jr. Olympic Archery Development); we’ve kept up the JOAD classes and format and have added the Adult Archery Achievement program, camp programs, and more.

In 2006, Monroe County Sports Commission put a bid into USA Archery (formerly National Archery Association) to bring a national sporting event to the Rochester area and needed to have a “host” club with the association with USA Archery (USAA) . We said, “go for it”; it was a huge long-shot that the bid would even be accepted anyways since it had never been accepted in New York State since the inception of the event in 1980. Good God! We won the bid and hosted the national event in 2007; putting the Rochester venue on the “map” for viable venues for such events.

With this immense responsibility came the costs to put on a “first-rate” event. However, the expenses were far higher than our little club was able to endure; we would need a ton of support; financially, emotionally, and physically. We started fund raising and recruiting volunteers. However, in order for us to “fund raise” we needed to be a recognized “not for profit organization” or affiliated with one. We have been associated with Oasis Christian Fellowship as an outreach ministry in April 2007.

As an outreach ministry, our focus is to provide services and resources to churches, schools, small businesses, and individuals, to tend to their primary “business” while we (Points to the Cross) tend to these other (non-related) affiliations, ministries, and services for these organizations such as administrative services for ancillary programs such as school group activities, camps, clubs, organized sports, and other outside services.