1908–1989

Introduction

Died: 1989, at his home in Cos­ta Me­sa, Ca­li­for­nia.

Biography

McCrossan gra­du­at­ed from the Simp­son Bi­ble In­sti­tute in 1926, and in 1927 be­gan a 16-year ev­an­gel­is­tic min­is­try in Ca­na­da, Bri­tain, and Am­er­ica.

In 1943, he be­came di­rect­or of the Vic­to­ry Ser­vice Club, an out­reach min­is­try to mi­li­ta­ry per­son­nel es­tab­lished the pre­vi­ous year by the Un­ion Res­cue Mis­sion (URM) in Los An­ge­les, Ca­li­for­nia.

As his obit­u­ary ex­plained, through World War II and the Ko­re­an and Vi­et­nam wars, [the VSC] was a place where young men and wo­men in a strange ci­ty could ga­ther for food and friend­ship.

It also was a place of faith, Mc­Cross­an said in a 1961 in­ter­view, a place where tens of thou­sands for­mal­ly ac­cept­ed Christ and hun­dreds more were in­spired to en­ter va­ri­ous min­is­tries (Los An­ge­les Times, Ap­ril 15, 1989).

According to the URM web site, the Vic­to­ry Ser­vice Club was a spi­rit­ual ha­ven and ga­ther­ing place for near­ly two mill­ion ser­vice­men dur­ing the war years. Mc­Cross­an served as di­rect­or un­til his re­tire­ment in 1975.

McCrossan was al­so a sing­er, Gos­pel song com­pos­er, and held down a side job as an an­noun­cer on ra­dio sta­tion KGER in Long Beach, Ca­li­for­nia.

He co­py­right­ed On the Je­ri­cho Road in 1928 when he was on­ly 20.

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