We have been made for ministry. All Christians are ministers. Our goal is to have everyone at CrossPointe involved in some ministry in or through our church. Here are some of the ministries at our church and those who lead them. Feel free to contact the leaders by mentioning the ministry or leader name you are intereseted in the "Comment" section of the email form. They will email back in a timely manner.
Love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength and love our neighbors as ourselves. Who is our neighbor? That question was asked of Jesus and he answered in a parable. In his story, the neighbor was the one who extended help to the man beaten by robbers and left for dead (Luke 10). We are still asking the same question today. Who is our neighbor?
At Crosspointe we believe that any one who has a need that we can meet is our neighbor. To live out the second part of the Great Commandment in practical ways, some of our church community are involved in "English as a Second Language" programs as they recognize their neighbor to be immigrants who have come to this great country and are needing to learn the English language. Others determined that their neighbors are the children in our neighborhood schools and they have committed to tutor or be a lunch buddy, or help children improve their reading skills. Others have chosen to become involved with an organization that provides hot meals to the elderly and shut-ins. The elderly are their neighbors. Certain ones are involved in distributing food to the needy who have become their neighbors.
We all have neighbors and we encourage every one to intentionally reach out and become involved. If you have an hour to give, we can plug you into a rewarding volunteer ministry. Please contact the church for more information.
We have been given much, this is our way to give back to the Lord.
One of the emphases in CrossPointe's mission statement is that we exist to fulfill the Great Commission (Go and make disciples of all nations). The full text is in Matthew 28:19-20. It was one of the last instructions Christ gave before His death and is primary to us at Crosspointe.
Our strategy to accomplish that goal has three focuses.
We promote missions education in all age group organizations, in worship services with videos and bulletin inserts and during several special presentations during each year.
We support missions by giving a percentage of our regular offerings and all of the gifts to the four special offerings during the year to mission causes.
We do missions by sending teams on mission trips at least once each year. In 2008 a team of 15 will go to a serve with a foreign missionary couple that is from our own membership.