What's the latest at Crossroads?
Learn more about what is going on at Crossroads Church and how you can get more involved through events, classes, and service opportunities.
- NEW Outreach Opportunity: Represent Crossroads at McFarland Community Festival
Come participate in some fun outreach! At the annual McFarland Community Festival, we will have a booth with some free giveaways and have a float in the parade this year. It is a great way to be present in the community that we have been sent to reach! There are lots of ways to be involved. Check out the sign up for more info.
- Prayer in the Word
Please join weekly us as we pray for our church, communities, missionaries, world, and one another. All are welcome! Any questions? Reach out to Christina.
- Men’s Bible Study
Men, please join weekly on Thursdays, for a time of fellowship and growth us as we go through the book "A Guide to Biblical Manhood" together (copies provided). Email Jordan if you have any questions, or feel free to just show up!
- Women at the Crossroads
Weekly sessions for our women’s Bible study resume in September! We will be studying the parables of Jesus, with the plan for childcare to be available. Please contact Shirley with any questions.
- Outreach Opportunity: Moms Community Open Gym
Get the kid's wiggles out and bond with other moms at the moms community open gym! It will be open every first and third Friday starting September 19. Invite your neighbors and friends! Please contact Brittany with any questions.
- Evening of Worship & Prayer
Join us for our September worship night. As a reminder, we host this event on the 3rd Sunday of each month.
- Service Opportunity: Monica & Nick's Meal Train
Nick, Monica, and Autumn have welcomed their baby boy! As they adjust to life as a family of 4, one important and tangible way we can bless them as a church is to provide them with meals. Whether it is in the form of a homemade meal or a gift card, please consider signing up for a day to help them during this transition!You can sign up or get more information here.
- Service Opportunity: Invest in the children of Crossroads: Serve with Kingdom Kids!
We’re in need of biweekly help in all areas of our Kingdom Kids Ministry during Sunday services - Birth to 2 years, 2 to 4 years, and Kindergarten through 3rd grade. Whether you prefer rocking babies, dancing with toddlers and preschoolers, or engaging school-age kids with thought provoking questions, there’s a spot for you. If you're able to help out twice a month or learn more, please email Charity.
- Service Opportunity: Help with tech during Sunday services
We are looking for folks to help with tech during Sunday services! These key service positions ensures that the service flows smoothly, both in-person and virtually. We can teach you what you need to know, so no prior experience is necessary. We are looking for volunteers to livestream, run slides, and facilitate sound. Please contact Estel or Robbie with any questions or if you are interested.
- Reading through the Bible together in a year
Join us at anytime in reading through the Bible together in a year! View the plan here.
Kingdom Kids
Manna at the Crossroads: Weekly Devotional
Crossroads Child Dedication
Crossroads Church held its first Child Dedication service on September 7, 2025. Charlotte Mae (parents: Chad & Janelle), Bonny (Alex & Sunngyeom), Theodore (Ben & Rachel), and Albert (Aaron & Jessica Marie) were dedicated to the Lord in the presence of siblings, extended families and the Crossroads congregational family. This is not a service commemorating a child’s salvation which requires personal belief in Christ. Rather their parents gave beautiful prayers of gratitude for God’s gift acknowledging the blessing of their specially created child. Parents made public statement of commitment to raise their child in the way of the Lord. They promised to stay in relationship with the Lord so that they may protect and nurture their child’s spiritual formation in partnership with the church. The congregation also committed to come along side these children and their families to protect, teach, listen, laugh, and love these children as they grow in the body of Christ. We have made our promises as parents and a congregation, now meditate on these selected scriptural passages that relate to presenting our children to the Lord to fulfill His will and plans for them.
1 Samuel 1:27-28, 2:11b
27 “ …For this boy I [Hannah] prayed, and the LORD has granted me my request which I asked of Him. 28 So I have also dedicated him [Samuel] to the LORD; as long as he lives he is dedicated to the LORD.” And he worshiped the LORD there… the boy continued to attend to the service of the LORD before Eli the priest.
Jesus Presented in the Temple, Luke 2:22,26-30
22 And when the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, they brought Him [Jesus] up to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord … 26 And it had been revealed to him [Simeon] by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ. 27 And he came in the Spirit into the temple, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him according to the custom of the Law, 28 he took him up in his arms and blessed God and said, 29 “Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace, according to your word; 30 for my eyes have seen your salvation…
Psalm 139:13-14
13 For You created my innermost parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. 14 I will give thanks to You, because I am awesomely and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.
Jeremiah 29:11
11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Deuteronomy 6:4-7
4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
Proverbs 22:6
6 Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
3 John 1:4
4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
Prayerfully with Joy and Gratitude,
Shirley McCallum
Interested in submitted a brief devotional to be included on our weekly newsletter? Email Shirley.
Praying Together
- Use the scriptures above regarding the child dedication to pray for all the children of Crossroads Church. Praise the LORD for God’s gift of so many babies born into Crossroads Church as a prayer fulfillment of opportunities for families and members of the body of Christ to teach and nurture passing on our faith to the next generations. Psalm 127:3 tells us “Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.”
- Praise the LORD for our newest baby Benjamin Owen born on August 27th to Nick and Monica and sister Autumn.
Continue to pray for the overall congregational health and comfort for grieving members of our church family. God knows what these individuals truly need and give them God’s refuge in their time of need.