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So much to Celebrate!

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This morning was Leadership Community at Crossbridge.  We invite people who are a part of our church to attend.  We get to know others who help make Crossbridge happen.  We share vision.  We talk about what the staff is working on.  We celebrate the work God is doing through our church.  We talk about what is coming up at Crossbridge.  We have a great time!

One of my favorite elements of Leadership Community is when we hear from each other about the ways we are expanding our capacity to do ministry—we call these “wins.”  Our mission is to help disconnected people connected God.  “Wins” are anything that moves us closer to accomplishing our mission.

This is some of what we celebrated this morning:

  • In less than two months, Crossbridge raised over $8,800 to expand our capacity to connect disconnected people to God in Haiti.  For the next year, we feed 88 students, sponsor 3 teachers, and build a water tower for a school in Haiti.
  • This semester, three new teams of group leaders launched new community groups.  Thank you Shawn and Erica Grant, Rob Orr, Michael and Laurie Lee, Sue Redd, and Elaine Wesley.
  • So many people connected to a community group for the first time at our Community group gathering in January.
  • Elizabeth Langgle is planning a trip for Crossbridge this year to Scotland.  Greg Buchanan is planning a trip this year to Haiti.
  • Leaders like Nathan and Maritza Nickerson and Nathan and Kelly Currier are creating opportunities for people to connect to community groups.
  • Leaders like Jason and Siri Fudge and Dan and Lindsey Cole are giving their community groups the opportunity to experience missional living.
  • Our preschool team (lead by Jenny Bates) is expanding our capacity to minister to preschoolers and parents of preschoolers at our 9:30 gathering.
  • Our nursery team (led by Kelly Currier) is going out of its way to make families feel comfortable leaving their babies with Crossbridge Kids.
  • Crossbridge Kids is exploding . . . and increasing our capacity to minister to families.
  • Our musical worship team is expanding.  Our preschool team is expanding.
  • Dan and Lindsey Cole are responding to God’s call to a church plant in Corvallis, Oregon.  We are so excited for Dan and Lindsey Cole!
  • Over the last year Dan has invested in Greg.  Dan is teaching Greg what it looks like to lead a musical worship team.  Dan “reproduced” himself.  Because of this relationship, Greg is ready to lead Crossbridge’s musical worship team!

There is so much to celebrate at Crossbridge!

Crossbridge is Missional

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Crossbridge is a church full of missional people–people who are living out the words of Jesus throughout the week.  At Crossbridge we will relentlessly pursue our mission of helping connect disconnected people to God.  Missional people join God on his mission to seek and save the lost.

We believe that following Jesus is as much about what we do and how we act as it is about what we read and what we believe.  We know that following Jesus is about so much more than attending a worship gathering on the weekend.  When we leave our worship gatherings and our small groups, we are more equipped to be intentional with our relationships during the rest of the week.  We see our neighborhoods, our work places, and recreational zones as our mission field.  We are intentional in our relationships with the people in these environments.

There is something we like to say around Crossbridge, “The front door to our church, is the front door of your home.”  No matter what the front door of your home may look like, the idea is this—we believe that the most effective way to connect people with our church AND with the love of Jesus, is by first connecting them in relationships with the people that make up our church.

We take seriously the words of Jesus:

  • Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”  Matthew 28:18-20
  • “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.Matthew 5:13
  • “You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.  Matthew 5:14-16

This is what we want to happen at Crossbridge:

  • We want to be people like Jesus
  • We want to be a church full of people living out the GREAT COMMISSION
  • As a church, we want to have a greater IMPACT on our COMMUNITY
  • We want to take the CHURCH to our CITY
  • We want to demonstrate God’s love to a broken world

AND we want to challenge and encourage each other along the way.

Crossbridge is MISSIONAL