Summer 2018 JC Session 7 Update
12 Churches | 278 Campers $3,221.90 for Haiti Missions Offering Kevin James Sermon Highlight Watch this week's highlight videos on our Youtube channel!
Sviatlana Panamarenka
Sviatlana Panamarenka was born 14 years ago in Gomel, a city of over a half a million people, a nine-hour drive west of Moscow in Belarus. Passionate about music, Sviatlana sings, plays the piano, and enjoys listening to her sister Hanna play the violin. When Sviatlana was six years old, her parents divorced. “In Belarus, it [...]
Summer 2018 JC Session 6 Update
25 Churches | 471 Campers $5,592.93 for Haiti Missions Offering Kris Billiter Kris Billiter is a familiar face in the Crossings community. In 2000, the first year of Crossings' existence, Kris took a group of students here as a group leader. The next summer, Kris worked the whole summer as a summer [...]
Summer 2018 JC Session 5 Update
20 Churches | 774 Campers $9,172.88 for Haiti Missions Offering As Pastor Tom Richter was closing up his sermon on night four when a severe thunderstorm came through Jonathan Creek and cut off the power to all of camp, which should have brought the worship service to a screeching halt. Instead, the worship [...]
Wired Without Power
A modern worship service requires thousands of dollars of equipment to run smoothly. Lighting, speakers, sound systems, in-ear monitors, projectors, fog machines, and countless other electronic devices are considered essential to provide an atmosphere for followers of Christ to worship him. Last night, due to the work of a severe thunderstorm, all of those things [...]
Summer 2018 JC Session 4 Update
15 Churches | 392 Students $5324.03 for Haiti Missions Offering Martha came to Crossings for the first time much later than the typical first-timer at Crossings. Todd came into ministry much later than the average youth minister. Read the story of how through suffering and tragedy God called two of his children to [...]
Martha and Todd
Martha Jackson was a teacher for 39 years. During that time she also took care of her husband Bobby, who was disabled by arthritis and fibromyalgia. Day in and day out, with great faithfulness, Martha cared for her husband with the tender heart of a servant. Todd Bailey was a salesman before he got into [...]
Summer 2018 JC Session 3 Update
30 Churches | 606 Students $7,852.17 for Haiti Missions Offering We were blessed this week to have Sophia come to camp this week who was adopted from Haiti less than two years ago. Little did we know, Sophia went to Camp Le Phare in Haiti, the camp to which all of the missions [...]
Summer 2018 JC Session 2 Update
19 Churches | 343 Campers $4,593.17 for Haiti Missions Offering Many times the games or activities children participate in, especially in a camp ministry, can seem insignificant and like wastes of time when real ministry is to be done. But a child-like faith is able to see past the surface and see the [...]
Faith Like a Child
“Can anyone relate Bazooka Ball back to the Gospel?” “We are like the markers. If the markers are not connected to the CO2 they cannot shoot the balls; they are ineffective. In the same way, if we are not connected to God’s Word which is our fuel, we will not be effective for Christ. But [...]