| Crossroads Announcements | | By: Joyce | | Posted: April 4, 2008 @ 11:17 AM | | | Dear Friends
We want to make you aware of some opportunities as we approach this Sunday:
First, CLOCKS CHANGE on Saturday! Spring ahead one hour. If you forget, you'll be late for worship.
Second, Crossroads Kids Vianne, Morgan, Crissy and Pablo all have April birthdays. After worship on Sunday everyone is invited to stay for an informal barbecue and swim party at Casabuena. Hotdogs and Hamburgers provided. Bring a salad or chips to share. Talk to Susu Sanders if you have any questions.
Third, this Sunday please bring your donations of good, clean used clothing and shoes (men, women, kids) to church. We will be taking it to La Paz de Cristo, a sister church up Sonora, who collects clothing for needy families. New clothing may also be donated. If you can help transport the items later in the week, please speak with Pastor Joyce or Susu Sanders.
Fourth, we will be celebrating communion this Sunday. The Scripture text to study is Luke 24:13-35
Blessings
Pastor Joyce Reed |
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| Update on Annual Meetings & Organization | | By: Joyce Reed | | Posted: October 27, 2007 @ 5:00 PM | | | Dear Friends:
The Baptist Pastors have agreed to let Crossroads organize as a Ministry of the Convention to English-Speaking people in place of organizing as a "church." This is a huge relief to us! On one hand we realize that as a group of believers following Jesus we are the body of Christ and we are a "church," but on the other hand we also realize that we do not have the infrastructure of what many people think of as "church". Being recognized as a Ministry will give us more flexibility and lessen the expectations that the convention churches will have of our fellowship. We will still have a celebrational service on November 24th that shares Crossroads' Vision and Mission with the convention.
Blessings
Joyce and David |
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| Church Meeting, Sept 9 | | By: Joyce Reed | | Posted: October 16, 2007 @ 5:00 PM | | | Dear Friends,
First we want to thank you so much for your generous gifts for Pastor's Appreciation Month! This past Sunday evening we used the gift certificate to the Bed and Breakfast. What a beautiful evening! We have also enjoyed some delicious meals with various families and have yet to take advantage of some of our other surprises! Your love and encouragement gave us a tremendous boost. We are so blessed to be here and to have the opportunity to walk in fellowship with each of you.
Second, please find the minutes of our Quarterly Church Meeting held in September here. They will also be posted on our web site. Take the time to read through them and remember what we talked about, dreamed about, prayed about, visioned about, and actually voted to accomplish!
Finally, here are some important dates to mark on your calendar . . .
Wednesday, October 17, 7:30-9:30pm: Instead of having our usual Bible Study, we're traveling up Sonora (e/Ramirez & Altimirano) to attend a conference at the church La Paz de Cristo. They are hosting counselors from the U.S. on the topics of grief, anger, & family violence. All sessions will be in English with Spanish translation. You will choose which workshop you want to attend. You can go directly to the church, or meet at Casabuena at 7:15pm to car pool.
Sunday, October 21: Pastor Joyce will bring the message. She will continue on the theme of Worship.
Friday, October 26, 5:30pm, First Baptist Church: Planning committee for hosting the Annual Convention Meetings (Ana, Rodolfo, Mimi, Jean and Pastors will attend. Others are invited to come along too!)
Sunday, October 28: Rodolfo Rodriguez will bring the message.
Sundays, November 4 & 11: Church Dinners & Fellowship for strategic planning of our responsibilities for hosting Annual Meetings of the Baptist Convention of Southern Baja.
Sunday, November 18: Church Thanksgiving Pot-luck . . . church provides the turkey, everyone else the side dishes. Sign-up the week before!
Thursday to Saturday, November 22, 23, & 24: Annual Meetings of Baptist Convention will be held at The First Baptist Church (since Crossroads doesn't have adequate space)
Saturday, November 24, First Baptist, 7pm: Special worship service for the organization of Crossroads as an official church within the convention. We want EVERYONE TO ATTEND THIS IF AT ALL POSSIBLE! It's going to be an awesome night!
Sunday, November 25: Rodolfo Rodriguez will bring the message
Sunday, December 2: First Sunday in Advent. Kid's Sunday School in charge!
Tuesday, December 11: Women's Christmas Tea
Monday, December 24: Christmas Eve Service at Marina La Paz
Friday, December 28 to Tuesday, January 1: Pastors David and Joyce will be hosting the American Baptist Baja Missionary Retreat here in La Paz. Three missionary families from N. Baja will be joining us as well as staff from our National Headquarters.
Sunday, December 30: Retired Pastor Bob Santilli, who also coordinates a volunteer prayer initiative for American Baptists International Ministries, will be our guest speaker.
Blessings
Joyce and David |
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| Over 160 Books in our Library! | | By: Stefen West | | Posted: October 5, 2007 @ 4:19 PM | | | The library is ready for your perusal!
When you go to the library page, the items are sorted by category. To change the sort order, click on the field you wish to sort by in the Sort Options section. Then choose whether to order the results ascending (A to Z, 0-9) or descending (Z-A, 9-0). Your choice is reflected in the text field of the sort button. Then, press the sort button and viola - in theory :).
Contact the Web Maestro via the contacts page if you have any questions or problems.
PS, We also have youth and kids items, which will be uploaded soon! Cheers. |
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| Lending Library List is Growing | | By: Stefen West | | Posted: October 2, 2007 @ 7:11 AM | | | | The list of books in our lending library is now available. Data entry is progressing, so keep checking back to see if we have a book you might be interested in. Our list should be complete in a week or so. |
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| Men's Breakfast | | By: Stefen West | | Posted: September 23, 2007 @ 8:45 AM | | | | The Men's Breakfast has changed locations.
We now meet at the Gorilla Grill, which is located on Revolucion between Legaspy and Encinas.
See you there! |
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| CrossRoads Library | | By: Stefen | | Posted: August 30, 2007 @ 1:00 PM | | | Hi there!
Elaine Kerr has spent quite a bit of time documenting the CCF library.
At the moment, you can see our list of books, alphabetically,
here
and by category, here.
Very soon this list will be integrated into the redesigned CCF website, along with our
membership directory and personalized login accounts. |
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| Covering of Prayer | | By: Joyce | | Posted: February 14, 2007 @ 1:30 PM | | | Dear Friends,
This Saturday at 10am Pastor David and myself will be meeting with members of the worship team, the Sunday School teachers, and two couples gifted with encouragement and intecessory prayer to discuss and pray about some of the leadership/discipleship/growth challenges facing Crossroads at this time. Would you please keep this gathering in your prayers?
Please don't feel slighted or left out if you weren't invited. We simply needed to begin this process with a smaller group before we broached these themes at the Quarterly Church Meeting on March 4th. And it made sense to begin with some of those already serving in leadership capacities. We will update everyone about the ideas shared next week.
Also, don't forget that this Sunday we're having a church meeting to begin to review our statements of faith for our organizational meeting on April 28. Bring a sandwich and a salad to share!
Love to you all on Valentine's Day!
Pastors Joyce and David |
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| Important Dates for CrossRoads | | By: David and Joyce | | Posted: February 2, 2007 @ 12:17 PM | | | Dear Friends,
As you know from an email Pastor David sent out a week ago, Crossroads will be celebrating her official organization with the Baptist Convention of Southern Baja on April 28 at 6pm. Mark your calendars now!
One part of that special worship service will involve us presenting our Statements of Faith. Therefore, we would like to have a special church meeting in February, March and April to review these faith statements with you. That way, none of you will be surprised that night and think, "Really! We believe that!" Statements of Faith state what we believe about God, Jesus, The Holy Spirit, Sin & Salvation, etc. They are usually 1-2 sentences with Scripture references that support the belief.
We would like to have these gatherings on the following Sundays:
February 18
March 11
April 22
We can plan easy pot-luck lunches for each of these days so that no one gets too hungry!
Also, our next quarterly church meeting will be held the first Sunday in March, the 4th, right after worship. So in March, we will have two Sundays in a row where there are after-church events. We hope that by scheduling this far ahead, we will minimize any stress this might cause you!
Looking forward to seeing you this Sunday!
Blessings
Joyce and David |
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| CrossRoads' Organizational Service! | | By: David and Joyce | | Posted: January 21, 2007 @ 8:30 PM | | | Greetings to all!
I hope you are finding how faithful is our God as you move with him each day.
Be of good cheer, Christ has overcome the world!
I am writing with good news and a challenge.
As you know we have been praying about taking a step of maturity and becoming a part of
a larger group of churches here in La Paz. Part of this is practical meaning we need to
become "legal" as a church here in Mexico. This will enable us to respond to God's leading
in La Paz with boldness. Otherwise we have a reason to stay hidden and we want to shed that
excuse and fear. Part of this is maturity. It will challenge us to grow when we are
accountable to a larger body of believers. Most of us squirm a bit when we consider accountability.
Let me say accountability is good. The Bible indicates it is part of what God desires for the body as a whole.
It will also help keep to us from straying off, down some strange doctrinal road...not
that we are prone to wondering. It's all good. It does present us with a challenge of building
relationship with believers from our surrounding culture and partnering in the work of the Gospel.
May I invite you to get to know our brothers and sisters in Christ and to be a part of showing how
the Lord has grown us in our faith.
We have scheduled our "Organization" service for April 28!
Because our building is so small we will have the actual service at a larger church.
Why do we need to do that? Because the tradition among our Mexican brothers and sisters
is this is that when a church is able to stand on it own, it is cause for thanksgiving, \
worship, and celebration and everyone will be invited! There may be 300 people or more at this service!
Believe it or not, you all are sort of a "poster child" among the Mexican Baptist churches.
They pray for you regularly understanding we are foreigners in a foreign land.
They want us not only to be at home with God in this place but used in mighty ways for God's kingdom.
Our attendance is very important! We simply can't forget we are guests in Mexico.
As a church we have been "hosted" all this time by these very churches.
Though we have not made it a vital part of our ministry, CrossRoads has always been
a mission work supported by the Mexican Baptist Churches, especially the First Baptist Church.
May I invite you to be a part of showing our gratitude!
Some time after the official ceremony we will invite our friends,
brothers and sisters from the First Baptist Church to come over for a cook-out,
a celebration of our relationship, and a spiritual renewal. We will thank God for how CrossRoads
has grown in his care and place ourselves in God's future.
We will be announcing more later so keep your ears open!
Your Pastors, David and Joyce |
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| Womans Tea - December 13th | | By: Joyce | | Posted: November 12, 2006 @ 8:37 AM | | | | Remember CrossRoad`s Annual Women`s Tea on Wednesday, December 13th, from 10-noon. |
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| Care for Kids La Paz Angel Tree | | By: Joyce | | Posted: November 12, 2006 @ 8:27 AM | | | | As Christmas approaches, we will again be having an Angel Tree to help provide toys for Care for Kids La Paz. And for November 26, Thanksgiving Sunday, we will be collecting food donations. |
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| Project on the Hill | | By: David Reed | | Posted: November 8, 2006 @ 5:00 PM | | | | Thursday November 9th, after the men's breakfast we will be going up the hill where Barbara Spencer has her breakfast program. We'll be putting up a fence around the stove and storrage area. We have the materials and just need a few good men. Bring a hammer and/or a drill (coredless if possible) with a philips screw point. I have the rest. If you can't go to breakfast at Rancho Viejo, at 8:30 on Thursday we will meet at CasaBuena at 10:00. |
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| Dedication of William Wyatt Simis | | By: Joyce Reed | | Posted: October 22, 2006 @ 12:00 PM | | | Baby Wyatt was dedicated to the Lord today, October, 22, 2006, ten weeks to the day of his birth! Parents Allen and Kathy also recommitted themselves as parents to the Lord, and to the raising of their children with Christian values. Standing with Allen and Kathy, were Allen’s father, Richard, and his wife, Lavonne Simis, Allen’s sister Vicky and her husband, Garrett Stritch. Oh yes, and of course, Morgan, Allen and Kathy's first son!
For some pictures of the joyful event, click here! |
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Visioning Meeting, Oct 15th, 2006
and Lunch! | | By: Joyce Reed | | Posted: October 16, 2006 @ 5:00 PM | | | | Lunch was delicious. It and the meeting were well attended. You can view David's presentation by clicking here. |
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| Church Meeting, Sept 24th, 2006 | | By: Joyce Reed | | Posted: September 24, 2006 @ 5:00 PM | | | Blessings
Joyce
You can view the meeting summary by clicking here. |
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