ABOUT US

MISSION

Cross Roads is a welcoming and inclusive community providing life-changing and sacred adventures for renewal, growth, and joy.

CORE VALUES

Living in gratitude for God's abundant grace and sustained by the Holy Spirit to serve in Christ's name.
The Ministry of Cross Roads is guided by these core values:

HOSPITALITY

We seek and serve Christ in all people, providing a safe and welcoming place for all God's children.

FAITH

We are an intentional and joyful Christian community that nurtures lifelong faith formation, raises up leaders, and celebrates God's presence in our lives.

PARTNERSHIPS

We partner with individuals, families, groups, faith communities, and organizations to meet the emerging needs of a changing world.

GROWTH

We offer a caring and supportive faith-filled environment for healthy risk-taking to promote physical, spiritual, social, and emotional growth.

CELEBRATION

We celebrate the rich diversity of God's people as we laugh, pray, play, and sing together in an authentic community.

COMMUNITY

We gather as the Body of Christ, forming and strengthening courageous relationships with God, Creation, and one another.

NATURE

We experience, cherish, and delight in the natural world as we spend time in an outdoor setting and learn to care for God's creation.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The land upon which we gather is part of the traditional territory of the Lenni-Lenape, called “Lenapehoking.” The Lenape People lived in harmony with one another upon this territory for thousands of years.

During the colonial era and early federal period, many were removed west and north, but some also remain among the continuing historical tribal communities of the region: The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation; the Ramapough Lenape
Nation; and the Powhatan Renape Nation, The Nanticoke of Millsboro Delaware, and the Lenape of Cheswold Delaware.

We acknowledge the Lenni-Lenape as the original people of this land and their continuing relationship with their territory. In our acknowledgment of the continued presence of Lenape people in their homeland, we affirm the aspiration of the great Lenape Chief Tamanend, that there be harmony between the indigenous people of this land and the descendants of the immigrants to this land, “as long as the rivers and creeks flow, and the sun, moon, and stars shine.”