When somebody comes on Sunday morning to Crossroads, they're going to be coming to Hudson
Community Chapel's student ministry facility called The Block.
It's a temporary place for us, but we're so appreciative to have it and to be able to
have a place to meet together on Sunday mornings.
It's a cool environment.
It's an old carpet warehouse.
There's no steeple here.
We're using The Block as our launch pad for these off-site campuses and Crossroads is
staging up in there right now.
So when they come to The Block, they're going to park, they're going to come on inside.
There are going to be people at the doors handing out bulletins.
There's a welcome center in the corner that they can get any questions answered that they
want.
The reason I think people would enjoy Crossroads is we're trying to take advantage of the large
church and the small church at the same time.
We've got big church quality in a small church package.
So everything from the music to the media, just look at the room.
The lighting and everything is top notch, but the congregation is accessible.
There's intimacy.
I get to know the people.
They get to know me.
They get to know each other.
So there's that small church feel.
And so I think that's a real part to having kind of best of both worlds, I hope.
We have a lot of kids at Crossroads.
On any given Sunday, we're averaging around 200 in adult worship, nearly 100 back in the
children's ministry.
So that's a healthy ratio.
Also there's a great place called the Cube for your kids, where kids from birth all the
way up to fifth grade get great age specific teaching from the Bible.
They play games.
They sing songs.
It's a great time for them to love it.
I get to work with a great group of people in the band here at Crossroads.
It comes in, they're going to see a guy leading vocals with a guitar, female vocalists, bass
player, keyboard, electric guitar, drums.
They're just a talented group of people.
Anything I throw out of Musically, they can hang right there with me.
One thing we focus on is leading from the overflow of our lives.
So our personal worship just spills out on the stage.
And so I want people to live a life of worship.
And then when we enter into singing, we continue to live a life of worship.
I wish I could just peel back the curtain and everyone could see that God is right there.
And we are in His presence, worshiping the King of Kings, and coming before our Creator,
and the Savior of our souls.
Here at Crossroads, two thirds of the time, we get to hear from the lead pastor of Hudson
Community Chapel, Joe Coffey, and he's a truly gifted communicator.
When Joe teaches at the main campus, which is about two thirds of the time, we video
deliver that message here.
We watch it on the big screen.
You'd be surprised how quickly you forget that you're watching a screen and you just
engage because he does that.
He draws you in and people come out saying, that's a great message.
It's a way we can take advantage of Joe's great preaching and leverage that here at the smaller
campus of Crossroads.
The messages are easy to understand and easy to apply to your life from a new believer all
the way up to someone who's been a Christian for years.
The message is simple.
It's always the gospel.
And I love that about Joe.
He brings us back to the gospel.
The other third of the time, then, I preach here live and in person.
And so Joe and I basically share the teaching mode here at Crossroads.
I had one guy who told me they've been looking for a church for 11 years and they finally
found a church that worked for the full family.
The people love each other.
People love Crossroads and people love whoever comes in the door.
Lives are just being changed here at Crossroads.
Seeing the spirit move in community groups and from the pulpit and just relationally
with people.
And I think it's going to be, I hope and I pray, a great tool of God in letting people
throughout Stowe and Kent and surrounding communities know about him in a very non-threatening
but very enjoyable way.
