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The small church...
in a big world has remained intimate.
in a fast world has remained steady.
in an expensive world has remained plain.
in a complex world has remained simple.
in a rational world has retained the ability to
feel.
in a mobile world has been an anchor.
in an anonymous world calls you by name.
Cross Roads is a
church that works more like a "family" than a corporation.
Cross Roads rests in the shadows of some very large churches.
Even though we are small, we are growing...
warmer through fellowship,
deeper through study,
stronger through worship, and
wider by serving the needs of others.
Some people prefer growing in large churches. We serve a
community niche for people who want a church that is more like a
family than a corporation.
Sending
Missionaries, Training Pastors, and Starting Churches: Our
Past and Our Future
Cross Roads was the first church to be organized in Pine
Township. We've been in this valley for 176 years.
During that time, Cross Roads has sent a number of men and women into ministry as
pastors or as missionaries. Cross Roads
also started two other local
congregations as mission churches. You may know those churches
as the Gibsonia Presbyterian Church and the
First
Presbyterian Church of Bakerstown.
Cross Roads is part of the Presbyterian Church (USA), a historic
denomination rooted in America's colonial period. Our nation's
founders established a civil government patterned after Presbyterian
principles of government. We belong to a regional body called
the
Pittsburgh Presbytery which consists of PCUSA churches in
Allegheny County.
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