weekend report

Deering's last weekend with us before heading to Dallas!
Deering's been a faithful friend and valuable part of our ministry!

This weekend could not have been more packed and exciting - except of course for the fact that one of my dearest friends has been called away from Crossroads.













Just take a look at some of the amazingness!

Mission Expo!  Crossroads' partners with 3
foreign mission partners, and 6 local agencies in our community.

Town Square fellowship between services.

A great praise team - a touching added note: 1 of our interns, Ben,
was playing lead guitar with his grandma beside him on flute!
A generational team is a healthy team!

Student Ministry Mission Team ready to depart to
take over Louisville, Kentucky - working with the immigrant
population, sports camps, Salvation Army and other organizations!

Our Student Ministry Mission team - receiving Crossroads' blessing!
We sent a total of 73 on this mission trip - pray for them this week!

Luggage = much preparation for Students mission trip!

Our Setlist:

Announcements on Video including our latest Mayhem commercial for our Cleaning Team!

God Be Praised - New Life
Be Lifted Higher - Gateway
We Believe - New Life Worship
The Whole Earth - Gateway
Our God - Tomlin

Celebration of our volunteers - Video Clips from our Volunteer Picnic last Sunday!
Picnic Recap Video.

Message:  God's Unstoppable Purpose - Deering Dyer (Deering and his wife and son will be leaving for Dallas Theological Seminary soon, this was Deering's final message with us)

Prayer for our Student Ministry Team - Louisville bound!

Exit Song - We Believe

To watch our services go to Crossroadswired.com

To see what other ministries used in their services this weekend go to the worship community.

accomplishments? last week

Giving praise for the beautiful, gorgeous, morning.  Especially since I have a few minutes to soak it all in and to sit quietly before the pace of the day kicks in.

The last week has been productive despite a full day at Cedar Point.

Looking back at the week I'm asking myself what was the biggest accomplishment and what was a waste of time?

My biggest accomplishment...hmmmm

I've been sitting here for 15 minutes and I can't decide.

- Praying for our Elders as they prepare to review candidates - for God's eyes and discernment
-a big hug for someone I've been praying for
-Intentional - specific thank-yous to several people that worked really hard on projects
-Expressing my thanks for getting to be part of the leadership team I'm serving on

There were also projects completed and new guests secured for Crossroads - but I feel that the above are more important.

Relationships - building into lives - mentoring those younger then we are, these are what's most important to me...

On the other hand - what did I do that was a waste of time?  It's only fair to honestly evaluate that as well.

-On my computer too much
-Worrying about a couple of issues...the worry didn't accomplish anything beyond saying the the Lord, "I don't trust you - let me handle this!"    A total waste of valuable time - and worrying  of course hurts only me!
-talking too much instead of REALLY listening

It's easier to list the negative instead of the positive.

With the Lord's help - I'll learn through the careful examination of my past my week, moving forward as I anticipate and enjoy the honor of directing the services this weekend @ Crossroads - preparing to say goodbye to one of my best friends - Deering.   I've just about had all the goodbyes I can take!

What did you accomplish this week?

weekend report

I have never been happier to be part of Crossroads than I am right now!  Our congregation has been amazing in the transition of Pastor Tim taking a different position - they seem to come even more anxious to worship!  It's a blessing!

Pastor Jay Halley blessed us by teaching us this weekend - I was so thankful he was able to come from Sandusky to worship with us and worship we did!

Our setlist:
Announcements:  Deering Dyer - our soon to go to Seminary in Dallas pastor

Great Are You Lord
Lord I Need You
God Is With Us Now
The Whole Earth

Update on Pastoral Search - Mike Sloan, Chairman of Elders

Message:  Pastor Jay Halley





Exit Song:  Great Are You Lord

To watch our services go to crossroadswired.com

To see what other ministries used in their services this weekend, go to www.theyworshipcommunity.com

weekend report

Services were awesome - all about worship and I'm not just talking about the music.  Pastor Tim taught us about worship and we worshiped!  Good to be together in the house of the Lord!

Deering sound-checking with little Matthew!

The team warming up to lead us!

Our Setlist:
Not Ashamed - Gateway
Alive In You - Hillsong
Embrace - Hart
Mighty is The Power of the Cross - Tomlin
Forever Reigns - Hillsong
Prayer/announcements - Deering Dyer
Message:  The Worship of Devotion - Pastor Tim Armstrong
Not Ashamed - Gateway

To watch our services on line go to www.crossroadswired.com

To see what other ministries used in their services go to www.theworshipcommunity.com

weekend report

Wow the weekend came quickly after Christmas - our team was REALLY struggling with the virus going around, but they pushed through and worship was so great!  Deering Dyer spoke about Gideon and we had a great weekend indeed!  Very, Very good to be in the house of the Lord!

Our setlist:

Pastor Tim did the announcements on Video for us this weekend.

God Be Praised/Our God Reigns - New Life
The Whole Earth - Gateway
More Than Amazing - Brewster
The Heart of Worship - Redman
Give Us Clean Hands - Tomlin

The Gideon Protocol: Strength From Weakness- Deering Dyer

The Whole Earth - Gateway

To watch our services go to www.crossroadswired.com

To see what other ministries used in their worship services go to www.theworshipcommunity.com

weekend report

I had to miss our Father's Day services this weekend, but I hear Deering Dyer did an amazing job with the Father's Day teaching!  Deering is our Director over Small Groups and House Churches.

And our praise team and tech teams were as excellent as always!  I am so thankful for them all!!

I won't be posting the music we used this week, but I did have the Father's Day video uploaded in which we used 3 generations to shoot our announcements.  Take a look!

To see what other ministries used in their weekend praise packages go to www.theworshipcommunity.com

To watch our services go to www.crossroadswired.com

I pray God blesses your coming week!

weekend report

We began a new series called JOY today. A three part series that will take us up to our Christmas series which begins on the 18th and 19th. So good!

our setlist:

opening instrumental by Jessica Pounds -such an amazing performance!

announcements by Deering Dyer

More Than Amazing: Brewster
Glorified: we combined an acoustic beginning to rock (Newlife)
Blessed Be Your Name: Redman
Happy Day: Jesus Culture
Message: Joy Pt. 1 - Pastor Tim Armstrong
Ending Worship: Enough - Tomlin

To watch our services go to www.crossroadswired.com

To see what other ministries used in worship this weekend go to www.theworshipcommunity.com

my office is fuller

Love it when my office fills up.

Not with work (which is everyday), but, with my family and friends.

Today is Aaron's first full day here and much has already been accomplished! But most of all, to see how happy my daughter and he are together is so precious!

So as I was saying a full office is a sign that something is happening, hopefully that something is being accomplished and that fellowship is a possibility.

I was just sharing today with a new friend, how much I love our staff at Crossroads. How many of us do life together, not just work and how much we support and love one another...

And then I walked out and saw this. I almost went and got Dan Fleming, our worship leader, to begin mouth-to-mouth. We have known for quite some time that our Small Groups guy, Deering Dyer, is just way over worked, but ministry is tough so we all have to just push through some times!

communion

Tonight was a night of communion.

Earlier tonight, Deering Dyer lead us in a great First Wednesday service at Crossroads ending with communion and the congregation coming forward for prayer with our Elders and Staff.

Next we came home to a dark house - living room lined with candles and nearly 20 college students worshiping and sharing communion. I cannot think of anything I would rather have our home used for. This picture shows how the college students used a cutting board and pan to serve the communion cups. The bread was served in another tray.


Communion is such a meaningful - connecting experience. Jesus served communion to those He considered his best friends, his followers, his beloved.

We did this tonight in remembrance of Him because we are His beloved...so amazing!

weekend report

To watch this service go to www.crossroadswired.com

Wendell Anderson led us in a great holiday weekend, teaching us the 5 things every Christian needs to grow! Worship was just awesome and fellowship in Town Square was a blast!

Our setlist:

Instrumental: America the Beautiful
Announcement Video advertising our 5K run: Deering Dyer (Small Groups Pastor)
Original Praise song: Shout To The King - Milo Sgambellone
Praise: How Great Thou Art - Baloche
Transition by Penny Davis
Worship: Our God - Tomlin
Worship: Inside Out - Hillsong
Message: The 5 Things Every Christian Needs to Grow - Wendell Anderson, Director of Spiritual Maturity
Exit Song: Our God - Tomlin

To see what other ministries used in their worship services go to www.theyworshipcommunity.com

May God richly bless your week!

video shoot meltdown

This morning we shot an impromptu video announcement for the weekend.

Our Small Group Pastor, Deering was the only person doing the speaking. And we got to witness a Pastor melt down as he struggled with the script. (It shouldn't matter that I printed the script off as I ran out the door and he didn't see it until we arrived on site!!)

Shooting videos off site is one of my all time favorite things to do!

You can see the final version this weekend at Crossroads.

our dear deering

Some people are just so easy to tease or take advantage of, such is the case with our dear friend and fellow staff member Deering Dyer. I have been accumulating pictures demonstrating this fact and decided it was time to share...

While he was away - his office was emptied!

Simply because he didn't lock his car (bad mistake) his trunk was emptied!

And taking a break in my office - he should know by now I always have a camera nearby!

Dear Deering, you make us laugh so much!! Thanks for the fun times in the midst of hard work!

Mexican Hat Dance Deering Disaster

We have thematic lunches as a staff the first Wednesday of each month. This month's was Mexican!

The highlight was Deering Dyer, who we affectionately refer to as Dean Deering, since he oversees our Crossroads University Classes and Small Groups.

I would like to leave you with a word of advise, don't ever dance in Flip Flops! Enjoy, I know I did!

don't cheat on God

Those were words from one of my best buddies, Deering Dyer. Deering is our Small Groups Director. God is using Deering in amazing ways at Crossroads. One of the reasons why he is being used I believe is because Deering doesn't feel worthy. What he may not realize is when we feel the most vulnerable, the most out of our element, God steps in big time! This is when we are most usable by God.

Deering taught us tonight on Hosea 9. Tough chapter, tough subject. But God was there and Deering was willing. When Deering explained that Hosea gives us the perfect example of what Christ does for us, it clicked for me big time.

Just as time and time again Hosea had to retrieve his wife Gomer out of a life of sin, so God forgives us over and over. Hosea forgave his sinful wife and provided everything for her, yet she continued to go right back to sin again and again!

Deering challenged us not to 'Cheat on God' by given Him less than our best. I never thought of it that way, but it is so true - God loved us so much He gave us his son, and instead we choose our own sinful desires, again and again. We too are just like Gomer.