We hope that everyone had a great Easter weekend celebrating the resurrection of Christ with your family, friends and fellow believers. Yesterday evening Cross & Crown was privileged to have several families from Luther, Jones and the surrounding area come and join Quail Springs Church of Christ to share the excitement and joy that Easter brings.
Here’s a look at some of yesterday’s Easter egg hunt action!
Cross & Crown will be closed April 2-6. Rock Island youth center and Sunday evening meal and worship will continue its’ normal schedule throughout this week.
Spring Break is upon us and even though our normal functioning ministries are closed for the week there is still much activity in and about Cross & Crown.
Yesterday several couples with young children came from Norman Community Church to team up with some of our neighborhood friends and family to help organize and distribute donated fruit, vegetables, breads and meats. It was a very soggy affair but much work was done in spite of the rainy conditions.
Here’s a look at some of yesterday’s action.
Cross & Crown will shut down its’ normal operating ministries for the week of March 19-23 in order to give our volunteers with school aged youth an opportunity to enjoy Spring Break.
Rock Island youth center will have activities for the youth throughout the week. Email Luke at lwhitmire1@gmail.com if you are interested in the youth schedule.
Sunday night meal and worship will still take place and begin at 6:00.
Melissa shares her story of struggle, redemption, and hope through the blood of Jesus. (Feb. 2012)
It’s time again for The Sing! Come join as we gather for a city-wide worship at the downtown Frontline Church, 1104 N. Robinson Ave, to focus on unity and city transformation.
Worship will begin at 6:00pm and be led by local worship leaders Charlie Hall, Joel Limpic, Marcy Priest, and Stephen Cole.
All services and activities at Cross And Crown will be cancelled February 26th so all can attend.
Rather than adopting families for Christmas as we have done in the past, we are collecting new coats, gloves, heavy socks, boots, hats, blankets, and scarves for children and adults.We also need electric heaters.
*Children all sizes
* Adult XL and XXL sizes only (for layering)
Drop-off at Cross and Crown from now until Friday, December 16th. Items can also be dropped off after Christmas break for the remainder of the winter season. Thank you, as always, for your generosity that keeps our neighbors warm during the cold and harsh elements of winter.
The vision of Cross & Crown is to have indigenous people of the neighborhood be the leaders of Cross & Crown. The original vision for what is now Cross & Crown was revealed to a small group of people from a different neighborhood who felt called to move out of their circle of influence. Cross & Crown, as well as, Rock Island, continue to have significant leadership roles filled by non-indigenous individuals but over our 10 year existence more and more neighbors have began to fill leadership roles.
At Rock Island the same holds true. Ron and I both realize our responsibility with the youth of this neighborhood is not only in leading, advising and mentoring them but also to help them realize their potential in future leadership roles as we do our best to develop their passions and skills in ways that empower themselves and the people of THEIR neighborhood.
Bottom line: The future of Cross & Crown and Rock Island lies in the hands of the people of this neighborhood.
(the following has been done with permission and request (might I add, several requests) of Darvin)
Exhibit A: aka, Darvin
When we first meet Darvin 8 years ago he was just a wee lad at the age of 7. He was quiet, curious and sharp. Not much has changed for Darvin except that now he is starting to spread his social butterfly wings and is quite the conversationalist. He is still very sharp and is one of the more academically advanced students. (Don’t get a big head, Darvin).
Over the course of our 8 year friendship with Darvin we have had plenty of opportunities to see him grow and mature in just about every aspect of his life. With the exception of one or two summer breaks Darvin has made an effort to come be apart of whatever is going on at Rock Island 2-3 times a week for almost 9 years!
Recently, Darvin has shown an interest in being apart of a fundraising experiment Ron and I started to dabble in a couple years ago. With the permission of those donating, we began posting items, such as, furniture and electronics on websites such as Craigslist and Ebay. Any sales made from these postings went directly into the “Rebuilding the Walls” program.
After much deliberation and planning we worked it out so that Darvin could take as much ownership in this venture as he wanted. Because he is of working age and we didn’t want for him to have to choose between making money by getting a “real” job over choosing to hang out with two incredibly awesome, fun, hilarious, thought-provoking men (Ron and I) we decided to forge the two.
Now, Darvin works when he wants by helping pickup donations (when he can), taking all the pictures, uploading the pictures, describing the items and posting the ads online so that others can purchase them. He has seen reasonable success and now get’s to make a little extra change (10% of whatever he sells) while also contributing to the betterment of his very own neighborhood. Not to mention, this, also, allows for him to continue spending some quality time with the two incredible men I mentioned earlier.
The way we, at Cross & Crown, look at it is that it’s a win/win situation.
Earlier in this post I explained how the future of Cross & Crown and Rock Island is held by the men, women and youth of this neighborhood. We can’t afford to lose young men and woman with the skills, knowledge and ‘can-do’ spirit that Darvin possesses. This little scenario is just one small scale example of how Darvin, even at the ripe age of 15, can begin contributing to the future existence and success of Cross & Crown as we strive to serve the people in this often overlooked area of OKC.
Luke
Beacon Fine Homes & Custom Pools is a local home builder in OK. They’ve launched their Design for Change contest! You can design your dream floor plan to impact a community and for a chance to win an iPad! Beacon will donate $1 to Cross And Crown Mission for every Facebook ‘LIKE’ they receive during the contest! Visit the Web Site for all the contest details. Please take five minutes to help us raise funds to help our community!
We look forward to our worship time together this fall. Our first service will be Sunday, October 9th at 6:00 pm. As always, we will begin with a family meal then a worship time. Please make plans to be a part of our Sunday night family this season.
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