Sept. 12 and after:: 9:30 a.m. Sunday School, 10:30 a.m. worship

May 30, 2010 through Sept. 5 (Labor Day Sunday): no Sunday School; 9:30 a.m. worship

 

Congregational portrait: Easter 2010

Here we are right after the sunrise service on the deck and right before our potluck breakfast!

 

 

 

Go Deeper

Would you like to develop a deeper spirituality, resilience and wisdom?  Join us this summer for sharing and reflection on our prayer times.  Follow the prayers at www.sacredspace.ie.  For more information, contact Julia at pastor *at* crossroadsucc *dot* org.

Activities

 

We serve two meals a month at the Catholic Worker House in Des Moines. 

 

We also serve a free meal on the last Thursday of every month (except November, the penultimate Thursday) at the county administration building.  We find that eating together in a relaxed and welcoming atmosphere feeds more than just the body.

 

Several of us go together to the Ames Theologian in Residence every year and discuss him or her hotly.

 

PIE Group meets Sunday nights to discuss a book or film and eat pie, at the home of one of our members.

 

All who have time and inclination after coffee hour and cleanup on Sunday meet at HyVee for lunch.

 

We march in the Gay Pride parade every year.  This is a few of us on June 13, 2010.

 

We visit our friends at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota every summer.

 

We have intergenerational Sunday School once a month . . . because it's fun.

 I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.  This makes it hard to plan the day.

E. B. White

About Crossroads UCC

Crossroads United Church of Christ is an open and affirming congregation of the Iowa Conference of the United Church of Christ.  We believe that we are called by God, as Christians, to gather people into community, build them in a relationship with God, and send them into ministry.   We try to make our congregation a place where you can be yourself, and we believe that the practice of hospitality helps us to learn the mind of God.   We are "the church you didn't know you were looking for"--a small but active congregation that is focused on mission, spiritual growth, and community involvement--that doesn't take itself too seriously.   Visitors are always welcome.  If you're looking for a church home, or if you're just curious, please come worship with us!

Event When Where Sharing reflections on our prayer time 7 pm every Thursday June's back porch Get your garage sale stuff to Porters' house all August 109 s. Kenwood Annual salsa party and benefit for the Central Iowa AIDS Project 6:30 - 9:30 August 20 Pickard Park Help organize garage sale stuff  Sept. 10 109 S. Kenwood Second annual garage sale Sept. 11 109 S. Kenwood   Getting ready for Easter Celebrating the Resurrection More ways to celebrate the Resurrection: Easter sunrise service Palm Sunday

 

Worshiping at Smith Chapel on the Simpson College campus

PO Box 811, Indianola IA  50125

tel.: 515-961-9370

email: pastor *at* crossroadsucc *dot* org

 

 

 

Where to find us

We are in Indianola, Iowa, a community of 14,000 just 12 miles south of Des Moines on Highway 65/69. 

 

Crossroads UCC does not own a building.  We meet in Dirlam Lounge in Smith Chapel of Simpson College.  Here is a campus map. 

 

Here is a Mapquest map. 

 

Why no building?

 

Oh, where to begin?

• We like the flexibility of being able to do more ministry and mission, not having to maintain a building.
• We like it that our rent money goes to the good work that Simpson College does.
• We like not having to spend meetings talking about what color carpet to buy for the parlor.

 

Is that why you never answer your phone?

Yes.

Actually we have an answering machine, and our pastor checks messages every Sunday before church. Except when she's on vacation July 5-25.  You want to talk to her sooner, send an e-mail. (See above.)