Here are some of us at the Pride parade, June 12, 2011!

Congregational portrait:

Easter 2010

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

 

 

 

 

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. 

 

 

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 church council Jan. 8 Dirlam Lounge Intergenerational Sunday School Jan. 15, 9:30 Dirlam Lounge Potluck and film: "The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil" Jan. 15 noon Trinity Presbyterian Church, 200 S. Howard St. Fellowship Room  Special guest preacher Tony Stoik  Jan. 22  Dirlam Lounge   Let your light shine Pre-assembly

 

 

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. You want to talk to her sooner, send an e-mail. (See above.)