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Crossroads United Church of Christ

an open and affirming congregation

Pastor: the Rev. Julia Tipton Rendon

 

 

 
Sunday School is at 9:30, worship is at 10:30 through May 20
May 27 begins our summer schedule of worship at 9:30 and no Sunday School
Come!  This means you!

 


Pride 2011


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



Congregational portrait:

Easter 2010

Congregation
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  
Making beads for Pride Parade every Wednesday at 7 Ann's house  
Church council meeting June 3 after worship Dirlam  
Bike ride and picnic June 3 1:00 See detailed instructions below!  High Trestle Trail.  
Worship at Capitol complex and then march in the Pride Parade June 10 noon TBA  
 

Bike ride and picnic June 3, 1:00

Drive to Woodward and take Highway 210 to the north side of town.  The parking lot and picnic area are right near the yellow water tower and grain elevators.

Woodward trail head

 

water tower

 

 

Okay, so we'll plan to picnic at the area just east of this red building, and people who aren't riding can hang out there.  From here it took me 17 minutes to ride to the High Trestle Bridge.  

 

We can drop rocks off the bridge and otherwise enjoy ourselves, then ride back to Woodward!

 

Or if you want to leave from the Madrid access point, you get off of Highway 210 just about a mile west of Madrid:

Madrid.  There's a little sign that says "High Trestle Trail Bridge," and you turn southopposite a sign on the north side north for "QF Lane."

 

 

 

 

 

 

Church council minutes

Jan. 8, 2012

 

 

 

 

 


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.)