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2 Westminster Campus Crossroads Kids Please pick up your children promptly after the service. I Years Old Volunteers will be available in the nursery/preschool area 10 minutes prior to the start of each service. 252 Main Street Elementary School Students Students are dismissed during the service. SERVICES & CAMPUSES 895 Leidy Rd. Westminster, MD 1041 South Carroll Street Hampstead, MD 8:00am Sunday Service No children's programs 9:30am Sunday Service KIDS: Infant-5th grade & middle school 11:00am Sunday Service KIDS: Infant-5th grade 9:30am Sunday Service KIDS: Infant-5th grade & middle school 11:00am Sunday Service KIDS: Infant-5th grade Warehouse Student Ministries ATTENTION! Hear/Say Listening Sessions to be held January 8th for all parents and students in High School or Middle School 6th-8th graders 9:30am Both Campuses C3 will meet Sundays at 9:30am in the Warehouse in Westminster & the room off of the lobby in Hampstead. 9th-12th graders High School Breakfast Both Campuses C4 students will be meeting for breakfast, on the 4th Sunday of every month.

3 I-5 & 252 Think Orange Yoga Session Saturday, January 7th, 10:00am Join us in Hampstead to celebrate the end of a wonderful year of learning together in Christ! We will tie together our Bottom Lines from the year and have some fun while doing it! Who: All preschool-5th graders welcome to attend, with a parent. What: A short yoga session geared toward expanding our basic truth faith & joy. There will also be snacks and a small craft for all! For Questions or more information contact Wendy Kilroy - wkilroy@crossroads140.com. C3 Middle School Wyldlife NSND January 15th, 7-9pm It s time for a Who Dun It mystery night! Join us for No School Next Day on January 15th at the Hampstead campus. The mystery unfolds at 7pm! Next Steps Coming This Month Our Information Center has a new face in Hampstead! We are proud to announce the launch of Next Steps, our new hub for information, registrations, and ministry area event promotions. Check us out after the service! Capernaum Club Tuesday, January 3rd Meets Every Month! Club events are held at the Westminster campus in the Warehouse from 6-7pm. Join us for a regular club meeting to share the love of God with other special needs students! 712 Night of Music Wednesday night, January 3rd at 7:12pm Westminster Campus 712 s Night of Music is open to ALL! somethings will meet Wednesday evening every 7:12 for break out groups, service ministries, worship, and fellowship mark your calendar & join us!

4 Baptism Services January 1st Come celebrate New Life with us in the New Year! Listen to the amazing stories of what God is doing in people s lives right here at Crossroads. No 8am service. Service Times: 9:30 & 11:00am Hampstead 9:30 & 11:00am Westminster Student Ministries Hear/Say Sessions January 8th Now is the time for prayerful planning of our future vision for student ministries! Please join us for our final listening session to share ideas and thoughts with one another. Listening Session will be held January 8th in Hampstead:. Parents: 12:45pm & Students: 1:45pm Questions? Contact Kevin Syes, ksyes@crossroads140.com IF:Westminster Women s Conference Friday, February 3rd & Saturday, Feb 4th IF's mission is to gather, equip and unleash women to pursue Jesus and the calling He has put on their lives. This 2-day gathering will bring together women across Carroll County to look at one of the most influential generations that have ever lived the early church. Cost is $10 for the weekend, including Saturday lunch. All women are welcome! Register Now at ifwestminster.com. Study Tool: Go Deeper Young Life Ventures: A 3-Year Journey Thru the Bible Devotional All-new devotionals, great for individual or group study! Take a journey through the Bible. Free devotionals are available at the Resource Center. Why not go deeper? JANUARY CHRONICLES 1-29 Text to Give Give from your smart phone! Text crossroads140 to 77977, then click the link. Enter your info, and you re done!

5 Discover The Bible Sundays starting January 8th at 9:30am Westminster only Discover the Bible is a 6 week class that will look at what the Bible is, why you can trust the Bible, and why and how to study the Bible. Register at crossroads140.com/discoverseries Monday Night Care Groups Monday nights starting January 23 Westminster Campus Monday Care Nights begin again on Monday, January 23rd from 6:30-8:00pm and run for 8 weeks. These groups address specific life issues or seasons of life. This winter s groups will include Care for Kids, Prayer Workshop: Freedom Tools, Body & Spirit, Healing Steps: Recovery, Marriage Crisis, Minds Renewed, and Step-family Support. Children s ministries available through Care for Kids group. Registration begins this month; go to crossroads140.com/care for information. Discover Crossroads Sundays starting January 8th at 9:30am Westminster and Hampstead Discover Crossroads is a 6 week class that covers our church s history, mission, vision, values, and statement of faith. You will meet members of our staff, leadership, and get an inside look at what makes Crossroads unique, as well as how to become a member. Register at crossroads140.com/discover-series Starting Point Sundays starting February 19th at 9:30 & 11am Westminster and Hampstead Starting Point is a conversational environment where you can explore faith and experience community. A place to explore what you believe, begin your faith journey, or reignite your faith. Groups being February 19th and run for 8 weeks. Register at crossroads140.com/discover-series.

6 A New Home for the New Year Men of Standard Move into the James House Last month, we introduced you to our Men of Standard ministry in Westminster, MD, It all started when a little church was planted out of a heart to give addiction recovery members a place to worship where they felt they fit in. Everett and Robin Frye began Crossroads Restoration church to minister to recovering community members and give them a sense of belonging and accountability. Our Church now partners with them in support of their commitment to establishing a faith-based recovery program that worked to transform members on the inside as well as the outside. Men of Standard became a fully functioning ministry. Members must complete 3 tiers of the program before being released (or graduate). Now, these men have begun to step out in leadership through missions around our county and across borders, in the name of Jesus, with the help and support of Crossroads Church. Tito, the first Men of Standard graduate, helped plant Men of Standard with Everett and is now running and operating two further missions with other men from the group. He oversees our Nica Works! partnership, and runs the shop that collects, breaks down, and packages the bikes to send to Nicaragua for restoration and resale. In addition, he leads our partnership with Helping Up Mission in Baltimore, to bring the Food Pipeline ministry to those in need in Carroll County. Last month, the community home for Men of Standard was condemned after a large fire destroyed the property. The men were evacuated, cared for, provided for, and hosted through church members and Helping Up Missions. Through God s grace they have found a new home officially moved into James House in Taneytown, MD on December 11th. The owners, Roxanne and James (who live next door), want to continue to be involved with recovery ministry. The James house has been filling needs in recovery through Carroll County for quite a few years and are extremely excited about the new possibilities they will be part of with Men of Standard. James is a mechanic and will be providing mechanical training to many men in the program in his garage right on the property. The home is more spacious and will cost less per month for the ministry as James and Roxanne will be helping with utilities. God s continued faithfulness in providing and caring for these men is evident! Over the 2017 year, Men of Standard plan to finish the attic into additional bedroom space, as well as the summer kitchen as an office for Everett. Donations for building completions are welcome at any time! Contact Tim at tadams@crossroads140.com.

7 Taking God s Love Abroad We re Headed to Nicaragua! Miguel (a Men of Standard Graduate) and our Missions team are preparing for a Medical trip to Nicaragua to assist in work at the local clinic serving the same area as our Nica Works! bicycle ministry! NicaWorks! Is an independent ministry that was started by Crossroads and another partner church. NicaWorks! mission is to help impoverished Nicaraguans break the cycle of intergenerational poverty by providing real opportunities for economic, social, educational, and spiritual growth. They work in several communities with Nicaraguan church partners to share the Gospel and address the root causes of poverty. There focus is on providing increased access to education, employment, healthcare, and agricultural development. Teams from Crossroads take trips to serve in these two communities several times per year. A team 15 folks from Crossroads will be heading to Nicaragua with our strategic partner Nicaworks! January 12th to the 17th. Our team will be hosting medical clinics in four of the communities that NicaWorks! Tim Adams and Steph Albright head our Missions ministry at Crossroads and partner with many local ministries and teams like Crossroads Restoration to take the love of God outside our walls. We believe that missions is Loving people who find themselves in a hard place by offering practical hope, caring relationships, and tools to grow in their spiritual life so they can experience grace, mercy, dignity and transformational life change. We want people everywhere to know our missions philosophy here at Crossroads Church, says Tim, and that the love of God has no boundaries. Current needs for our trip are listed on the back of this story in our SERVE section of the monthly. If you re interested in donating some much needed items for our trip, participating in a trip yourself, or getting involved with Men of Standard, contact Steph - salbright@crossroads140.com.

8 Care for Kids Mondays nights starting January 23rd Westminster Campus Care for Kids team provides ministry to children (infants through pre-teen) while their parents attend a Monday Night Care Group. Monday nights starting January 23rd from 6:25-8:05pm at the Westminster Campus. Volunteers to assist are welcome & needed! Contact careforkids@crossroads140.com with any questions or visit crossroads140.com/calendar-item/care-for-kids to sign up. Nicaragua Medical Trip Donations Needed! Collections being gathered all month in Both Campuses Can't go to Nicaragua but still want to be a part of the ministry? We need your help! Below are a list of items that you and your family can donate. All of these items will be used during our January Medical Mission trip to Nicaragua: DONATIONS NEEDED: Brown paper bags Triple Antibiotic Ointment Hand Sanitizer Vitamin C tablets Pregnancy Tests Hydrocortisone Cream Athlete's foot cream Antacid/Tums Multivitamins (all ages) For questions or to donate items, contact Steph at salbright@crossroads140.com Volunteers Needed Lobby Hosts - Hampstead We are looking for lobby hosts to serve our new campus! Daily 3hr shifts, Mon through Fri, throughout the week in the Hampstead building to assist with directing deliveries, bundling weeklies and monthlies, and miscellaneous office duties. Contact Terry at tsmith@crossroads140.com to volunteer! Do Something Saturday Saturday, January 14, 8:45am-12pm We will be lending a hand with our friends at NESAP on Saturday, January 14th. Meet at the Hampstead campus and we will walk across the street together. Duties will include organizing donations and minor repairs. Contact: Steph Albright at salbright@crossroads140.com