Human Trafficking Workshop
Saturday, May 4th from 10-12pm, Crossbridge is providing a training for awareness of sex trafficking of minors. We’re inviting two local non-profit organizations (Sharing One Love & BeLoved) to bring awareness of how this injustice is happening in our own city and what we can do as individuals and as a community to put an end to it. RSVP to this…
Haiti Missions
XB Youth will be participating in their second missionary trip to country of Haiti. They will be traveling in late July for seven days to help further the construction of a school, medical clinic, and church in the city of Mirebalais. Throughout the day, they will also be providing a vacation bible school for over 100 local orphans that includes…
Habitat PCA House Build
Crossbridgers, starting in March, Miami’s PCA churches will start building their next home. This year we will be joined by 6 other PCA churches on eight Saturdays beginning March 2nd and finishing on April 27th in co-sponsoring a Habitat for Humanity home. Community groups, this is an excellent opportunity for you to come together and serve your city. Individual volunteers are also…
XB YOUTH R(EVOL)UTION
This past month XB Youth made a visit to Florida Baptist Children’s Homes, a faith-based nonprofit organization that provides safe, stable, homes for boys and girls who have been neglected, misdirected, abandoned, abused, or caught up in family turmoil. The focus they’ve decided to take is due to the significant impact the Haiti missions trip had in the lives of some…
World Vision 2013
World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. This past month two of Crossbridge’s very own Jessica Luo and Jorge Reynardus participated with Team World Vision in the Chicago marathon. With challenging weather, battling muscle cramps for nearly twelve miles…
LOCAL MISSIONS: College Adoption Family Group
One of Crossbridge College Students’ top desires is to develop relationships with the couples and families in the church. Let’s help meet this desire and need and help the Crossbridge College Students create roots here in the city of Miami. Sign up with Pastor Sam to be a College Adoption Family Group, where you will host a group of 6-8 college students in your home…
The Big Blue and You
The Big Blue aspires to educate and empower today’s youth to become stewards of the Earth and guardians of the oceans through fun and educational interactions that encourages them to initiate change by being tomorrow’s leaders. To get involved, Join the Club.
Kristi House
Kristi House provides a healing environment for all child victims of sexual abuse and their families, regardless of income, through prevention, treatment and coordination of services with our community partners. Kristi House strives to end the epidemic of child sexual abuse in Miami-Dade County by healing those who have been victims and breaking the cycle of abuse for future generations. Kristi House…
Haiti Missions Trip
Crossbridge will be serving for the second time along with the youth group on mission to Haiti this summer from July 21 – 28. If you are interested please contact Jay Reynardus for more info.
Missions
Crossbridgers!! Visit our new missions page where you can access all of our local ministry serve partners and get updates as to the needs that each partner has on a monthly basis.
Greater Miami Youth for Christ
Every day at thousands of community centers, high schools, middle schools, juvenile institutions , coffee shops and local hangouts YFC meet with young people who need Jesus. Working together with the local church and other like-minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of Jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to prayer and the Word of God and…
World Vision
Over 200,000 people lost their lives and millions were displaced from their homes in light of the devastating earthquake in 2010. World Vision was able to respond in hours with immediate assistance. Now families in Haiti are beginning to recover and rebuild, but the need is still great. For more information please contact cschloug@worldvision.org Present Need: Run for Haiti http://support.worldvision.org/site/TR?fr_id=1511&pg=entry
Inner Change Miami
Urban Resurrection is a local missions team of Inner Change currently focused in the West Grove. Their strategy is to bring about Christ centered transformation by empowering residents to organize, plan for, create and sustain a vibrant, high quality and diverse neighborhood in collaboration with community partners. For more information on how to get involved please contact michael@urbanresurrection.org
Miami Rescue Mission
The Miami Rescue Mission has been serving the homeless of South Florida since 1912. The Rescue Mission provides Christian discipleship programs for adults, out of school programs for youth at risk along with meals, shelter, education and career assistance to the homeless. For more information please contact jfeaster@caringplace.org Present Need: Feed the Homeless http://miamirescuemission.com/volunteer.htm
Florida Baptists Children’s Homes
The Children’s Home is a faith-based organization dedicated to providing Christ-centered services to children and families in need. They have been serving abused, neglected and orphaned children since 1904. To find out more ways to get involved please contact molly.simmons@fbchomes.org Present Need: Miami Campus http://www.fbchomes.org/1/campus_needs.html
Habitat for Humanity
The Miami affiliate of Habitat for Humanity was born in 1989 and is currently focused on building homes in the distressed inner city neighborhoods of Liberty City, Little Haiti and Overtown. Over 800 low-income families have been able to fulfill their dreams by becoming first-time homeowners and moving into Habitat homes throughout Miami-Dade County. For more information on how you…
Touching Miami with Love
Touching Miami with Love has a rich history of serving predominantly the community of Overtown in a holistic way. Programs after school for children, summer camps for children, after school programs for youth and leadership development opportunities in the summer have allowed us to watch our neighborhood grow up before our eyes. Children formerly in our children’s programs and are…
Family & Children Faith Coalition
Since 1999, FCFC has sponsored practical community-wide trainings, provided one-on-one “coaching” and offered useful information and resources to help build the capacity and infrastructure of faith and community – based groups. They’ve encouraged and helped faith and grassroots groups to be more a part of the lives of their local communities by building on local strengths and resources that already exist…
Brickell: School Service Project
This Saturday, January 7th, from 9am-1pm, Crossbridge Brickell is serving at South Side Elementary School, our neighborhood public elementary school, located at 45 Southwest 13th Street, Miami, FL 33130. As a church we want to see our city flourish and we believe the success of our schools is a huge part of this. In efforts to increase the aesthetic beauty…
CHILDREN’S MINISTRY: MIAMI RESCUE MISSION TOUR
Saturday December 10th we are inviting all of our families to join us on a tour of the Miami Rescue Mission. During the month of October our kids collected items for the Mission the tour will help us to understand our community better and create an opportunity for us to see how serving the community is a reflection of God’s grace…
LOCAL MISSIONS
Come join FCFC Mentoring as they seek to come alongside children and youth in South FL who have been impacted by crime with positive role models. On Oct. 11th @ 7pm they will be providing a training right here at Crossbridge Church (Pinecrest) for any one who would like to sign-up to be a mentor. For more information please visit…
COMMUNITY BLOOD DRIVE
On Sunday, Feb. 20th from 10:30 to 12:30 Community Blood Centers of Florida, Inc. will be at Crossbrige Pinecrest. All donors will receive a t-shirt, mini-physical and thank you pack!!!
Haiti: Medical Mission Trip
The dates for the next Crossbridge medical mission to Haiti are to be announced sometime in Jan./Feb. of 2011. We are hoping to recruit about 10 doctors and 10 church members to accompany them. Dr. Dezfulian is coordinating the medical personnel. We are tasked to organize the support staff.
HAITI MISSION TRIP
Thank you Crossbridge for all your prayers during our Medical Mission to Haiti this last week. Your faithfulness and generosity allowed our team of 19 medical professionals and church members to minister to the physical ailments of more than 850 men, women and children in the town of Mirebalais. It was physically, emotionally, and spiritually challenging. But it was good….
