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…
Habitat PCA House Build
Crossbridgers, starting in February of 2011 Miami’s PCA churches will start building their next home. This year we will be joined by Redlands Community Church on eight Saturdays beginning February 12th and finishing on April 2nd. Community groups, this is an excellent opportunity for you to come together and get your serve projects in. Individual volunteers are also encouraged to attend and serve by…
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….
Haiti Update – Day 5
Yesterday was our final medical ministry day. We treated approximately 150 people at a church/school close to the GCA guest house. We arrived about 9:30 am and finished by 4 pm. We then packed up and walked down the road in procession with the neighborhood kids who carried all the bags. It was quite a site. Later, the youth group…
Haiti Update – Day 4
It’s about 7 am on day 4. Our pharmacy is in process of inventory after seeing approximately 700 patients in 2 days. We took a collection from the team last night and will attempt to purchase some more meds from a local pharmacy. Today our dentist is returning to the Mirebalais church to finish up with a few stragglers and…
Haiti Update – Day 3
We arrived back at the Mirebalais church this morning to find about the same amount of people needing medical care as when we arrived yesterday. I don’t think we will be able to see them all. There are more than a hundred children waiting to see our pediatricians. Their malnutrition is evident from the discoloration of their hair. They suffer…
Haiti Update – Day 2
We arrived at the local church and had our mobile clinic up and running by 8:30. The church was crammed with over 300 people waiting, most arriving before dawn. This is the first time a free medical clinic has ever come to this town. By noon our doctors had seen over 100 patients and our dentist had performed over 15…
Haiti Update – Day 1
Yesterday we left Miami (very) early and arrived in Port au Prince in less time than it takes some of us to commute to work. Amazing that such a poor country exists minutes from the US. Navigating the airport was an adventure in and of itself. We drove through PAP and saw the massive destruction caused by the earthquake and…
Bowling for Brazilian Babies
We would like to invite everyone to come out and Bowl for Brazilian Babies. Our service project is for a women’s health clinic in Recife, Brazil. We will be collecting prenatal vitamins, folic acid, and DHA to benefit the expectant moms.
HAITI RELIEF: Mission Trip
Crossbridge Joins GCA on Medical Mission to Haiti We are sending a medical mission to Haiti from Wednesday, June 16th to Sunday, June 20th in conjunction with the Great Commission Alliance. We will operate and staff a medical and dental clinic for refugees from the earthquake in a town called Mirebalais about an hour outside Port au Prince. We will…
EMERGENCY CALL: Haiti Relief Effort
Crossbridge is partnering with GCA (Great Commission Alliance – www.gcanet.org) to send monetary gifts, non-perishable items and bottled water to Haiti next week. This is the time to really come along and make a huge diference!
