Because Crossroads as an international church is a transient place with many people coming in and going out, we want to make sure that we welcome you. Either we ask for you to introduce yourself with one or two sentences or we ask you to fill in a Welcome Card. Nothing obligatory, it is just to make sure that you are being heard and seen. But if you’d rather not want this, just lay low and nobody will bother you.

There might be a collection during the service. Don’t feel obliged to give if you don’t feel like it. We are not after your money. We hope you can engage with what is going on in the service in the first and foremost place. There will be many more that don’t give in the money collection baskets, as many give through the bank. You won’t stand out if you let the basket pass by.

During the service we sing songs before and after the message. Singing may come in a variety of styles, but mostly it is quite contemporary. The words to each song will be projected on a screen, but you do not have to sing if you don’t want to.

Almost always there is preaching in which a topic is highlighted from a Biblical angle or a Bible passage is explained with its relevance to our every day life. The message preached is approximately 30 minutes.

We hope that the preaching will provide you with a thought-provoking experience, and that it will make a difference in your life.

At the end of the service, there is an opportunity to pray with someone if you want in the ‘prayer corner’ on the left front side of the auditorium. Maybe about something that came up in the church service, maybe there’s a need that you want to lift up in prayer with someone else, perhaps something you want to be thankful for with someone else. Our prayer partners are available for you after each service. But again… no pressure whatsoever!

After the service, you are invited to a cup of coffee or tea with some little snacks in our Amici Coffee Bar. It is our intention that it will do what it is called: making many amici over coffee and tea.

There are separate programmes for kids from 0 to 15  (crèche, Sunday school classes and groups for teenagers), where they can engage with faith and the Bible in their own way.

Children and youth can make their way to their groups when it is announced during the church service, somewhere 10 or 15 minutes into our time together.

During the 09:30am Sunday morning service there are the following children and youth gatherings:

• Creche (child care) ages 0-3
• Pre-School and Kindergarten, ages 3-6
• Green and Blue Groups, ages 7-10, grades 2-5
• Fuel, younger youth, ages 11-14/15

During the 11:15am Sunday morning  service there are the following children and youth groups:

• Creche (child care) ages 0-3
• Pre-School, ages 3+4
• Kindergarten, ages 5+6
• Green Group, ages 7+8, grades 2+3
• Blue Group, ages 9+10, grades 4+5
• Younger teens, ages 11-14
• Older teens, ages 15-18/19

The Sunday school classes use a curriculum from Scripture Union in the UK.

The youth groups use a curriculum called ‘Grow’ from the US.