We hope you had a great Easter!

Please be praying this weekend for our 11 High School Students and 4 Leaders that are going to Island Lake. That the focus for each person would be a time to engage in the messages and for honest and open conversations!

Peace!

UPCOMING EVENTS

Fellowship Feast

Sunday, May 5th
Johnson Hall
After Service

Please bring:
A-O: Main Dish
P-T: Side or Salad
U-Z: Dessert

Rockin’ Seniors Events

Friday, May 10th

Lunch at Ambrosia
Guest Speaker: Richard Le Mieux
Author of “Breakfast at Sally’s”

Sign up at the Connection Point. 
$12 (+ tip) per person to be paid at time of event

Rockin’ Seniors sponsor an event every 2nd Tuesday of each Month at Ambrosia.

VBS- Save the Date

July 22nd – 26th

In The Wild – Amazing Encounters With Jesus

“these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.” John 20:31

Wonders Of Learning Preschool

Registration is available for 3 Day PM openings for the  2019-2020 school year.

Please contact the Wonders of Learning Office: 360– 337-1978.

Adult Classes

Discipleship Class: 7 Disciplines for Spiritual Growth
Sundays at 9:00 am in  Johnson Hall
Our next class begins Sunday and goes through June 23rd in Johnson Hall. We will be exploring disciplines to spiritual growth.
Led by: Debi Crutchfield

Around the Table Bible Study (Men)
Wednesdays Room 115, 6:30pm
Contact Rick Tomlinson for more information

Women’s Bible Study
Tuesday, May 7^th
“The War Room” Movie
10am-12pm
Room 113
All women invited!

“One in a Million- Journey to Your Promised Land”
By Priscilla Shirer
Every Tuesday May 14^th– June 25^th
10am-12pm
Room 113

Sign up at the Connection Point to order a workbook: $15.

Celebration of Life for Barbara Hanyes

Saturday, May 11th
11:00 am
In the Sanctuary

Please join the Haynes family in celebrating Barbara’s life!

Welcome into Holy Week. We have a lot of opportunities this week to help you enter into the story of Jesus’ death and resurrection, the story of our salvation. And it’s a beautiful thing to see our annual events forming into family traditions! 

• 4/18/19: Welcome to the Table: Last night was our second annual Seder Meal Celebration. We feasted together with a traditional Passover meal, remembering the God who rescued his people out of slavery in Egypt, but we did do so “in” the upper room with the disciples, sharing the Last Supper with Jesus- the Passover meal during which Jesus announced a new Passover, a new salvation from slavery to sin and death!

• 4/19/19: Welcome to the Cross: Tonight  (7:00 PM) is our third annual Good Friday Service at the Bremerton Performing Arts Center (see parking map below). Eight churches will gather together, around the Cross, as the one Church of Kitsap County, and behold the death of our Savior through the eyes of Isaiah (Isaiah 53). 
  • BONUS: The Church of Kitsap County has a history of partnering for Kingdom work: check out how The Kitsap Sun testified to our (Crossroads and Peninsula Bible Fellowship) united effort to welcome asylum seekers to their new home in Bremerton decades ago, and the legacy of hard work and service they’ve left: click here).
• 4/21/19: Welcome to the Empty Tomb: Sunday Morning (9:30 AM)before the service, we will gather for an Easter Fellowship Brunch in Johnson Hall. Then we will gather in the sanctuary to celebrate the most important Day, the most important event, in human history–the Day death lost its sting and life found its salvation! 

Parking Map for Good Friday service:
 

UPCOMING EVENTS

Men’s Breakfast

Saturday, April 20th
9:00am

Andy and Cindy’s Diner

Rockin’ Seniors Events

Friday, May 10th

Lunch at Ambrosia
Guest Speaker: Richard Le Mieux
Author of “Breakfast at Sally’s”

Sign up at the Connection Point. 
$12 (+ tip) per person to be paid at time of event

VBS- Save the Date

July 22nd – 26th

In The Wild – Amazing Encounters With Jesus
John 20:31
   “these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.”

Wonders Of Learning Preschool

Registration is available for 3 Day AM and PM openings for the  2019-2020 school year.

Please contact the Wonders of Learning Office: 360– 337-1978.

Adult Classes

Dicipleship Class: 7 Disciplines for Spiritual Growth

Our next 9:00am class will start on April 28th in Johnson Hall. It will be a 7 week class to explore disciplines of spiritual growth.
Led by Debi Crutchfield

Around the Table Bible Study (Men)
Wednesdays Room 115, 6:30pm
Contact Rick Tomlinson for more information

Women’s Bible Study
He Speaks to Me– Preparing to Hear from God
by: Priscilla Shirer
Tuesdays until April 30th Room 113,10:00am
Contact Sue Erickson for more information

Fellowship Feast

Sunday, May 5th
Johnson Hall
After Service

Please bring a dish to share in fellowship!

This past weekend was our annual Crossroads Women’s Retreat! The retreat was held at beautiful Camp Indianola overlooking the Puget Sound. There were 36 women who got away together to experience rest and recovery in the presence of Jesus, and I have already heard of many who were in agreement: “This retreat was just what I needed.”

The theme for this year’s retreat was Recover, based on Matthew 11:28-30, which is an invitation for each of us to get away with Jesus and recover our lives. While the retreat leaders are undoubtedly gifted women and leaders within our church, and while the retreat space was undoubtedly beautiful and calm as it overlooked the Puget Sound, the retreat was meaningful and powerful most of all because Jesus showed up. He showed up in a real way and spoke and ministered to those who had responded to his invitation to come to him and rest. 

Whether you went on the women’s retreat or not, God invites us into a weekly rhythm of rest that he calls Sabbath. In the creation story in Genesis 1, the first full day that humans have after God creates them is the Sabbath. They rest first, and work second. And the seventh day is only day in Genesis 1 that never ends — Sabbath is the day that is meant to overflow into every other day of the week. Rest is meant to shape our work, not the other way around.

And God invites us into a daily rhythm of practicing his presence. Many of us read scripture or devotionals as a daily practice, and that is a good thing. But Jesus doesn’t need a devotional to speak to you. He wants to speak directly to you too, by His Spirit. And Jesus wants to give you rest in his presence every day, to encourage and support and care for you. 

So, I would encourage you to take a moment this week stop from the busyness and lists and to-dos that so much of life involves, and to hear Jesus’ invitation to you: “Are you tired? Are you worn out? Are you burned out on religion? Come to me Get away with me and you will recover your life. Walk with me and work with me — watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me, and you will learn to live freely and lightly.” 

Best,
Sam Donica
Pastor to Youth & Families

UPCOMING EVENTS

Lent Prayer Gatherings

Rockin’ Seniors (60+) Events

Nominating Committee

Your Governing Board has begun the work of forming a Nominating Committee.   Once established, this committee serves our body by providing our members with the names of willing and qualified individuals to be voted on for our Governing Board.   If you have a nomination for the nominating committee, you will need to: speak with the individual (to assure they are a member of Crossroads and are willing to serve) and then submit their name to Anne Adamson.

Nominations are due April 14th and the membership will vote on a date to be determined.

Spring Grounds Work Party

Men’s Breakfast

Saturday, April 20th
9:00am

Andy and Cindy’s Diner

Holy Week Events

Seder Meal
Thursday, April 18th
5:30-7:30 pm
Johnson Hall
Last day to sign up is Sunday, April 14th!

Good Friday Service
Friday, April 19th
7:00 pm 
Bremerton Performing Arts Center

Easter Brunch
Sunday, April 20th
9:30 am
Johnson Hall
Come enjoy brunch before the service!

Adult Classes

VBS – Save The Dates

July 22nd – 26th

In The Wild – Amazing Encounters With Jesus
John 20:31
   “these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.”

Wonders of Learning Preschool

Registration is NOW open!
Please contact the Wonders of Learning Office: 360– 337-1978.