The items appear in Baptist Press as originally published. Fifty years ago, people were drawn to churches as a safe place. With changes in society and media attention on a few negative instances, too many people distrust churches, seeing them as institutions only looking out for themselves.
Calvary is changing that perception in Lake Havasu. We want to create relationships so they will ask us questions. In when Calvary started Crossroads, a Sunday morning service held at the local high school due to space needs on the church campus, it created an influx of people wanting to know about the church. Almost with the first service, Crossroads attendance equaled each of the Sunday morning services at the main church site. Soon the Havasu community asked Calvary to help with a food distribution program to the needy.
Then, Interagency, a social services organization for Lake Havasu City, asked Calvary to help renovate a dwelling for a low-income, single mother of two. Calvary also partners each year with the public school system to provide renovation of buildings during summer breaks, manpower and donations for school carnivals, and teacher appreciation breakfasts on each public school campus. That was the opening to spread the message of Christ because a personal relationship had been made with those asking.
But the end result is worth the change. Staff and church leaders need to talk about what needs to be changed and why. Pre-registration, which will be available at www. This summer, she was happy to come to a place much closer to her heart β Rock Spring church, four miles north of this county seat town in Caddo County, the home of the National Hall of Fame for Famous American Indians, the Southern Plains Indian Museum and the Apache, Delaware and Wichita tribal complexes.
Jackson, a sixth-generation Christian, considered the June trip an historical one β even though some would consider teaching Vacation Bible School to a few children less than noteworthy. Our association started in that area with the Creeks, and then we added the Seminoles and later, the Wichitas.
