Crossroads Community Church — Attraction in Whiteford Township

My family attended Crossroads for their Christmas Eve service. We left feeling devastated and lost. The first message was giving of money. We expect that from all churches now. The second was the reading of the story if the birth of Jesus for the Littles. It was a mockery with actors trying to make it funny. I'm sure the kids did not get it at all. Next was the music of praise, band way too loud, rendition of the carols were way off and couldn't hear the singers. To top the service off the pastor spoke of "God is with us, Emmanual!" Brought into it a video from a local family whose son committed suicide. While I get the underlying meaning, suicide and how the family is dealing with it as part of a Christmas eve service is just not right. My daughter cried through most of the service, my son's girlfriend who comes from a traditional church was mortified and I am speechless as is my husband. We apologized to our family for taking them to Crossroads tonight. Literally, can you imagine feeling like uou need to apologize for taking someone to a church service? This service was so off base. Christmas should be full of hope, joy and the love of Jesus being born. Crossroads missed the mark tonight. 😢 We are all praying tonight. We pray for those who may be feeling truly lost in their faith and hope their conversation with God lead them to feel his love and to...

Good ministers, very decent people, but couple things don't jive with me. 1st I cannot take how the speakers refer to Crossroads in the 3rd person, or is it 4th person, every single time they are addressing the congregation. We are people. Not a franchised building. There tons of words in the English language that can be used to address the congregation. "Crossroads" should not be one of them. 2nd, every song the very talented band plays lasts like 10min. Which wouldn't be a big deal if the song selection wasn't awful. Not hymn-like or gospel enough for the congregation to join in as a whole and not contemporary enough for most people to want to. 30 years of great Christian rock out there and they seem to mostly pick the songs that only 80 year old Christian easy-listening fans can enjoy. Every lyric is just a little too on-the-nose, like were all too stupid to understand metaphor, and the refrain seems to last longer than the main verse of the song. I would rather have a hymnal back sometimes. They also drown your eyes in digital media and over-done special effects. You've arrived to the 2000's, we get it but its 2022 now. Need to tone it down, reel it in, and save it for the truly special occasions. For how big the building is, it never seems at more than 25%-50% capacity. 20 minutes of church and 45 minutes of run-on music...

Our family started visiting Crossroads on 23 in Fall 2024. It was been so uplifting, and my grandson loves it, and is learning a lot about Jesus. The Christmas service this year was not only beautiful, but was very heartfelt and sincere. The service really...