An 87-year-old church in Belton, Texas made a pivotal decision during the COVID-19 pandemic to change the way they do church and it is still paying off in ways they did not expect.
Crossroads Church has seen a boom in church attendance and more than 1,000 decisions for Jesus Christ in 2023.
“Like everyone else, we were forced to stop our in-person services beginning in March, but we knew we had to keep meeting the needs of our community and giving people a sense of normalcy that they were so desperately missing,” Crossroad Church’s senior leader Matt Thrasher told AG News.
So they decided to take the church to the streets.
Crossroads staff decided to redirect large portions of its budget funds to local missions and sent teams of volunteers to those outside the church each Sunday.
“We picked up trash, we partnered with local food banks to feed people and worked hard to just care for people during that time,” said Holly Thrasher, Matt’s wife and the church’s co-pastor.
They also decided to hold an outdoor Easter service that year and an estimated 5,000 people attended.
“It was different, of course, but it turned out to be one of the
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