Community Outreach Ministries
Career Support Ministries
Crossroads offers a couple of ministries geared toward helping you find a job or enhancing your current occupational life. Even better, both ministries are mindful of a career-person's schedule.
Career Transition Workshop
When it started, Crossroads Bible Church’s Career Transition Network was one of the Dallas area's first church-based groups to help people searching for employment.
The network now hosts a free Career Transition Workshop eight months out of the year. Human Resource professionals specialized in recruitment and staffing teach advanced skills, techniques and secrets for job-hunting strategies:
- Utilizing the Internet in your job search
- Job search strategies
- Resume writing
- Networking
- Interviewing
- Negotiating techniques
The workshop is for those who are unemployed, under-employed or just seeking new employment. We open the workshop with a time of prayerful support and encouragement from the Bible. People get to know one another and exchange information about possible employment. We also connect people via the Internet to a wide variety of local job leads.
The Next Workshop Will Be September 8, 2012
Registration will be available after August 1.
Career Network
We have a weekly career support ministry that meets on Wednesday nights, 6:30pm, at Crossroads.
The CBC Career Network is free to all and offers job search support, resume advice, some networking, and lots of encouragement.
Led by Human Resources professional Rex Jones. Enter through the lower CBC entrance and the meeting is located straight through the double doors.
Other Career Resources
Have your checked out the Southlake Focus Group? It is a Networking Group for Job Seekers with a diverse membership covering Sales, IT, HR, Operations and more. More information is available on the Southlake Focus Group website.
Christian Community Action
Kids Eat Free
Every summer, we adopt a housing center in Lewisville to provide weekly lunches for their children. This is needed because during the school year the kids are fed thanks to the low-income school lunch program. But during the summer
the kids sometimes go without. So Christian Community Action (CCA) started the Kids Eat Free lunch initiative to fill the gap. We usually recruit volunteers to serve June-August.
Contact Susan Myers, Community Ministries co-coordinator
Operation Hotel Clean Sweep
Many people travel as a regular part of their job. If you're such a traveler and you've collected various hotel toiletry items during your journeys, we'd love to have them. We collect hotel toiletries and give them to CCA. You can find a collection bin in the Ministry Center portion of the church lobby.
Contact Susan Myers, Community Ministries co-coordinator
McFadden Ranch TYC Facility
Crossroads has become active in working with troubled teenage boys at McFadden Ranch, a juvenile facility. Through volunteering and mentoring, we have the ability to enhance the life of young men and show them the hope and love of Christ. That way, when they return to their home communities, they are truly changed.
McFadden Ranch website: http://www.tyc.state.tx.us/programs/mcfadden/index.html.
Online volunteer application: http://www.tyc.state.tx.us/programs/volunteer.doc
Contact John Beré, Community Ministries co-coordinator
Prison Ministries
We have active ministries to several prison facilities in the area, the foremost of which is the Denton County jail. Every Monday night a group of CBC members and friends go to encourage the believers there and share the Gospel with those who are in need of a major life change.
Questions? E-mail CBC's Community Ministries
Senior Care Ministry
The CBC Senior Care Ministry team is a group of faithful servants who go weekly to a number of facilities to minister the Word of God through church services and Bible studies.
Weekly services include music, prayer, and a message for those who cannot attend church services because of various health-related reasons. In addition, we may pray with the residents, sing songs as the Lord leads, and often enough we may find ourselves just lending a listening ear to their heart concerns.
God has blessed this outreach ministry tremendously, enabling us to touch their lives as they touch ours with the message of Jesus Christ.
We are currently serving in six different facilities in the area; this list includes nursing, assisted living, rehab, and retirement facilities. There are opportunities for service for those who can deliver a message, play an instrument, lead music, sing along, or to just come and share the love of Christ with these lovely people.
If interested, please contact Dick Knight.
Carter Blood Care Drive
Several times a year, CBC holds a blood drive to benefit Carter Blood Care,
our local blood bank.
Angel Tree
Thanksgiving time finds us supporting struggling families inside our congregation and associated with CCA through the Angel Tree. The Angel Tree is a Christmas tree loaded with angel tags that reveal a specific need. Givers can meet that need anonymously.
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