FAQs from Town Hall - February 22, 2009

Here is some of the information and questions/answers shared during our 2/22/9 Townhall meeting at Crossroads.

We were happy to have two ruling elders from Grace Church begin our Townhall discussion by sharing a bit about their vision for Crossroads and Grace “moving forward together”. Brian Burkey shared that Grace is trying to move away from being inward focused. While Grace is a great ministry to the Korean community, visitors sometimes feel like they aren’t Korean so they don’t really fit in. Leo Hsu explained that folks at Grace are excited to get to know the members of CPF. Leo attends classes at Covenant Seminary; he’s learned that God leads us onto missions. He wondered where this is seen in ministry today. He quoted Martin Luther King Jr. who said that 11:00 on Sunday morning is the most segregated time in America.

Questions

Can you discuss Kingdom Groups?
Kingdom Group ministry will continue. Grace structures theirs a little differently, Grace Groups. Both Kingdom Groups (KG) and Grace Groups will be available to both sites. People will not have to go to a site-specific KG.

If or when the two sites grow larger, what would be the next step, more sites? a split?
Thoughts are that Dan Song may possibly grow into a site pastor in the 2-3 years. Andrew will start preaching 3 of 4 Sundays. As we go on, Dan would take 2 of the Sundays as we go forward. There is an option to do another site in another place three years down the road.


Isn’t this more like a church plant than a church merger?
If Grace had hired a pastor and created a church plant in Olivette they would have had to go through all of the growing pains we experienced at Crossroads Presbyterian Fellowship (CPF). The church plant pastor would be doing all of this alone, but this way; he will have a cohort of pastors to work alongside with.

Are we going to hire support staff to help with the structure?
Olivette has called Dan Song, and they are looking to hire another pastor to take on the college ministry. We are looking to hire a bookkeeper to take on some of the back office tasks. Doing this together with Grace, will save time for both of our groups.


Are there plans to purchase an Olivette site?
No, not at this time. We have to decide if this is what we really want to do. The launch of the Olivette site wouldn’t happen until the fall of 2009.