We’re closing up on our first week of SummerLINK in Clemson and eager for the summer ahead. After our orientation at the lake (big thanks to the Yost’s for hosting us!), we jumped in right away serving with Sunday morning worship and then shuffling chairs...
Each week we get to attend staff meetings, visit with and have dinner in elders’ homes, and learn about a different ministry within the life of Crosspoint, while seeking to serve and share with the lost in the community. Highlights of our week are definitely...
Leading the Clemson Summer LINK Team has been an incredible experience for me. I never expected to get the opportunity to co-lead a Summer LINK Team, so when I was asked to lead I was immediately overtaken with excitement, as well as anxiousness. Excitement, because...
It’s amazing how time can fly by! We are already halfway into Clemson Summer LINK with only 4 weeks left and it feels like just yesterday that we began. As soon as Summer LINK started, we hit the ground running. Within our first week, Crosspoint Church...
Things are just getting started for Summer LINK here in Clemson, but even at the beginning of our journey it is hopeful to see the Lord already at work. To kick things off, we headed out to the lake for an orientation weekend with the...
Before I share what American Christianity means let me share about Frank. A friend of mine, Byron, described Frank as a person who is not your typical church folk or someone who is well known. Frank, a man in his late forties or early fifties,...
I never imagined spending much time in a culture different from my childhood and high school experience. Honestly, I never really put much thought into culture in general--that is until my college friends asked me to plan a day of games in honor of the...
I have always wanted to work with children. From the time I started kindergarten until my high school graduation, anyone who asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up heard the same answer…a teacher! I was thrilled to teach preschool when I...
“…The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt made this phrase famous in his 1933 inaugural speech after defeating incumbent Herbert Hoover in an absolute landslide in the 1932 election. To his credit, Hoover tried; but with the stock market crashing into a...
This time of year, travel, vacation time, hosting or visiting with friends and family, and New Years leads many of us to be either drained and discouraged or excited and resolute for that “fresh start” of the change from dates ending in 2017 to 2018. ...