Angel Tree
Mercy Group: Children of men and women in prison
Involvement: Customized (late October-early December)
More Info: www.angeltree.org
Angel Tree Christmas gives churches an opportunity to share Christ's love by helping to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the families of prisoners. Participating in Angel Tree is a powerful way for you to lovingly answer the biblical call to minister to the least of these. CrossRoads makes an annual commitment to this highly rewarding program, and recognizes it as a way to care for some of the most overlooked members of our culture. Angel Tree Christmas works by connecting parents in prison with their children through the delivery of Christmas gifts.
Get Involved:
Small Groups, Families, and Individuals
Help Call families to receive gift requests.
Purchase gifts for children
Help wrap gifts prior to Christmas party
Help/Attend Christmas party
Watch the Angel Tree Promo Video from 2008
For a Specific Mercy Plan contact: Dennis Holden via email.
branded
Mercy Group: Child Prostitution and Slavery in Phoenix, AZ
Involvement: Prayer and Awareness
More info: www.brandedphx.com
Churches, government, market-place leaders, and non-profits have been collaborating to raise advocacy, develop preventative programs, and build a holistic secure community for rehabilitation of those coming out of child prostitution.
It has been the collective belief that the city of Phoenix could be an example to cities in our nation and around the world of the enormous potential when different sectors of society come together to meet physical, spiritual and social needs.
Get Involved:
For Small Groups, Families, Individuals
Raise awareness through visiting the website (www.brandedphx.com) and watching the video and sharing with others.
Pray for:
Abundant Protection and Courage for those on the front lines, fighting to combat this injustice.
Against the darkness that blinds those that enable and perpetuate this destructive cycle.
Every young person enslaved tonight, and tomorrow, and...
The development of programs poised to rescue and restore innocent victims released from the world of slavery.
branded is presently working on tangible ways to fight this injustice from changing legislation to building a safehouse. Updates will be made available.
Child Sponsorship
Nazarene Compassionate Ministries
Mercy Group: Hungry, Poor Children of the World
Involvement: Monthly Financial Commitment
More Info: http://ncm.org/cs/
Nazarene Child Sponsorship is a ministry that engages the sponsors and the local church to act on behalf of children living in poverty by providing a tangible expression of the love of Jesus Christ and developing a personal relationship between the sponsors and the sponsored child. Through your monthly participation, children have the opportunity to receive food, education, job training, life skills, and spiritual guidance.
Be faithful to your monthly financial commitment to your sponsored child.
CrossRoads Nazarene Church currently sponsors 37 different children around the world. It is our sincere belief that we can triple our overall sponsorship.
Family Promise
Mercy Group: Families temporarily without a home
Invovlement: Customize through the week of December 14-21, 2008
More info: http://familypromiseaz.org/
CrossRoads Nazarene Church, along with 16 other churches in the Valley, partners with Family Promise to help temporarily homeless children and their families. The families are hosted in the Youth Building for one week. The families spend their days at the Day Center in Phoenix during the week, and return to the church in the evenings and holidays. We like to make the stay at CrossRoads memorable and fun for these families, as well as providing a safe place to stay and well-balanced meals.
Get Involved:
For Small Groups, Families, Individuals
Basic Needs
Items, supplies, and other necessities requested at the kiosk in the church ramada
Meals provide each night
Overnight hosts each night
Evening hosts each night
Christmas Celebrations
6 decorated Christmas trees for the week
12 filled Christmas stockings for children
Those who will plan, provide for, and work an activity for a Christmas party (10am-12pm) on 12/20/08
Pampering Night
A chair massage therapist (7-8:30pm) on 12/17/08
Manicurist (7-8:30pm) on 12/17/08
Pedicurist (7-8:30pm) on 12/17/08
For more information, please stop by the Family Promise kiosk in the church ramada 11/23, 11/30, & 12/7, and chat with Beverly.
Galveston Community Partnership
Mercy Group: Families of the Galveston Community
Invovlement: Customized
Over the last year, CrossRoads has developed a relationship with families in the Galveston Elementary School area. CrossRoads was privileged to purchase and deliver Christmas gifts to these families last year. We are excited about the opportunity to impact our immediate community once again this year by providing gifts and love to these families. Families can be adopted by small groups, families, or individuals.
Get Involved:
Families can be adopted through contacting Dana Spaite.
Each person should receive a two gifts, one clothing item and one fun item.
Please wrap the gifts and put a gift tag on with the person's name on each present
Please help us by putting a sticky note on the front of each gift indicating with is inside.
Drop off the gifts at the church office no later than noon on Wednesday, December 17th,
Please let us know if you are planning to help deliver presents on December 20th in order to help with the organization. We will need bi-lingual interpreters to help in the delivery to the families.
The LINKS program of the Church of the Nazarene is a network of personal connections between missionaries and Nazarenes around the world. Missionaries are assigned to districts and then connected to local churches. This provides the opportunity to become personally acquainted with a missionary family and their field of service. Typically, churches send packages, cash gifts, cards, and other remembrances to their LINKS missionaries.
The LINKS missionaries assiged to CrossRoads are Michael and Julie Shalley who are presently in Namibia, Africa. To view their online bio, click here.
The retired LINKS missionary assigned to to the Arizona District are Wallace and Mona White. Wallace went to be with the Lord on Saturday, May 3, 2008. She is asking for prayer to find strength and courage to have quality of life without Wallace, to find meaningful relationships at the Assisted Living Center, and to be open to ministry to others. Please email The Mercy Project for her contact information.
Get Involved:
For Small Groups, Families, and Individuals
Write your LINKS missionaries and assure them of your prayers, asking for personal requests.
Send remembrances for special days like birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays. Remember, surface mail takes quite a while to arrive in some locations, so plan accordingly.
Children and youth find it especially meaningful to become personally acquainted with a missionary or a missionary's child. Encourage young people to send cards, small gifts, pictures, videos, and audiocassettes to your church's LINKS missionaries.
Check the Unofficial LINKS Lists by clicking here. Have your LINKS missionaries posted specific needs for their field with which you can help?
To ensure the safety of missionaries, World Mission does not include missionary contact information. If you need contact information for a missionary, please contact our district LINKS coordinator by emailing The Mercy Project.
International Student, Inc.
Mercy Group: International Students
Involvement: Year Commitment
More Info: www.isionline.org/
CrossRoads partners with the ISI Friendship Partner program enabling you to become a friend to an international student. Expense and time can be minimal: have them over for dinner once a month, give them a call once in a while, or invite them to join your family for holiday activities. These relationships are meaningful and make an everlasting impact.
Get Involved:
For Small Groups, Families, Individuals
Participate in being a friend to international students attending ASU.
Open your daily lives to them, invite them to dinner, holidays, ball games, etc.
Fill out appropriate paperwork with ISI to become involved
Thanksgiving
Invite one or more students to Thanksgiving
This allows an opportunity to share God's love with international students
Provides an opportunity to see if God is calling you to become a Friendship Partner during the school year
Meals on Wheels
Mercy Group: Local Men and Women needing food
Involvement: Minimum 1 day; Maximum 15 days over three weeks
More info: http://www.mowaa.org/
CrossRoads Nazarene Church commits to deliver meals to those in need for three non-consecutive weeks. Our vision is for community outreach, ministry to people with dietary needs, and to fulfill the Great Commission in concrete ways. The biggest obstacle is lack of volunteers to deliver the meals.
Get Involved:
October 27-31, 10:30 am-12:30pm
Picked up prepared meals and deliver them around Chandler to 12-13 home
Two separate routes, own transportation needed, at least one person per route
For Small Groups
Commit to supply drivers for entire week (2 min. people per day, 4 preferred)
Families and Individuals
Commit to drive and deliver at least one route on at least one day
Commit to provide a vehicle for transportation
Commit to drive.
Commit to deliver if a driver is available.
For a Specific Mercy Plan Contact: Florence Jacobs 480-963-5678
Pregnancy Care Center
Mercy Group: Women with unplanned pregnancies and their families
Involvement: Counseling - one year; Occasional special events
More info: http://www.pccchandler.com/
Pregnancy Care Center of Chandler (PPC) is committed to assisting women who are facing unexpected pregnancies. All of the services are free and confidential. Since July 2007, PCC has provided over 600 services to women. Of those 600 services, only 4 are known to have chosen a path other than adoption or parenting.
Get Involved:
For Small Groups
Donations of coffee, bottled water, toilet paper, file folders, copy paper, postage stamps, 13 gallon trash bags, paper cutter will help make operating costs manageable.
Provide baby store supplies
Provide awareness
Prayer support
For Individual Ladies
Volunteer counseling (4 hour a week commitment for one year)
Project C.U.R.E.
Mercy Group: Global Healthcare
Involvement: Customized
More info: http://www.projectcure.org/
Project C.U.R.E. exists to identify, solicit, collect, sort and distribute medical supplies and services according to the imperative needs of the world. Project C.U.R.E. is the world’s largest supplier of donated medical supplies and equipment.
Before delivering medical relief, Project C.U.R.E. requires an in-depth, on-sight Needs Assessment study of the recipient organization, hospital or clinic by a representative of Project C.U.R.E. Following the Needs Assessment study, Project C.U.R.E. compiles an inventory list of available medical supplies and equipment from our extensive inventory in the collection centers in the U.S. and the U.K. Generally, Project C.U.R.E. delivers medical relief in 40-foot ocean-going cargo containers. When necessary approvals of the inventory are received by Project C.U.R.E., the cargo container is loaded and transported to a port city and stacked aboard an ocean-going ship.
Get Involved:
For Small Groups, Families, and Individuals
Sort and Package Supplies
Clean and organize equipment
Pick-up supplies (personal vehicle or large truck) from local donors
Prison Ministry
Mercy Group: Inmates and their Families
Involvement: Customized
We can be overwhelmed by statistics on crime, but we believe that hope comes from lives changed through the love of Jesus Christ. The primary objective of Prison Ministry is to be ambassadors for Christ by proclamation and demonstration. Through diversity and unity of lay leadership from local churches we can provide ministry teams to proclaim the gospel and coordinate local ministry programs for those impacted by crime.
Get Involved:
For individuals
Saturday Bible studies, random visitation
Lead Bible Studies, seminars, discipleship, visitation, counseling, transition counseling and guidance, ministering to families and victims, pen-pal.
Sterling House Assisted Living
Mercy Target Group: Assisted Living
Involvement: Customized
The residents would benefit from any further attention, love, and encouragement from our church family. “Spiritual influence” would be welcomed as many of the residents hold dear to their Christian roots. The best opportunity available is to assist in established activities or provide new and additional activities. The residents of the Sterling House would greatly benefit from time spent.
Get Involved:
Events in place:
Friday evening Theme Party once a month
Sunday evening Bingo 6:00 pm-7:15 pm
For Small Groups, Families
Help with daytime field trips
Pampering/Nails
Organize “good deeds” residents can do for others
Scrapbooking class
Provide entertainment such as music/choir/dance/music recital
Tempe Homeless Outreach
Mercy Group: Homeless of Tempe, AZ
Involvement: 2nd and 5th Saturday of each month.
Tempe Homeless Outreach is an opportunity to share a good meal, a warm smile, and God’s love with the needy in our community.
Serving the 100 guests at Moeur Park is the heart of the ministry. We leave the church gym parking lot at 5:30 pm on the 2nd and 5th Saturdays of each month. Anyone is welcome to come and bring a dish to share, or drop off a covered dish to help.
Donations are also crucial in reaching out to the homeless. Click here to view accepted donations and guidelines. If you would like to support this outreach by donating, please clearly mark them “Tempe Homeless Outreach” and leave them on the church dock.
Get Involved:
For Small Groups, Families, and Individuals
Participate in serving at Moeur Park
Prepare, purchase a main course or side dish for 15-20 people.
Bring to Church at 5:30 pm in the southeast parking lot the 2nd and 5th (if applicable) Saturdays of each month or meet at Moeur Park
Donate (click here for accepted donations and guidelines):
United Blood Services
Mercy Target Group: Phoenix Metro Hospitals Invovlement: 1 hour blood donation
More Info: http://www.unitedbloodservices.org/
United Blood Services exists to make a difference in people’s lives by bringing together the best people, inspiring individuals to donate blood, producing a safe and ample blood supply, advancing cutting-edge research and embracing continuous quality improvement.
25,000 blood products were imported into Arizona last year to meet our own hospital needs. 700 blood donors are needed DAILY in our state. United Blood Services supplies all the East Vally hospitals, Mayo and the VA. UBS supplies 92% of the Phoenix metropolitan blood supply.
Cholesterol testing is now provided to each donor. Online scheduling is available.
Please do not wait to schedule an appointment. We strongly desire to exceed the expectations and generously give to those in need. We have the potential to increase UBS resources dedicated to the drive if we can surpass our 100 person quota. We need more HEROES!
The Yellow Bag Ministry is a partnership with the Chandler Christian Community Center (CCCC), in collection and distribution of food.
We are assisting the CCCC in providing the various resources they make available to families in need of basic items. Our donations assist the center in providing food and clothing to more than 82,000 people in Chandler! Our partnership also helps provide domestic violence victims with the means to start anew. Services such as food and clothing banks, English language classes, job services, narcotics anonymous, back-to-school necessities, and Operation Santa are also provided for those in need.
Get Involved:
For Small Groups, Families, and Individuals
Pick up Yellow Bag at CrossRoads.
Fill with requested items.
Return to CrossRoads with items (complete or partial fulfillment).
