SHARING THE GOSPEL
WHEREVER WE GO...
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MINISTRIES
At Crossword Church we have a variety of different areas of ministry to get involved in. Our ministries are not exclusively event or meeting based but instead, stem from a heart to serve God and his people (both in Crossword and more broadly) which is expressed most clearly when we come together.
Some of our more regular ministries include things such as; Good News as You Go (fellowship groups), prayer meetings, Teen Church, Children's church and Coffee Room Church.
Goodnews As You Go
(Fellowship Groups)
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Monday
Ladies @ Crossword Connection – 15h15
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Tuesday
Ladies @ Crossword Connection – 14h00
Evening @ Crossword Connection – 19h30
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Wednesday
Men 65+ @ The Haven Coffee Shop – 09h00
Evening @ Hendriksz Road – 19h30
Evening @ New Street – 19h30
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Thursday
Evening @ Crossword Connection – 20h00
Prayer Groups
Join a prayer group:​
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Tuesday
Mornings @ Crossword Connection – 09h00
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Saturday
Mornings @ Crossword Connection – 06h30
Teen Church
Teen Church youth ministry focuses on the growth and development of the teenagers in CrossWord. It is however not exclusive to just church members and encourages all those who are from grade 7 through to grade 12 to join.
Sunday 18:00 – Teen Church
Teen Church
Children's Church
CrossWord Church offers a Children’s Church program for all children who are in grades 1-7, this takes place during the sermon on a Sunday morning.
The groups are facilitated by members of CrossWord. There is a fixed lesson plan for each term that focuses on a theme or central piece of scripture. The aim is to share as much of the Bible and its truths and the things that we learn from Jesus with the children, in a way that is understandable, relevant and as true to the Word of God as can be.
Coffee Room Church
Join us on a Sunday evening a 18h00 at Crossword Connection at St. James Street for further discussion on the morning's sermon.
Coffee Room Church
Ernst Toerien
Missionary in Thailand
After serving for more than 23 years in Russia, God gave us a new mission field, namely Thailand. Twenty of the 23 years we spent doing children’s ministry until God moved us from that ministry into a pastoral ministry in a Reformed Presbyterian church in Tyumen, just east of the Ural Mountains in Siberia. When we got the chance to once more be involved with children’s ministry, this time in Thailand, we decided to exchange the cold of Siberia for the heat of Thailand. We did stay on the same continent though – just moved south and a bit east.
At present, I am learning Thai and volunteering at a local Christian mission which has a few orphanages all over Thailand. My main task is to start a Christian camp ministry under the auspices of this organisation.
God willing we will be able to not only have camps for the children in the organisation, but also for children living in the surrounding villages where these orphanages are situated. Even more importantly we would like to be able to get the teenagers themselves involved in reaching out with the gospel to these other children around them. My dreams and plans are to use the camps as a way of reaching out to others and discipling the teenagers already being cared for by the organisation.
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We had our first camps last year October. If God provides, we will have camps again in August and October.
I still go back twice a year to the church I pastored in Tyumen, preaching and teaching. The Reformed Bible School we started in the church building has been growing. Our initial hope was to find between 2 and 4 young Christians who wanted to learn theology and to become pastors themselves. This past Bible school session in March was attended by 23 young Christians interested in learning Reformed theology. Praise God for so many young people interested.
Soon I will go and do theological training in Myanmar and after the training have a camp for children living in a local orphanage. The Russian missionary there got to know me via the Bible school in Tyumen. He is very excited to have another Russian speaking missionary come to teach.
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Only God knows what we will be able to do here in Thailand and beyond. The future is in a way very unclear, but we trust God to lead us when we are pretty much in the dark.
Betsie is teaching two to three-year olds at a local Christian school. Nadja finished her first year in a Thai school and recently started with her second year. She reads, writes and speaks fluently in Thai. She still speaks Russian and is learning Chinese at school. She has been witnessing to the children in her class, seeing as she is the only Christian student in a school surrounded by a majority of Buddhists and a few Muslims.
Please continue to pray for our witness here in Thailand and beyond.
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In Christ
Ernst, Betsie and Nadja
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