Milestone Ministry

An intergenerational Christ-centered, gospel-oriented, safe, competent and fun ministry from birth to homegoing!

In Worship

  • Celebrating Secondary/Secular Themes to the liturgical calendar
  • Spring/Fall Retreats
  • Block Party/Community Rally

Guidelines for Youth and Family

Mission

We strive to equip all families to ignite passion for Jesus Christ within in their own family and out to the larger community and World!

Goal

To develop strong, healthy, joy-filled families through a church-home partnership that establishes the home as the primary place where faith is nurtured and restores the family as the community witness it is called to be.”  Deuteronomy 6:4-9

Approach

Involve the development of covenants between people and families. These covenants (Marital/Partnered, Parental & Family) will be commitments by which our people obligate themselves to others–it’s us saying what we intend to do and why we’re compelled to do it. The covenants will serve to establish guidelines for Christ-centered homes and gospel-oriented families; not a book of rules, but instead a picture of how God says our relationships and families will flourish once touched by the gospel. Further, the covenants will create accountability within the context of our own commitments–a critical key to healthy families.

Purpose

The covenants are our way of helping each other, equipping each other, and encouraging each other along a path to the establishment of or deepening of Christ-centered homes and gospel-oriented families. In combination with ministries tailored to individual family members as they relate to the larger family unit, the covenants will come alive and become a guiding force for discussions, teaching, modeling, forgiveness, mercy and grace.

Covenants

  • Marriage Covenant–being a Christ-centered and gospel-oriented husband/wife
  • Parental Covenant–being a Christ-centered and gospel-oriented parent
  • Family Covenant–being a Christ-centered and gospel-oriented family member

“God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other.”

1 Corinthians 12:24b-25

Those Without Families

For a myriad of reasons, many people don’t have families that they can covenant with. Because of God’s goodness, though, God provides an answer for these within God’s family–the body of Christ, Us the church! Cross will work to enfold all people who:

  • are going it alone;
  • people relationally isolated from their family,
  • people without family nearby,
  • people with no family,
  • people with family who aren’t interested in life with God,
  • people whose families have given up on them.

Healthy Relationships Educational Areas

  • Premarital Counseling
  • Singles and Engaged Couples
  • Married Couples/Partnered
  • Singles and Engaged Couples
  • Expecting and New Parents of a Child 3 Months or Younger

Milestones

  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. BAPTISM
  3. CRADLE ROLL
  4. 3 YR OLD – BIBLES
  5. KINDERGARTEN- PRAYER/GRACE
  6. 1ST GRADE – TEN COMMANDMENTS
  7. 2ND GRADE 1ST – COMMUNION
  8. 3rd GRADE – BIBLES
  9. 4TH GRADE – APOSTLES’ CREED
  10. 5TH GRADE – SACRAMENTS
  11. 6TH & 7TH GRADE – MISSION & SERVICE
  12. 8TH & 9TH – CONFIRMATION
  13. 10TH GRADE – SPIRITUAL GIFTS
  14. 11TH GRADE – SERVICE & VBS LEADERS
  15. 12TH GRADE – GRADUATION