Digital Innovations

Church is more than a weekend service and extends way beyond a building. It’s people knowing your name. It’s having people to call when life gets hard. It’s finding friends, growing in your faith, and having a place where you belong. For years, groups and communities have helped make that happen at Crossroads. Increasingly, community isn't just something you find at a particular time and place, but people you stay connected to all the time. So we’re building new ways to help people connect digitally, too. We’ve spent the last few months getting clear on what this needs to be, and now we’re building it. Our app team is already hard at work creating an experience that will help you find your people, stay connected, and be known and cared for—wherever you live. This isn’t about more screen time or another feature in an app. It’s about using technology to help real relationships happen. There’s more to come, and we can’t wait to share it with you.

Kids’ Club is a place where our youngest members go to experience God in a fun, engaging, and safe way. We thought the site should reflect that, too. The refreshed Kids Club pages help new families get a sense of what Kids’ Club is all about. They can explore by age group, read about Crossroads’ policies for safe care, and easily access videos, songs, and learning content made just for kids. Testimonials, tips, and timelines help parents plan their visit to Kids’ Club – all within a fun, kid-focused user experience.

But the Kids’ Club page isn’t the only thing that received a fresh design. The updated volunteer page provides a brand new, engaging experience for potential volunteers. It highlights available roles, outlines responsibilities and requirements, and even serves updates from existing volunteers.

Thank you to everyone who has been with us on this 10X journey: because your continued dedication to the moonshot helped make these updates possible. Now, Crossroads visitors can head to the Kids’ Club pages and immediately get a sense of who we are. As a church, as a team, and as a safe, fun place for kids to learn about God.

You can now join Crossroads live every Sunday. Anyone can be a part of the experience in real time, worshiping and learning with others as it happens.

Much of our 10X growth will come through digital outreach. For many seekers, our online spaces are the front door—the first place they explore faith, meet our community, or take a next step on their spiritual journey. Everything we build must serve both new guests discovering Crossroads for the first time and enhance the experience for those already walking with us. The future of Crossroads is about deepening connection, not just widening reach.

We launched a series of workshops that brought together voices from across the church—the Anywhere team, Groups, Kids' Club, and more—to explore how people experience Crossroads on campus, online, and through our digital tools. Together, we cast a vision for how technology can make community more accessible, more welcoming, and more effective for everyone. Then came the tough but exciting work of focusing that vision into a clear roadmap—outlining the features and enhancements that will form a digital foundation to help people connect with God and with each other, wherever they are.

New and existing Spanish-speaking members now have access to translated messages across all digital platforms. Additionally there is now a dedicated destination on the Crossroads website that speaks to and supports our Spanish-speaking members so that they can more easily engage and connect with all that our church has to offer.