Welcome to Crosswalk

These are beautiful handmade tapestries hanging on the Fellowship Hall walls, site of our Crosswalk services Click on image to enlarge
Appropriately, to begin, there was the cross. If you ask Jay Irwin, there was no big story on the cross; you be the judge: The Peoples donated wood from trees on their property for the main sanctuary cross many years ago. One Sunday Spencer Sullivan did a children’s sermon using a scrap from the main cross so Jay knew there was a little left. He had wood from his own property to do the new cross. During the design phase Mini suggested he try to incorporate some of the wood from the original cross. He liked the idea of symbolically linking the new service with the traditional services through the cross. He was able to locate enough scraps to do the smaller walnut cross overlaid on top of the main Oak cross.  When first asked to take on the task of creating the banners, Carol Nelson was overwhelmed. She knew she couldn’t do it alone. She turned the project over to God. At the time, she was studying the Bible about the building of the temple – how different people with different skills made it possible. She asked people with artistic talents to do one banner but left it up to them what they did. Each banner would be different -- only the same colors would be used with a similar border, which would look like stained glass, and the material used would be muslin. MOPS and their children did the Crosswalk Banner. Carol wanted many people to participate and the various “feet” reflect this. Beside it is Shalom Ya’ll, done by Carole Rankin. At the time, she was having difficulty with the nerve in her right hand thumb and surgery for it was pending. Since holding a brush was painful, she knew her banner needed to be kept simple. She chose to do the Fig Plant (Genesis 3:7). Someone gave her a plaque many years ago that read, “Shalom Ya’ll” so she wanted to use it since Crosswalk would be casual. Carol thinks it was no accident these two banners ended up side-to-side and hung first in the room when you enter. Both are welcoming folks just as they enter.

Here, Jay Irwin is shown working on a cross that is now mounted in the Fellowship Hall,
the location of CROSSWALK services