Canton For All People is responding 
to help the families affected 
by the terrible explosion on Bonnot Place NE

If you would like to help with those efforts, 
you can donate directly to that cause

Visit our payment site 
and put "NE Families" in the note field

THIS SUNDAY

Sunday, August 2, 2026

Summer is nearly over as we have reached this first Sunday in August. Fall Kickoff Sunday will soon be upon us! Until then, since this is the first Sunday of the month, we will take Communion together. Pastor Mary Jo will give a special message on this Communion Sunday, and Julie Smith and the Sunday School team will guide our young ones through their portion of our Sabbath day.

Our readings this Sunday are:

Psalm 17: 1 - 7, 15
Romans 9: 1 - 5

See Current and Past Sunday Bulletins

Everyone is always welcome to worship here at Crossroads, and when we take Communion, everyone is always welcome at the Lord's table. So please tell your friends, coworkers or neighbors who may be looking for a church home about us! We worship every week in our sanctuary at 10:00 am.

Also On Sundays

Community Breakfast

6:30 am - Wesley Hall

We serve a hearty breakfast every Sunday to the greater downtown community 

Anyone who wants to volunteer to help cook, serve and clean is always welcome!

Adult Bible Study

9:00 am - Wesley Hall

Our adult Bible study meets every Sunday in Wesley Hall just prior to the worship service

Everyone is welcome to join our lively Biblical discussions!

The Crossroads Choir

8:30 am - Choir Room

Off for the summer! See you in September!

Our Weekly Activities

Men's Prayer Breakfast

Most Wednesdays

Fall Newsletter Deadline

If you are a group leader, 
or if you have something you'd like to announce to our congregation 
in the Fall Crossroads Chronicle, 
please submit your items to the Director of Publications

The deadline for submission for our next print newsletter, 

covering September, October and November, 

is Sunday, August 16, 2026

Submit Your Newsletter Items

How Can I Help? 
What Can I Do?

If you've been thinking about

wanting to do more for your church,

here are some ways you could do just that!

Join our A/V team
If you are already in church on Sunday morning, 
why not volunteer one Sunday a month 
to help run our audio and visual equipment? 
It's not difficult, no experience or technical knowledge is necessary,
and you will be trained on the job!

Please contact Pastor Mary Jo if you are interested

Become a Sunday caretaker
We need people every Sunday to stay after church 
and make sure all of the lights are turned off

and the building is secure

You will also have to stay through 
the Sunday afternoon meal in Wesley Hall, usually until about 2 pm

Please contact Ron Leonard 
if you can do this even one Sunday a month,

or even one Sunday every two months!

Crossroads in the Community

You never know where you might find some of your fellow Crossroads churchgoers out and about in the community! 

Have you seen these two people at church on a Sunday morning? This is David Singhaus and Celeste Fensom, and when they're not at Crossroads, most of the time you will find them leading one of the many bands at McKinley High School.

They have been worshipping with us for about nine months, and if you haven't introduced yourself and welcomed them to our congregation yet, there's no better time to do that than the next time you see them!

This is From the Archives, where we present something from our extensive collection of archival photos, records and all manner of materials dating back to when the church was First Methodist Episcopal, to First Methodist, to Church of the Savior, to St. Paul's to Crossroads.

We usually showcase something like a photograph, bulletin or newsletter in this section, but this week we have a couple of unusual physical items to share with you. (Photos and documents are physical items too, of course.)

First is a cross-stitch hand-made by Mrs English in 1993. Mrs William English (we have both Billy and Billie as spellings) was featured a couple of weeks ago in this section in a collage about women who had served the church. Her picture is again included here. Also the back of the cross-stitch is shown.

The second item is a commemerative plate for the church from 1952. Both the front and back are shown below. Churches all over Ohio and elsewhere bought these plates in huge quantities in the 1950s and 60s. A web search for Lucile S Piper in Cincinnati (shown on the back) reveals an enormous output of these plates for multiple churches.

The drawing of the church on the plate is very similar to some other drawings of the church from that era. But this drawing seems to be unique in that it includes some trees and some of the buildings around the church. Also, it's unclear if this was intentional, but it also seems to be depicting snow on the surrounding sidewalk and the west-facing roof. Or perhaps that is just a limitation of the available colors in printing.

You will see in the picture that the plate itself has gathered some dirt, dust and dings in the decades it has been in our archives. It's possible that there are many more of these floating around out in the world in various attics or basements that might be in better condition. Or it might be that this is the last remaining one! 

Either way, this plate and the hand-made cross-stitch are unique physical, tangible connections to this church. In an age when everything is digital, it does raise the question: what tangible connections to the church can we still make today?

(Click to open the images in new windows.)

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more interesting features!

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Thank you to those of you who already tithe or donate on a regular basis!

Contact us

The Reverend Mary Jo Yeakel 
Pastor


Lilly Brunoni
Administrator & Custodial Engineer


Beth Polen 
Director of Music Ministries 


Christopher Dazey

Organist, Director of Publications & Video Producer


Kristina Belliveau 
Finance Coordinator

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