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Back to School Outreach

admin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:36:54 +0000

We want to help the students at North Douglas Elementary School start off this school year in a big way! Through the month of July, we are collecting school supplies for students in need. We are also raising money for teachers to have the supplies they need this year.

To help, you can stop by Crossroads Church or email us giveloveaway@xroadschurch.net.

ONEDAY is one week away!

admin — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 01:30:11 +0000

We are less than one week away from the biggest community work event our city has ever seen. You must register by Sunday April 25th at Crossroads Church. Walk – up registration will not be available the day of the event.

There is still room to join a project. Here is a list of the current project opportunities.

NEW Projects – Just added:

***NEW *** #11 Woodie Fite Center Project #1: Pressure Wash building
***NEW*** #28 Inner Harbor – Arts & crafts, games and outdoor activities with children ages 5-10. Must be 15+ years old.
***NEW*** #23 Douglas County Parks and Recreation – Several parks are in need of clean-up & planting flowers, etc.

Painting Projects

#1 Douglas Senior Center Project #1 – Inside painting project: 2 rooms and a ladies room to be painted.
#1 Douglas Senior Center Project #2- Exterior painting project: 6 benches, 3 small porches with stairs, 1 wooden awning, and some railing needs to be painted.
#14 Share House Project #1: Interior Painting: There are 2 bedrooms that need painting.

Family Projects

#14 Share House Project #2: Babysitting: Babysitting for children while house is being painted.
#13 Shoe box project for Homeless – Children from X-Kids will fill pre-bought plastic containers with personal supplies and food to take to homeless.
#27 Hospice Care - One on one time with the residents with activities like Bingo, checkers, and planting flowers & veggies. They have a salon with all the supplies needed and would like for some girls to do resident’s nails.
#11 Woodie Fite Center Project #2: Sheppard’s Garden: Help elderly with gardening.
#19 Douglasville Nursing Home – Visit one on one and in groups with nursing home residents.
#18 Douglas County Foster Care Association – Provide Birthday Cake and Party for Foster Children.
#21 Douglas County Animal Shelter – Volunteers are needed to walk dogs, clean cages and bathe dogs (if weather permits). Must love animals and children must be accompanied by an adult.

People in Need Projects

#3 Fowler Homes – Vial Project – Interview the residents and obtain a list of medications, primary care physician, and who to contact in an emergency. For this project must be able to print clearly and be able to walk a good distance. All minors have to be accompanied by an adult.
#12 Helping the Homeless – Wear work clothes and comfortable shoes/boots and be prepared to clean up area (woods) where homeless live & take food and shoe boxes filled by X-Kids. Must be able to rake, use a shovel and haul trash.
#15 The Pantry – The Pantry will be finishing up a food drive and will need food sorted and stacked. Wear comfortable clothing. Must be able to pickup boxes and stack food.
#16 Hope Project #1: Pick-up trash and clean-up on Grady Street, & paint sign on Grady Street
#16 Hope Project #2: Tear out and remove carpet from Hope Project building
#17 Faith In Action – Two men crews to pick-up donated furniture and appliances from donors and distribute them to those who need them.

Specialty Projects – Construction

Various Home Repair Projects at homes for elderly – There are 7 homes that are in need of home repair. Roofing, plumbing, electrical work, repairing decks, etc.

Outdoor work Projects

Various Landscaping Projects at homes for elderly – There are 8 homes that need general yard work – leaves to be cleaned up, bushes trimmed, fallen branches and sticks picked up, and grass cut, etc.

ONE DAY Event Staff

#22 Volunteer Support/Runners – Stay at the church and assist wherever needed: Gofer, deliver lunch to work sites, volunteer table check-in, hand out T-Shirts, take water and supplies to work sites as needed, fill in at worksites as needed. Including:
- Registration & Support Staff
- Lunch Delivery
- Parking Lot Team
- Setup/Tear down Team
- Shuttle Bus Drivers

ONEday – a one day service project event

admin — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:58:43 +0000

It only takes ONE DAY to love our community like never before.

Our city, Douglasville, is full of neglect, abuse, hurt, poverty, and despair. ONEDAY will allow volunteers from all over this city to help those in need in our community. On Saturday, May 1st, hundreds of volunteers will take on projects all over our community. Projects will range from skill specific projects to projects that can involved your entire family.

We have partnered with multiple organizations that are committed to helping those in need through West Georgia. Our goal is to use these great organizations to connect us to people who need help as we provide the volunteers.

Here is a list of our partnerships:

Douglas County Senior Center

The Share House

The Woodie Fite Center

Mission on a Move

United Way

The Hope Project

Douglas County Parks and Recreation

Douglas County Foster Care

Fowler Homes

Douglas County Animal Shelter

Helping the Homeless

The Pantry

Douglas County Nursing Home

Senior Apt. Living

Faith in Action

Disaster Relief

Crossroads Church

Register in person @ Crossroads Church.

Help for Haiti

admin — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:12:07 +0000

If you would like to help those devistated by the earthquake in Haiti, we are partnering with two incredible organizations that are mobilizing aid and support.

Help today by choosing one of these organizations:

visit Compassion International or visit Sumaritan’s Purse

Help Give Love Away today!

Clike here to view our Help Haiti video

Saturday Flood Relief

admin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:25:00 +0000

Crossroads Flood Relief Volunteers,

First, let me thank you again for making the decision to bring HOPE and HELP to thousands of hurting people. People are still very much in desperate need of your love, support, and hard work. In the city of Austell alone, over 50% of the people are now homeless. How staggering is that?

We are continuing to partner with HopeAtl.com and their organized volunteer efforts. If volunteers come together in big numbers, we could really help to begin healing broken communities. Let me give you a few facts and encourage you to volunteer tomorrow. Hope needs you…and your crew!

HopeAtl will be setting up check-in tents on Saturday on the front lawn of Ewing Road Baptist Church (4699 Ewing Rd Austell, GA 30106) @ 9:30am. This is the central information hub and direction will be given to addresses where work is needed. Even if you are an old pro, please come here and check in before getting to work. It will take efficiency to another level.

If you happen to have any tools (hammers, crowbars, saws, wheelbarrows, …anything…load them up and bring them with you.) If you don’t have any tools, just plan on working twice as hard to make up for it.

Although it may be warm, we need you to wear a long sleeve shirt and long pants with shoes you don’t mind ruining. We have a variety of work that is needed that can cater to any challenges or limitations you may have. It would also be wise for you to bring your own lunch, snacks, and some water, etc.

We need more volunteers! Tell everyone you know about hopeATL & encourage them to make a difference!

If if you wish to make a donation, please consider doing so soon @hopeATL.com – 100% of your donation goes directly to help flood victims get back on their feet. Thanks again for Giving Love Away!

Bringing Hope to Atlanta’s Flood Victims

admin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:06:00 +0000

Flood Relief Work Team – Thursday

admin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:52:00 +0000

We are partnering with www.hopeatl.com and Courageous Church who have created an amazing network of churches and volunteers on the ground helping people in need. Here is how you can help:

Our staff team will be traveling directly to Austell tomorrow to work with Courageous Church and the HopeATL team. We will meet at Crossroads at 8:15am and travel to Ewing Road Baptist Church (4699 Ewing Road in Austell) for a 9:00am meeting. We will dispurse into work teams from the school.

If you can join our team tomorrow, please let me know so I can be expecting you. If you are coming tomorrow, need you to wear a long sleeve shirt and pants with shoes you don’t mind ruining (also bring some work gloves!).

Here is a list of tools you can bring with you:
ALL tools required to demolish and build a home (hammers, carpet knives, exacto knives, screw drivers, saws, drills, bits, crowbars, wrenches, measuring tape, levels, sledgehammers, etc.)
Pressure Washers to clean mold, sewage, mud, muck, etc. off of homes

If you cannot make it during the week, we are hoping to have hundreds -maybe thousands- of people at Clarksdale Elementary this Saturday at 9am. There is so much work to do. Thanks for giving love away.

New Playground for NDES

admin — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:51:00 +0000

Imagine if recess was not a highlight of a child’s day at school. Imagine if the playground at your school regularly had over 45 children but was only designed for about 20 children. Imagine if teachers had no place to sit and relax for a moment while children played. Imagine if disagreements and arguments regularly broke out because children just did not have enough engagement on the playground. Hard to imagine but that WAS the situation for North Douglas Elementary School.

God, however, imagined something very different! Thanks to some amazing generosity from Playland (a playground company in Carrollton), North Douglas Elementary School has more than doubled the size and play capacity of its playground. Not only did they add a huge new play area, they surprised the school with six new swings! It was an amazing completion to the playground landscaping project began by Crossroads and Team Jesus at the beginning of the school year. Check out the video below to see the first children to enter the new playground.

We are still needing to raise about $1500 to cover additional costs for the North Douglas project. If you would like to give, please contact Kurt Dean at 678-370-0555 or kdean@xroadschurch.net.

Super Saturday at the Pantry

admin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:30:00 +0000

September 26

Our next Give Love Away outreach will involve feeding families in our community on September 26. The Pantry (our community food partner) has been allocated enough food from Atlanta Community Food Bank to feed 500 families on this particular weekend. For this event, we are going to need over 150 Crossroads volunteers! Crossroads volunteers will be giving away food, directing traffic, and entertaining children as their families wait to receive their food. Please visit guest services on September 13 or September 20 to volunteer.

A message from Fran Davis, principal at North Dougals Elementary School

admin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:43:00 +0000

Wow! I just did a walk-through around the school and saw the
playground. It looks wonderful! I’m not sure how they did it all in
such a short time but they did an amazing job! Please pass along our
sincere thanks and overwhelming excitement. The supplies arrived and
let me say that God’s timing is always perfect. The teachers are so
appreciative. We hope that you all know what an incredible difference
you’ve made in the lives of our staff, our students and their families.

Sincerely,
Fran Davis