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 A little bit about us... The Crossroads began as Radcliff U.P.C. in November of 1985 by Rev. C. Wayne Shrum and his wife. It started and still remains today affiliated with the United Pentecostal Church International. The Rev. Shrum was pastor until around January of 1990 when Rev. J.B. Mills and his family came to pastor. The church building we currently worship in and the solidarity of the membership was built by Rev. Mills and his ministry. In September of 1998 the Mills felt it was time to expand their ministry elsewhere, and are currently evangelizing heavily. In October of 1998 Rev. Stanford Medlock and his family came to pastor and carry on the work that had begun. It was during the tenure of Pastor Medlock that the church name was changed to Bethesda Apostolic, and several of our current membership was won to the Lord. In June of 2001 Pastor Medlock and his family had their final service as pastor of the church and moved to Tennessee. The Medlock Family currently resides in Louisiana where they are actively involved in ministry. On the last day of July in 2001, Pastor and Mrs. A.J. Dummitt were elected Pastor and have been actively involved in the church and community ever since. From August 2001 to August 2002 the membership more than tripled and we are experiencing continued revival in the North Hardin Community. Our name was officially changed to The Crossroads on September 14, 2002. We hope that you will come and see the great work that God has done.
Pentecostals get their name from the Bible events in Acts chapter two. One hundred and twenty of the Lord’s disciples had gathered after His resurrection in an upper room to pray and wait for the ‘promise of the Father.’ (You can read this story in Acts chapters one and two). When the promise came it was on the Jewish holiday called Pentecost. All one hundred and twenty were ‘filled with the Holy Ghost’ and began to ‘speak with other tongues’ in that upper room. When the revelation of speaking in tongues came to the modern church around 1900, those who accepted the use of speaking in tongues began to call themselves Pentecostals. All Pentecostals, it seems, can trace their roots to events in Topeka, Kansas and the Azusa Street mission in Los Angeles, California. The outpouring of the Holy Ghost spread across America like wildfire at the turn of the 20thcentury as believers responded to the supernatural events surrounding the Day of Pentecost in the Book of Acts. “Tongue-talkers” were once a small minority but now make-up the greatest percentage of all Christian believers. |
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