Crossroads Christian Assembly

Since returning to Canada from Africa where he grew up the son of missionaries Arthur and Gladys Lagore, Steve Lagore sensed that God would use him to plant a church in the Edmonton area. After sixteen years of serving in lay ministry Steve responded to God’s call to full time ministry. After ministering for thirteen years as a music minister Steve began to see the Mission is as much about reaching those across the road as it is about reaching those across the sea!
birth of the vision God gave him. Birth is a good term in that the beginnings of this vision were not without some extremely painful times. An amazing core group of believers met at “the Club” at Southgate on Friday the 4 February 2005 at 8 pm and unanimously voted to plant a new church assembly.

"Mission is as much about reaching those across the road as it is about reaching those across the sea!"

SAM Ministries determined that this was the opportunity God had provided to reinforce the fact that missions is as much about reaching those across the road as it is about reaching those across the sea! And since church planting in Canada and abroad was an object of SAM Ministries’ charitable registration, Steven Lagore was appointed SAM Ministries “missionary” to lead this first initiative.

Crossroads Christian Assembly was incorporated on 14 April 2005 and was registered with Canada Revenue Agency as a charitable entity on June 1, 2005, opening the way for this local church to launch out on its own with formalized ties to a fellowship of evangelical churches known as the Fellowship of
Crossroads has seen the average Sunday attendance grow from 45 to 110 people in the first year! Christian Assemblies. Crossroads celebrated it's first anniversary in the spring of 2006 and has seen the average Sunday AM service attendance grow from 35 adults and 10 children to approximately 90 adults and 20 children. We look forward with anticipation to God’s provision and power as we serve him together
as a local church.

"Crossroads has seen the average Sunday attendance grow from 45 to 100 people in the first year!"

Crossroads Christian Assembly has been called to meet the needs of people who are at the crossroads of life, physically and spiritually. CCA is a multi-cultural congregation which has been called to minister to people from a diversity of backgrounds that have met at the crossroads of Canada and are looking for spiritual fulfillment and direction in life: people who are tired of religion and looking for a real relationship with God.

Contact Details:
Pastor Steve Lagore
Phone: 780.986.7011
Email: crossrds@shaw.ca .

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