King's Cross Church

10/27/2024

Vote for policies, not personalities!

06/16/2023

PRONOUN: You may have noticed that our church page has a pronoun, assumed to have been assigned by FB. Actually, it is accurate! As a church, we are comprised of multiple individuals and we are animate (otherwise, "it" would be appropriate), so THEY/THEM is an accurate description and is NOT an endorsement of any current, secular ideology.

03/13/2021

The Seguin Children's Business Fair is open until 3pm today! Come support these hardworking kids and check out their businesses at 196 Tor Dr., in Seguin, TX.

03/05/2021

WINTER STORM UPDATE: Pastor Steve, his wife Cynthia, and King’s Cross Church are in the midst of a crisis. The parsonage and church building suffered severe damage during the freak winter storm that struck Texas, and now Steve and Cyn are displaced—unable to return home.

On February 13th, Pastor Steve and Cyn left their home—the church parsonage—to spend the storm with their daughters in Austin. The HVAC had failed, and without heat the old farmhouse would be unbearable. They turned off the water main, opened the taps, and joined their daughters in Austin.

Steve and Cyn waited out the storm at their daughters’ house in Austin. Like many in the region, blackouts left them without power—no heat!—for several days. Temperatures dropped to 7° (wind chill -7°!) outside, and ~35° inside the house where they were staying. And just as the power was restored… water was cutoff in the city of Austin due to massive shortages.
As soon as the roads melted, Pastor Steve surveyed the church property.

Here’s the status at the church:
* Every PVC water supply pipe under the pier-and-beam parsonage is burst. No sink, toilet, or shower supply pipes survived. Catastrophic plumbing damage.

* Burst exterior water supply pipe cut off water to the church.

* The parsonage HVAC is non-functional—no heating nor cooling to the parsonage. Note: the church also has no heating due to problems with the propane lines and the HVAC.
* Severe roof/ceiling and water damage in at least one section of the church. Exact cause is unknown—perhaps gathered ice and snow caused the roof to sink or leak. The ceiling of the fellowship hall and the Pastor’s office is sinking—a soft poke lifts the edge of the ceiling by more than an inch—and now mold is visibly growing on the walls. An intense mold/mildew smell is growing.

* Just for perspective—pitchers of water left inside on the kitchen counter were frozen solid days after the initial storm!

Pastor Steve and Cyn are still stuck. They can’t live at the parsonage yet, and their daughters’ rental lease is in jeopardy due to the weeks of added guests.

As you know, we held church services online for the past few weeks. We will return for in-person services on March 14th.

Current Progress:
* The Johnsons rebuilt the burst exterior water supply pipe at the church, restoring water to the church.
* The Johnsons added a cut-off valve to the water supply pipe that connects the church and the parsonage, so that the church can still function while the parsonage’s plumbing is still destroyed.
* The Johnsons rebuilt the plumbing for the kitchen sink. Water flow is moderate.

Active Problems:
* The parsonage bathrooms’ supply lines are still destroyed. No functioning toilets, showers, or bathroom sinks. We don’t know about the pipes in the walls.

* Plumbers are busy and expensive. Demand is high due to the state-wide plumbing crisis.

* The Johnsons were able to figure out the relatively straight-forward kitchen supply lines. But they’re neither equipped nor licensed to legally repair the bathrooms.

* The church does not have the ability to do the remaining plumbing and structural repairs—or to figure out what’s happening to the rapidly growing ceiling problem in the church building.

* Fears remain for underground water leaks, because the water flow to the kitchen is weaker since the break and partial repair.

Funds are needed to:
* Hire a licensed plumber to repair the parsonage plumbing

* Repair the HVAC at the parsonage to restore heating and cooling

* Repair the sinking roof/ceiling water damage at the church

King’s Cross Church is small but dedicated, offering ministries to the community—the church hosts ESL classes, seminars, and large community events. The building is offered freely to groups like homeschool families and Narcotics Anonymous meetings (the only NA meetings in a 30 mile radius). On March 13th the 2nd annual Seguin Children’s Business Fair will fill the field with kids displaying their businesses and products.

Now that just the kitchen sink is repaired (cold water only so far), Pastor Steve and Cyn plan to move back into the parsonage. They plan to carry buckets of water from the kitchen to the bathroom to flush toilets, and to drive the two-hour round-trip to their daughters’ house to shower.

IMPORTANT NOTE! The March 13th Children’s Business Fair will proceed as scheduled! The bathrooms in the church are functional, and the event is almost entirely held outside.

11/05/2020

We talk about how to reach our university students. Here is someone doing it and he needs your help!
Many of you know our son, David Johnson. Last year he graduated with an engineering degree (full honors). While at Texas State, he worked with Baptist Student Ministries leading discipleship groups and, as you would expect, he also managed their tech. David has given his life to the missions call, and ultimately is determined to return to South America to serve. He has taken this year before starting seminary to serve as a Campus Missionary Intern with BSM at Texas State University. The details of his important work there are described in the link below. He is discipling many students, leading ministry groups and activities--he is working full-time in ministry to college students.
Now, here is the need: most Campus Missionary Interns come from larger churches, which provide their support. Of course, with his servant's heart, David sacrificially worked with our tiny rebirth church here in Seguin, where finances are still slim.
David has raised most of this semester's support, but he is still short, and next semester is fast approaching. He needs to raise $3,000.00 quickly. I asked his permission to bring this need before our family and friends.
Please check out the link below and see the impact that this dedicated young man is having on campus, and then prayerfully consider a financial gift. You will find it to be a sound investment (all gifts are processed through our church, for accountability, and to provide tax deductibility to you).

You can reach college students with the gospel. Here’s how: I’m David Johnson. I train and disciple students with the Baptist Student Ministry at Texas State University to help them actively engage in ministry and evangelism in their classes and with the students they meet on campus. We need you...