THE VISION

It is the vision of Crossway go into the heart of Norfolk, a city that has 250,000 residents in a six mile radius, and minister to those we consider “young adults.” With a combined student population over 25,000, one of the largest military bases in the world, plus the over 30,000 professionals that work every day, downtown Norfolk is a great opportunity for urban, multiethnic outreach. The goal of this ministry is to connect the unchurched, dechurched and lost young adults to a genuine faith in Christ Jesus and then to demonstrate through discipleship how to lead full, rich, kingdom-impacting lives under the cross of Christ.

OUR VALUES

- Every person is worth the work
- We aren’t to judge but to love
- We are about building people, not buildings
- The church should be the most creative place on earth
- Pray like it depends on God and work like it depends on you
- forgiveness to all people - Excellence in all things
- Heaven is trans-cultural, so the church should be too

OUR BELIEFS

The Bible: We believe that the Holy Scriptures or the whole Bible is the inspired Word of God and, because it is the Word of God, that the Bible is true, without error, absolutely trustworthy and the sole authority in all matters of Christian faith and life. 2nd Timothy 3:15-16, 2nd Peter 1:21, 1st Corinthians 2:13
 
God: We believe there is only one true God and that this one true God is a God of three persons, the Father who has created us, the Son who has redeemed us and the Holy Spirit who sanctifies us.
Deuteronomy 6:4, Matthew 28:19
 
Humankind: We believe that because of original sin, all people being descendents of Adam, a sinner, are conceived and born in sin, bear their sinful father's image and would be lost to and condemned to death and hell forever by God unless redeemed by Jesus Christ, the second person of the Holy Trinity. We also believe that, because of this sinful condition, original sin produces a great variety of sinful thoughts, desires, words, and deeds called actual sins in the lives of all people, that would also condemn us, because they break the moral law of God, and the wages of sin is death both physical and spiritual.
Genesis 2: 16-17, Genesis 3, Romans 5:12, Psalm 51:5, Romans 7:18, Ephesians 2:3, Romans 6:23, Matthew 15:19, James 4:17
 
Salvation: We believe that God has done everything necessary for our salvation and the salvation of all people. That the Second person of the Holy Trinity was born of the Virgin Mary on the first Christmas and became man to be our Savior Jesus Christ. That, as our Savior, this God-man Jesus Christ fulfilled God's law perfectly for us and paid the penalty for the sins of the world as our substitute by suffering and dying on a cross for our salvation. We believe that this same Jesus was raised from the dead on the third day after He was dead and buried, so that we might have the assurance of eternal life, and that through what He did for us all, we are declared innocent before God. We believe that by God's grace through faith in this Jesus and His work of salvation for us, that He atoned for all our sins and the sins of the whole world, and that now, by God's grace through simple faith in Him as their Savior, anyone and everyone can have the assurance that their sins are forgiven, they are at peace with God, and also receive the free gift of eternal life with God, now and forever in heaven. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son so that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life."
John 3:16, Luke 1:35, John 1:35, John 20, 1st John 2:2, 2nd Timothy 1:10, Acts 16:31