Vineyard Crossroads Church is part of the "Vineyard Community of Churches". The Vineyard movement began in 1982 in Anaheim, California under the leadership of John Wimber and Ken Gulliksen. (John Wimber shortly thereafter became the founder and original National Director or overseer of the Vineyard movement.) What began as a small group of people hungry for more of God and meeting in someone’s house, has grown to over one thousand Vineyard churches worldwide.

The Vineyard historically has emphasized bringing renewal to the existing Church and planting new Churches. Vineyard Crossroads Church was planted out of Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Northeast El Paso (now known as Vineyard El Paso) in 1997.

Crossroads began primarily as a coffee house reaching out to the lost and marginalized youth of our city. The coffee house, originally funded by a state grant, was open several nights a week, and we had a church service on Sunday evenings. Our church was birthed through a passion for the really lost, a desperation for God, and mighty outpourings of God’s Spirit in our worship, prayer, outreaches, and weekly gatherings. We began Sunday morning services in the fall of 2000.

For more, click here to check out our Crossroads Connections manual.

This is what the Lord says: "Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for you souls. 
- Jeremiah 6:16

To win a generation to Jesus Christ

• spiritual community – A place of belonging, love, acceptance, forgiveness, and self-disclosure. An outpost of heaven, and a refuge for the lost, the forsaken, and the wounded. A place where diversity finds its truest expression in a shared passion for Jesus Christ. A people of hope and healing. A place of discovery, where people are invited to take the Jesus Journey – discovering their destiny, developing their talents, abilities, and spiritual gifts for meaningful service to God and others, and becoming fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.

• worship – encountering God through songs of love and thankfulness. Experiencing the empowering presence of the Holy Spirit. Becoming a people whose whole lives reflect gratitude, love, and devotion to Jesus Christ, through and through.

• the Word – being transformed into the people God intends us to be through a devotion to knowing the Bible and practicing what is says in everyday, real life.

• mission – partnering with God in his mission to restore what was lost through sin, namely friendship with God. Being a willingly sent people who go with Jesus to seek and save those who are lost, forgotten, forsaken, marginalized, and poor. Making more and better disciples – people who are passionate about God and his Kingdom, and fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.

Click here to view the Vineyard Statement of Faith