Crossway Baptist Church

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Crossway Baptist Church is Australia’s largest Baptist church, located in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs. Regular attendance at Sunday services is over 3,500 people.

History

Crossway is regarded as a contemporary evangelical Church, with Bible based preaching. Previously known as 'Blackburn Baptist' the Church relocated from 19 Holland Road, Blackburn (which is now the headquarters of Evagelical Chinese Church Melbourne) to its current position at 2 Vision drive, Burwood East in September 1995.

Crossway Today

Shortly after this relocation, the church changed its name to 'Crossway Baptist Church' in order to reflect the congregation's regional nature as well as their vision and values.

Crossway has numerous ministries for all ages including a children's ministry called 'KidSpace' (formerly 'Crossway Kids'), a youth ministry called 'Surge' (formerly 'Deeper'), a young adults ministry called 'Vive' and ministries for the elderly with a '50+' service. It also has a wide range of community services with its community care ministry, 'Heartbeat Project' and Mothers of Preschoolers Program (MOPS).

The annual Crossway Conference attracts over 1000 delegates, mainly pastors and other Christian leaders. Crossway have planted daughter churches in Craigieburn, Cranbourne, Moreland, and Stonnington as well as a number of other smaller experimental Church plants. Crossway also has language-based congregations with Mandarin-, Cantonese-, Indonesian- and Korean-speaking services.

Stuart Robinson, a former missionary, is the founding pastor. He has written and number of books including Mosques and Miracles, a book about Islam written from a Christian perspective. Pastor Dale Stephenson formerly from New Peninsula Baptist Church replaced Stuart Robinson as Senior Pastor in February 2008.

The church has its own book store in which Christian reading material and DVD/CDs can be purchased.

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