History of our church  crossWinds began in 1997 as a vision driven church plant of Calvary Evangelical Free Church. The youth pastor (Doug Mathers, founding Sr. pastor) and other leaders of the church started to develop a vision to use contemporary music, drama, multimedia, and Bible teaching that was relevant to every day life. 

This vision became a call to begin a church that would be able to reach people far from God and help believers grow in devotion, service and love. On September 7, 1997 crossWinds held its first public service at Willow Creek Middle School in southeast Rochester . At that time crossWinds consisted of 60 committed adults and their 40 children.

The first services were attended by over 200 people and since then weekend attendance has grown to over 400.

From the beginning, however, the goal is not to become merely large church, but to be the church to each other and the community.

Authentic relationships have always been stressed, with small groups offering opportunities for people to develop spiritually while building life-long friendships.

It is the conviction that God does not merely exist but he is involved in this world and in our lives that motivates us to continue to reach out and reach up.

We look forward to adding to the chapters of this history as God leads us.