Photos
Outdoor Worship Service - August 2023
National Night Out - August 2023
Sisseton Mission Trip - June 2023
Community Clothes Closet Grand Opening - November 2022
2022 Fall Potluck Lunch
2022 National Night Out Event
2021 Christmas Preparation
4th Sunday of Advent & Christmas Party
Christmas Gift Cards donated to Lakeview Elementary, December 2021
Warm Coats donated to Lakeview Elementary, October 2021
National Night Out, October 2021
Community Garden Update, July 2021
Sandra's experiences in Ghana, June 2021
Sandra has long wanted to address an issue that orphans in Africa never experience; a basic health exam. After two years of planning, it finally begins in her home country of Ghana, West Africa. As a one time orphan herself, Sandra has great empathy for children who never get a basic health exam. 1st day ... 174 young people arrive for what is billed as a 'Fun Day.' Fun for them but exhausting for Sandra, volunteers, and the medical staff.
Outdoor Workday & Community Garden planting, May 2021
Socks and Toiletries Drive & Easter Gift Cards, March 2021
Lent 2021
Advent 2020
Church of the Cross Community Garden, July 2020
Ladies Tea, March 2020
Black History Month 2020
Advent 2019
Delivering Christmas baskets to Lakeview Elementary
Thanks to the generosity of our congregation and the good work of our deacons, thirty-one Christmas Food Baskets were delivered on Monday, December 16, to Lakeview School in Hoffman Estates. Through our on-going partnership with Mariano's Store #8506 at Golf & Barrington Roads, and Mike, the Manager, Lindsey, Assistant Manager, and Mindy, we were able to procure the baskets and provide dinner for Lakeview families. The baskets were accepted by Beth Urbach, the Lakeview School principal, Kelly Pietryla, the assistant principal and Priscilla, the School social worker. They expressed their gratitude for the baskets on behalf of the families that would receive them. Special thanks to Ann Moorman for doing the behind-the-scenes coordination, as well as to Karen Franz, Bob Lovell and Judie Truelsen for helping to transport and deliver the baskets.
Feed My Starving Children, November 2019
Feed My Starving Children, September 2019
Spanish Heritage Celebration, September 2019
Sushma's Baby Shower, July 2019
Sisseton Mission Trip, June 2019
Easter Sunday, April 2019
Food baskets delivered at Lakeview Elementary, April 2019
Palm Sunday, April 2019
Ladies Tea, April 2019
Ash Wednesday Agape dinner and Worship service, March 2019
Feed my Starving Children event, 21 January 2019
Christmas baskets delivered, December 2018
Fall round-up & Hispanic Heritage, 6 September 2018
Warm coats donations to Lakeview Elementary, 31 August 2018
Church of the Cross Community garden, August 2018
Feed my Starving Children event, August 2018
National Night Out event, August 2018
The start of the community garden, June 2018
Sisseton Mission trip, June 2018
Feed my Starving Children event, May 2018
Ladies Tea, May 2018
Easter baskets delivered to Lakeview Elementary school, February 2018
39 Easter baskets were filled and delivered to Lakeview Elementary families. Thank you for all your donations and a special thanks to Mariano's for preparing the baskets.
Feed my Starving Children event, February 2018
A special thanks from Youth Sunday School members. The turn-out for the Feed My Starving Children volunteer event was amazing! We assembled sufficient food packets to feed 93 children for an entire year! Good work for less than 90 minutes on our feet. The meals will be shipped to the island of Madagascar, where a heartbreaking 70 percent of the country’s 19 million people lives in extreme poverty. Please click HERE to read more about how Feed My Starving's packaged meals are distributed to needy children in Madagascar.
Christmas baskets delivered to Blackwell Elementary school, November 2017
Thanks to generous giving from COTC members & visitors, 33 food baskets were delivered to Elizabeth Blackwell Elementary.
Stewardship Sunday, November 2017
Feed my Starving Children event, November 2017
Thank you to our volunteers! Saturday's Feed My Starving Children event was a huge success. We helped to pack a total of 53 352 meals! The meals, we packed, will be shipped to the Ukraine. Please watch the video to see how the food will benefit people in Ukraine - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjO3yu_9dsY
Warm Coats delivered, November 2017
Thanks to generous giving from COTC members & visitors, 60 coats were delivered to Neil Armstrong Elementary & Elizabeth Blackwell Elementary.
Boy Scout Eagle project, October 2017
New planters gratefully received as an Eagle Scout project. Thank you, Gavin!
World Communion Day, October 2017
First day of Sunday School, September 2017
Community picnic, August 2017
Sisseton Mission trip, June 2017
DAY 1 - SUNDAY, JUNE 25
Going to Church.
DAY 2 - MONDAY, JUNE 26
Celebrating that "God made me"
DAY 3 - TUESDAY, JUNE 27
Today we celebrate that GOD IS FOR US!
DAY 4 - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28
Today's lesson is "God is always with you" We can always be with God through prayer....so today we will decorate a little wall hanging reminding us to PRAY
DAY 5 - THURSDAY, JUNE 29
God will always love me!
Pastor Julie's Installation Service, May 21. 2017
Easter Food Baskets delivered to Armstrong and Blackwell schools
Public Action to Deliver Shelter (P.A.D.S.)
Friday, April 21st, several people from COTC participated in providing a Mexican themed supper to the P.A.D.S. site at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, 920 W. Higgins Rd, Schaumburg. Many more people will have provided enough food to feed those staying at the shelter for the night.
If you are helping this ministry in any way, Thank You, for participating in the vital ministry of feeding the hungry as our Lord call us to.
If you have not helped for this particular ministry of COTC, PRAY today, right this moment for the people who will be receiving this meal. Our Lord calls upon all of us to support these members of Christ’s family and prayer is a vital aspect of our support for each of them.
'Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink? … And the king will answer them, 'Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.' Matthew 25:37, 40
If you are helping this ministry in any way, Thank You, for participating in the vital ministry of feeding the hungry as our Lord call us to.
If you have not helped for this particular ministry of COTC, PRAY today, right this moment for the people who will be receiving this meal. Our Lord calls upon all of us to support these members of Christ’s family and prayer is a vital aspect of our support for each of them.
'Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink? … And the king will answer them, 'Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.' Matthew 25:37, 40
Sisseton Mission trip 2016
