Broken people...
Following Jesus
We may rightly say that this is at the heart of what being a Christian is about.
It’s also at the heart of our vision statement and core values.
Our Vision Statement
a community of broken people
following Jesus
in the story of how he is renewing
our neighborhood and our lives.
A Community.
Broken People.
Following Jesus.
We also understand that following Jesus means we are free to pursue others good and well-being. Our lives take on the contours of his life as we grow in our relationship with him, which means we will be growing in a deeper desire and capacity to dwell with others, for the sake of pursuing their good and flourishing.
The Story of Renewal.
Because of the fall, sin brought all of God’s good creation under what Ecclesiastes puts so well, “…there is nothing new under the sun.” We live in a world crying out in “sackcloth and ashes,”–biblical imagery of decay and corruption. The gospel is such good news because it tells us, upon the finished work of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection–Jesus has begun to make “all things new,” in a world where sin has made all things old.
Therefore our role in the story is to live a missional life–It means we are seeking to see the kingdom of God changing and transforming our Flushing neighborhood, block by block, and our lives, day by day, as we dwell together.*
CORE VALUES
REDISCOVERING THE GOSPEL | PROCLAMATION
REDEFINING THE GOOD LIFE | TRANSFORMATION
REFLECTING OUR NEIGHBORS | INCARNATION
REIMAGINING FLUSHING | RESTORATION
REPLICATING CHURCH | MULTIPLICATION
OUR STORY
The congregation at King’s Cross Church had her first service on October 14, 2012. We were originally planted as a congregation of Living Faith Community Church (LFCC) and part of a church planting movement to create churches that reflect the beauty and diversity of our home, New York City. After over a decade of ministry in New York, LFCC grew into a ministry that primarily served Eastern Queens. In 2011, Ruling Elder Peter Ong and his wife Jamie, with the leadership at LFCC, started to pray for a new congregation to serve young adults and the Flushing community. Soon, God started to answer that prayer, preparing a core team that grew out of young people meeting in community groups throughout Queens.
In 2015 Robert Calabretta came on as pastoral staff. He and his wife Sara moved back into the Flushing neighborhood to be missionally engaged in the people and culture of Flushing. In 2018, Robert was later ordained and called as King’s Cross Church’s Senior Pastor and Teaching Elder as the church particularized, becoming its own church in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), having its own governing body of elders to help lead the church.
Today, Flushing is expanding and rapidly developing. Main Street has the highest foot traffic in all of New York City, second to Times Square. There is still a large inpouring of immigrants, outsiders, and “re-locaters,” seeking somewhere to live, work, and find community. As we live and worship and grow here, King’s Cross Church’s identity and vision has also grown over the years to see that there has never been a more pivotal time for the Church to be present in the lives of people and work of the Kingdom for the sake of our Triune God’s glory and praise.
King’s Cross Church is a member of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA).
We are a confessional church, which means we hold precious the ancient truths held by the Church since the days of the apostles, expressed in the Apostle’s Creed and Nicene Creed.
Doctrinally, we are of the Reformed tradition, as articulated in the Westminster Confession and Catechisms, founded in historic Orthodox Christianity of the Protestant Reformation.