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Serving the Community — CrossRoads Mission
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Pat Kane,
Executive Director
319.365.0707
diakonospat@msn.com
1006 - 2nd Street SW
Rapids, Iowa 52404
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Food pantry
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Food
Pantry: Maintains an emergency food pantry as an approved member of
the local HACAP Food Reservoir, and CrossRoads coordinates its efforts
to insure equal distribution of non-perishable food with other local
food pantries.
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Counseling and referral
services
This
is Listening at CrossRoads Mission! So often those not in poverty
cannot hear the voice of those in poverty. CrossRoads Mission provides
a Christian listening post, and when needed makes referrals to pastors,
religious resources, and secular resources in the community where
appropriate. Listening to the voices of those who find their voice in
the midst of their human suffering gives the Board of Directors at
CrossRoads Mission future direction on the services provided to our
Guests.
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Rescue Services
CrossRoads Mission has the resources to help guests and their families to rescue victims of domestic violence and the homeless.
The mission has clothes closets, changing and shower rooms, emergency
food supplies and means to refer guests to services that will help
provide them with a stable and safe environment.
 
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Pastoral visits
to jail and hospitals
The staff at CrossRoads Mission is on-call to make visits to
the jail and health institutions to the guests and their families of
the mission. Often-times the churched, under-churched, and un-churched
of CrossRoads Mission do not have a friendly face to offer hope,
prayer, and help to ease their anxiety in matters of health and
behavior.
Human Services Referral and Advocacy
Without
a concept of "one stop programming" in our mission field, we have found
that many guests of CrossRoads Mission have difficulty navigating this
system.
We help our Guests with compassionate referrals, and when needed
advocacy, in an attempt to access a confusing system. At the same time
we educate our Guests so they can independently advocate for themselves
in the future.
Equipping Christian Volunteers and Developing Volunteer Leadership Skill Sets CrossRoads
Mission takes willing people of faith and teaches them how to serve
their neighbors in the tradition of Isaiah 58 and Matthew 25:31-46.
Learn to take your gifts from God, hope, and faith into action. All of
us have gifts from God, and have been made stewards of God's gifts;
now learn how to use them as God would have them used in local mission
work in our community. We also have programs for youth as well as
adults; please call Pat Kane for more information at 981-1273.
Life mentoring
In
CrossRoads Mission's Christian listening post capacity, we also provide
mentoring to our Guests in the area of secular decision-making,
breaking free of the culture of poverty, and living in grace through
faith. We do not make decisions for our Guests, but we can provide
information so that our Guests can make far better decisions for
themselves.
Mission Health is a component of Barnabas Uplift. A program sponsored
by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dubuque, the three Iowa Synods of
the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Muslim American Society of
Iowa, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Dubuque, Lutheran
Services in Iowa, ISED Ventures, State Public Policy Group, and the
Iowa Health System. CrossRoads Mission is a designated center to
administer this program. It allows those in poverty who do not have
health insurance to receive free or dramatically reduced outpatient
health care, and if they qualify free or reduced inpatient medical
care. CrossRoads Mission also makes referrals and assists Guests in
accessing the free health clinicsin Linn County, the ABBE Center for Community Mental Health, and other available resources.
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