Crossway Baptist Church


Crossway Baptist Church is one of Australia’s largest Baptist churches and is located in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs. Overall attendance for 2016 was 6,675. Crossway provides a wide range of religious activities and community support services throughout the week.

History

The church was founded by the Reverend J.H Newnham in 1954 as Blackburn Baptist Church.
It originally met in a small hall as a Sunday school class on the corner of Holland and Canterbury Roads in Blackburn South. The church then relocated to 19 Holland Road, Blackburn South, and later moved in September 1995 to the current location, 2 Vision Drive, Burwood East after which it changed its name to Crossway Baptist Church. The church current Burwood East site is.
Crossway has 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 services.
Since 2006, Crossway has also co-organised "Unite" - a creative arts conference featuring Australian musicians such as Roma Waterman and Michael Paynter. The conference is organised together with Gateway Church, Careforce Church and Christian City Church Whitehorse.

Services

Crossway has nine congregations that hold services in English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean and Indonesian languages. It also holds an online campus that holds multiple services each week.

People

Senior Pastors: