Our Vision Statement

God Glorifying Worship

Our chief purpose in life “is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever” (WSC 1). We strive to have a healthy corporate Sunday worship that focuses on glorifying God. And we know that life continues beyond the confines of the church, and we also aim to bring glory to God every day of our lives. How do we Glorify God? The New City Catechism answers “We glorify God by enjoying him, loving him, trusting him, and by obeying his will, commands, and law.”

A Community

The concept of communal life of the church encompasses both our gathering to worship the Triune God both in formal (Sunday worship and informal (community groups, praise and prayer nights, etc.) worship. It also encompasses our scattering, which takes our kingdom life outside the spaces we worship in, and understands that the life of the church calls us to be faithfully present in all of life.

We desire to be a loving and nurturing gospel community. As a church, we strive to teach people how to love and serve one another in various ways. We believe in the importance of discipling, mentoring, and communing with one another for the goal of spiritual maturity and unity in Christ. We want to be a church that nurtures believers, and we seek to be a gospel community where people can worship God, lovingly care for one another, and reach out to others with the love and message of the gospel.

Broken People

Jesus made it clear why he had come to live among us when he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners” (Mark 2:17). By extension, we understand the Church exists to continue that same inviting call to broken sinners who are desperately in need of God’s reconciling grace. This means that we are not about becoming “better” people, but rather, people who rely on and are filled with the only one who was good, the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ is literally the most beautiful and good news we could imagine; and like all news there is a story of how this news comes to us. Scripture tells us that we are caught up in the grand story of Creation, The Fall, Redemption, and Restoration.

Hope In Jesus

While the word “hope” can often be used as a trite sentiment, the Bible reminds us that we need true hope, and biblical hope gives us life-shaping certainty. True hope is found in Jesus, and we need the living hope of the One who said, “But take heart; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). We live with the blessing of this gospel hope, and we desire to share this hope with a world desperately in need of this living hope.

Following Jesus

We believe that spiritual growth happens when people simultaneously grasp the depth of their own brokenness and the height of God’s love and grace for them in Jesus. This is the re-creative power of the gospel: to turn us from our false-gods, and receive and embrace the incredible adoption we have, as God’s children and heirs of his kingdom. (Romans 8:16-17).

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.

Story of Renewal

The Gospel of Jesus Christ is literally the most beautiful and good news we could imagine; and like all news there is a story of how this news comes to us. Scripture tells us that we are caught up in the grand story of Creation, The Fall, Redemption, and Restoration.

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.
We also believe in the importance of the Great Commission, our Savior’s command to make disciples of all nations. We want to see the spread of the gospel to all nations, and we seek gospel renewal for our community, our city and the world. We value partnering with and supporting missionaries and organizations that labor for the gospel both locally and globally around the world.

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.