St Mary's Church

First Presbyterian Church of Crown Point, Indiana, is a welcoming community that invites all to experience spiritual growth through worship, fellowship, and outreach activities. The church offers a variety of programs including Sunday services, food pantries, and art shows, all aimed at fostering connections among members and the wider community. Grounded in Christ, the church emphasizes love and inclusivity, encouraging individuals to know, grow, and reflect Christ's teachings in their lives. With activities tailored for all ages, including adult ministries and children's programs, First Presbyterian Church strives to create a nurturing environment for spiritual development and communal support. Generated from the website

CrossPoint Church is an evangelical, charismatic church committed to living out the supremacy of Christ in an atmosphere of grace, truth, and reality.While CrossPoint is a new congregation in Crown Point, we're not really brand new. We began in Crown Point in March of 2006 as an extension congregation of Living Word Church, in Lansing, Illinois. Living Word has a twenty-five year history in the Lansing/South Holland area, and we maintain an ongoing cooperation together as sister churches.CHURCH LEADERSHIPWe are committed to the principles of humility, plurality, and teamwork in our leadership. CrossPoint Church is led by a team of elders. Together with our wives, this team consists of:John Leitzel serves as an elder and the lead pastor for CrossPoint. John completed a Ph.D.in synthetic bio-organic chemistry at the University of Chicago in 1996, and was a tenured chemistry professor at Chicago State University prior to joining the full-time pastoral staff at Living Word Church in 2001. John & Karen live in Crown Point with their daughters Elizabeth and Sarah. Karen practices medicine as a family physician in Crown Point.