Our Story

Our Story and What We are Building in Boone, NC

King's Cross formed in early 2024. We began discussions in 2019, bought a building in the summer of 2021, and in the summer of 2022 we began holding bi-monthly meetings on weeknights. In February of 2024, we held our first Sunday worship service as King's Cross Reformed Church.

Our Goals

Our goal is to build a church community that is warm-hearted, Spirit-filled and evangelistic but which is also rigorously grounded in the theological distinctives of the Reformed faith as expounded in the reformation era confessions. We believe that that balance is important for the health, vigor and longevity of a local congregation. 

We want to help Christians lay solid foundations and build for the long run. This includes building strong marriages and families. We want to challenge and equip Christians to disciple their children, develop their God given gifts and impact all of their spheres of influence for Christ. We want to see families and churches grow in faithfulness and power across generations. Slow is fast. We want to deeply impact families, our community and our culture.

We believe strongly in family education, discipleship and family worship. Along this line, we have recently started a library at the church with 300+ books for children and young adults.

Our church vision is to worship together and share life together. We don't seek to build a church with a huge number of programs. We want to worship together and equip the saints to do the work of the ministry in their own lives and callings. We achieve that through teaching and relationships.

Our Outlook and Beliefs

King's Cross holds to reformed covenant theology. We believe that the Apostle's Creed and the Nicene Creed faithfully reflect the teaching of the Bible about God and salvation. Our confessional standard, subordinate to the Bible, for matters of faith is the Westminster Confession of Faith.

We believe in bible-centered, expository preaching and enthusiastic corporate worship. We sing Psalms, hymns and contemporary songs. But our home base in corporate worship is the theological richness of the Psalms. 

We have an optimistic outlook about the church of Jesus Christ. Jesus is building His church and she will grow to become a mature, godly bride. In other words, we may be here for a while. So, we are building culture, community and institutions with vision for the next 1,000 years. We believe that that this journey begins with local church community. 

More broadly, we believe that society and culture are downstream from the church. As the church goes, so goes the culture.  We believe that the church of Jesus will actually disciple the nations because Jesus is building His church.

Calling a Full Time Pastor

In January of 2024, James H. Lynch of Raleigh, NC accepted the full time pastor position at King's Cross. He and his wife, Elizabeth, and their children moved to Boone in April. James was looking for a pastoral position in the CREC, but ultimately came with us instead. James has a true pastor's heart for discipleship, families and outreach in the community.

A Little About Boone, NC

Boone is a town of about 30,000 people in the mountains of Western NC near the Tennessee and Virginia borders. Appalachian State University is here. Boone is a popular tourist destination year round with 3 ski resorts, summer hiking, rafting, tubing, leaf season and cool temperatures.

Real estate and the building trades are large employers including short term rental management to support tourism and annual rentals to support the college. As remote work has grown more feasible, many people have recently relocated to Boone from Charlotte, NC and similar locales. Lawyers, software developers, etc. Also, Franklin Graham and his disaster relief ministry Samaritan's Purse are located in Boone.

Boone is 2 hours to Charlotte, 1 hour to Winston Salem, 3 hours to Raleigh, 3 hours to Knoxville and 5 hours to Atlanta.