Our Story

Our Story and What We are Building in Boone, NC

King's Cross formed in early 2024 after much prayer. We began discussions in 2019. We bought a building in Boone in the summer of 2021. Our plans slowed down in the fall when one of our founding families lost their 11 year old son in a 4-wheeler accident. In the summer of 2022, we picked back up and began talking with leaders in several church denominations. The result was that we decided to constitute as an independent church. We are open to denominational affiliation down the road but we believe that a well-constituted, elder-led church built by godly men and like-minded families is a ship that can weather storms. In time, we may affiliate or we may plant other churches and form broader affiliation in that way.

Our Goals

Our goal is to build a church 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. That balance is sometimes hard to achieve. But we believe that balance is important in the health, vigor and longevity of a local congregation. 

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

We believe strongly in family discipleship and family worship. We believe intentionality regarding education and family culture is a critical aspect of family discipleship. As a tool in supporting this goal, 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 litany 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

We have an optimistic outlook about the course of history. We believe that Christ is building a church that will actually disciple the nations. We believe that society and culture are downstream from the church. As the church goes, so goes the culture.  We believe that education and laws should be Christian because Jesus is King and Lord over every area of life. We want to build culture, community and institutions with vision for the next 1,000 years. And we believe that journey and broader fellowship begins with local church community.

King's Cross holds to reformed covenant theology. Our confessional standard is the Westminster Confession of Faith. We are postmil, theocratic and building for the long run. We want to equip Christians to build strong marriages and families as a foundation to disciple their children and teach their children to do the same. We want to see families and churches grow across generations. Slow is fast. We want to deeply impact our community and our culture.

We believe the church of Jesus Christ is responsible for society. We have been commissioned by Christ with all the authority needed to disciple the nations. The pace of history is set by the growth in faithfulness of God's people. We believe that God is discipling His people to maturity (Eph 4:13) and the gates of hell will not prevail against His church (Mt 16:18). We may still be in the early innings of the ballgame. Our goal is to serve and build well in our generation with our eyes on future generations all the while rejoicing in God's promises.

We love the Puritans, Banner of Truth, the Theonomists and Cornelius Van Til. We are on board with the broad goals of Christian Nationalism. We want to see our nation be a Christian nation. But contrary to some in that movement, we do not believe that a Christian nation needs to be a single ethnic group (strange to need to say this). In today's Christian cultural landscape, we are hearty appreciators of Doug Wilson, Kevin Swanson, Michael Foster, the CREC, the CPC, the NCFIC.

Thanks for reading our story. If you share similar vision, we are interested to know you.

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.