Our Story

Our Story and What We are Building in Boone, NC

King's Cross formed in early 2024 after much prayer. We wanted to "count the cost" before committing to build and support a local church fellowship. We began discussions in 2019. We bought a building in Boone in the summer of 2021. Our plans slowed down in the fall when the Kennedy's lost their 11 year old son, John Rogers, in a 4-wheeler accident. In the summer of 2022, we picked back up and began talking with leaders in several church denominations. We live in changing times. Even denominations are changing. The result of our search was that we ultimately 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.

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.

Why King's Cross Church?

There were very few reformed churches in the area, and there were none with a postmil/theocratic outlook. That is why we started a new fellowship. 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 church community.

My business partner, David Kennedy, and I (John White) have been close friends for 30 years. We were roommates at Vanderbilt in Nashville, TN in the 90's. We began our careers and families together in Atlanta. Then in the early 2000's we both moved to Boone to go into business together.

Today we have a business with 110 employees that serves the tourist trade. Our business has a mix of office positions (operations, marketing, client management, etc.) and maintenance and field type positions. We are growing and usually have job openings available. David and his wife have 12 children and my wife and I have 7, some of whom are grown and married.

Our church vision is worship and community driven. Worship together and share life together. David and I have been doing that for many years and we want to build church community around that same vision. We don't seek to build a church with a litany of programs. Our vision is 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.

Calling a Full Time Pastor

In January of this year, James H. Lynch of Raleigh, NC accepted the full time pastor position at King's Cross. He and his wife, Elizabeth, and their 4 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.

King's Cross Distinctives

King's Cross Church in Boone holds to reformed covenant theology. 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 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 key is the 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 in build well in our generation with our eyes on the future and God's promises.

We love the Puritans, Banner of Truth, the Theonomists and Van Til. We are on board with the broad goals of Christian Nationalism though we promote greater reliance within that movement on the sword of God's word (Psalm 149). In today's scene, we are hearty Doug Wilson appreciators. Our confessional standard is the Westminster Confession of Faith.

We have recently started a library for the Christian homeschool community in Boone. Other gifts and goals of our church members include building structure to support homeschool families within our church, worldview education for older teens and young adults, apologetics training, evangelism, entrepreneurship, local and state political action, building intellectual community, publishing, homebuilding, tactical civilian combat training, and more. But who knows what God will do. We simply want to provide equipping, foundation and support for the saints to do it.

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