Crossway Baptist Church

Crossway Baptist Church
Crossway Baptist Church
	Crossway Baptist worship service in 2008
	37°51′33″S 145°10′02″E / 37.859083°S 145.1672922°E
Address	2 Vision Drive, Burwood East, Melbourne, Victoria
Country	Australia
Denomination	Baptist
Associations	Australian Baptist Ministries
Churchmanship	Evangelical
Campuses	4
Website	www.crossway.org.au
History
Former name(s)	Blackburn Baptist Church (1954 – 1996)
Status	Church
Founded	1954
Founder(s)	Rev. J. H. Newnham
Architecture
Architectural type	Church
Style	Postmodern architecture
Clergy
Pastor(s)	Dale Stephenson - Senior Pastor

Crossway Baptist Church is a Baptist evangelical multi-site megachurch based in Burwood East, in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The church is affiliated with the Australian Baptist Ministries.

History

The church was founded by the Reverend J. H. Newnham in 1954 as Blackburn Baptist Church.^[1]^[2] The congregation originally met in a small hall as a Sunday school class on the corner of Holland and Canterbury Roads in Blackburn South.^[1]

The church then relocated to 19 Holland Road, Blackburn South (now the site of New Life Evangelical Church), and later moved in September 1995 to the current location, 2 Vision Drive, Burwood East, after which it changed its name to Crossway Baptist Church the following year. In February 2008, Dale Stephenson became Senior Pastor of the church.^{[citation needed]}

The overall attendance for 2016 was 6,675.^[3]^{[self-published source?]}

Locations

Crossway has planted daughter churches in Craigieburn, Cranbourne, Moreland and Stonnington as well as a number of other smaller experimental church plants.^[4]^[5]

They planted a second campus in 2016 in Berwick, in southeastern Melbourne. In 2021, Brighton Baptist Church became the third campus of Crossway.^{[citation needed]}

As of 2023^[update], Crossway had four campuses: Burwood East, South East (located at Nossal High School), Brighton, and Maroondah (located at Ringwood Secondary College).^[6]