Jonathan Mitchell
At our Membership Celebration on September 19, we had the privilege of installing three new deacons to our leadership team at Crosspoint. So far, we have introduced Deacons David Engel and Steve Hay on our blog and social media, and now, we are pleased to introduce Deacon Jonathan Mitchell!
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Jonathan and his wife Amy have been with us at Crosspoint since April 2018. Together, they faithfully lead a community group; Amy serves as a greeter, and Jonathan leads our Safety and Security Ministry.
Married for 28 years, the Mitchells have two sons -- Brian (a Dallas firefighter who lives in Royse City with his wife, Rachel); and Bradley (a freshman at Texas A&M and a member of the Corps of Cadets and Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band). Jonathan currently works as a security professional specializing in both Information Security and Physical Security; he is also a retired military veteran with 22 years of DoD service.
A pastor’s son, Jonathan moved a lot growing up and continued moving throughout his time in the military. He met his bride while on active duty and their first son was born while stationed at Camp Lejeune, NC. After nine years of active duty service together, the Mitchells left the Navy and settled in Kansas City, MO where Jonathan obtained a degree in Computer Information Systems and an MBA with a concentration in Information Security Management.
The Mitchells first began attending Crosspoint after their son Bradley attended Launch Box with our youth group. After returning, he wanted to visit his new friends at their church, so they agreed to “visit”. After their fourth visit in a row, they discovered that Bradley loved attending Crosspoint because they were “going deeper into the Word” and that he had been struggling with the “seeker-focused” approach at their old church.
Jonathan said, “Amy and I also realized that over the years we had been subtly lured into becoming more like consumers of the gospel instead of doers. What we had been missing and craving we found at Crosspoint -- a community focused on knowing God through expository study and teaching of His word; an authentic relational community of believers connecting and serving each other with transparency, intentionality, and accountability; and a missional church “making Him known” by training, equipping, and sending.”
When asked how the Lord is growing him in this season, Jonathan said, “We are living in chaotic and tumultuous times. It’s so easy to become distracted in a season full of fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Satan would use such circumstances to create division; in our community, in the Church, and in our homes. But these are also the very circumstances that the lost become more receptive to the gospel through the work of the Holy Spirit. Over the last year I have been very focused on standing in the gap for others through intercessory prayer, “putting on the whole armor…” (Eph 6:10-20) and engaging in the spiritual war raging around us, being a more active, intentional, fruit bearing member of the body, and shoring up the gaps in areas I’m prone to fumble, like how I serve and minister to the needs of my bride.”
In his free time, Jonathan is an avid outdoorsman and firearms enthusiast. He enjoys minimalist camping, high adventure trekking, hiking, hunting, fishing, shooting, and pretty much anything outdoors.
We are thrilled to have Jonathan on our team of deacons at Crosspoint! Comment below with a note of encouragement for the Mitchells.
