Crossway Baptist Church, Vic, AU

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Crossway Baptist Church is Australia’s largest Baptist church, located in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs. Regular attendance at Sunday services is over 3,500 people.

Crossway have links with World Vision, Tabor College and the Salt Shakers lobby group. They also host the Crossway Conference, that attracts over 1000 delegates annually, mainly pastors and other Christian leaders. Crossway have planted daughter churches in Moreland, Stonnington and Cranbourne. They have a childrens ministry called Refresh and a Youth Ministry called Deeper.

Stuart Robinson, a former missionary, is the senior pastor. He wrote Mosques and Miracles, a book about Islam written from a Christian perspective.

The church has its own bookstore in which Christian reading material and CD's can be bought.

Brothers Tim Costello (CEO of World Vision) and Peter Costello (Australian Treasurer) both attended the church over a period of time when it was known as Blackburn Baptist Church and on a much smaller property.