Workers prepare to set and bolt down the first of three giant crosses at The Crossing Church on Wednesday. The crosses, one at 125 feet and two at 100 feet, will be the tallest in the area and give the church an identity to people passing on I-75. The project has been in the works for over eight-years and should come to completion within the next there days.VIDEO
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Derek Myrick from Laurel, Mississippi, looks skyward as storm clouds roll in and workers finish erecting the bases of three giant crosses at The Crossing Church on Wednesday, August 7, 2013. The crosses, one at 125 feet and two at 100 feet, will be the tallest in the area and give the church an identity to people passing on I-75. The project has been in the works for over 8-years and should come to completion within the next there days.Seventy-five thousand cars pass the site on Interstate 75 every day, most oblivious of the cluster of brick buildings between the Bonny Oaks and Shallowford Road exits on the east side of the highway.
By the end of the week, nobody who passes The Crossing Church will be able to miss it.
A 125-foot-high cross, the tallest in the area, flanked by two 100-foot crosses, will mark the Church of God congregation. The smaller crosses are about as tall as downtown’s Krystal Building and Sheraton Read House, while the tallest is about as high as Patten Towers and the DoubleTree Hotel.
The Rev. Terry Harris, senior pastor of Crossing Church, said the crosses — a $700,000 project — are meant as a daily witness to passers-by.