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December 17th, 2025
by Carrie Carpenter, Spiritual Life & Recreation Coordinator
December is a month of busy anticipation! We often find ourselves caught up in the hustle and bustle of preparing…
November 26th, 2025
I found a lifelong love in a middle school band room playing a used clarinet–the art of practice. I…
October 9th, 2025
by Andrew Florence, Director of Experiential Learning and Patrick Cole, Adventure Based Learning Coordinator
The Joy of Discovery There’s a simple joy to watching a kid figure something out. Picture the face of…
July 11th, 2025
by Crossnore Staff
Gardening has never been my strongest skill. I’ve always appreciated its beauty and value, the power of learning about…
May 30th, 2025
by Megan Boyles, Spiritual Life and Recreation Manager
Love. Celebration. Future Goals. These three themes ran through every graduation I had the joy of attending this year.…
April 28th, 2025
“Mrs. Meg, we are all traumatized already.” That was part of the greeting I received when I walked into…
April 21st, 2025
by Jim Hart, Dir. of Christian Experience & Education
Spring has fully arrived on our Winston Campus and is beginning to blossom on our Avery Campus and at…
April 14th, 2025
by Cynthia Gamble, Spiritual Life & Recreation Coordinator
Order vs. Growth What’s more important, the straight row, or the act of planting that one small seed that…
March 31st, 2025
Finding Comfort in Community Over the past few months, I have been one of the “new people” on campus…
February 10th, 2025
At the start of my time in my role at Crossnore, I was told that a big part of…
December 19th, 2024
Christmas is a time filled with joy, love and celebration, but the true essence of this season is so…
September 13th, 2024
by Meredith Martin, Vice President of Programs
It’s Tuesday afternoon and the middle schoolers have arrived back home. Preteens pour in the door and head straight…
July 10th, 2024
When I started working at Crossnore, I had zero idea how much “the kids at work” would become so…
March 28th, 2024
March 21st, 2024
There are only 24 hours in a day for all of us. But have you ever wondered what a…
February 8th, 2024
“Ms. Megan, I love you. I love you, even though you are a Christian.” I can clearly hear those…
August 24th, 2023
When I began at Crossnore as the Winston-Salem campus's Spiritual Life & Recreation Coordinator, I learned that I would…
January 12th, 2023
I remember first hearing the phrase, "That was a God wink,” at summer camp when I was in seventh…
June 8th, 2022
At Crossnore we learn and live and work through the Sanctuary Model of care. This model informs how we…
June 2nd, 2022
On any given day I find myself learning all over again about the goodness and love of God. From…
April 14th, 2022
If you ask me to tell you about Easter when I was younger I would tell you all about…
December 16th, 2021
I miss standing around a tailgate on cold Christmas Eves with Hart men waiting for the heat of a…
January 7th, 2021
Every winter my wife Caroline and I try to have a getaway, just the two of us. Typically, we…
August 27th, 2020
Every Monday morning at 8:30, we have a time for prayer in the campus chapel. Most Mondays, the same…
December 11th, 2019
Growing up southern meant many things. In the summer it meant you grew tomatoes and green beans and collards.…
September 19th, 2019
by Patrice Williams, Director of Communications
As a child, I especially looked forward to dinner time. If it was summer, I had been outside most…
August 23rd, 2019
On a daily basis, we walk a cultural, social, and theological field of land mines. Not the instantly explosive,…
June 28th, 2019
The below letter was written by our Director of Christian Education & Campus Pastor, Jim Hart, after a joint-campus…
May 9th, 2019
Part of Cottage Parent training at Crossnore is learning about our Spiritual Life programing. Every Monday morning at 9am…
March 22nd, 2019
There's something about spring that makes me begin to reflect. After the cold, dark, rainy winter, it's beyond refreshing…
November 17th, 2015
At The Crossnore School, community partnerships play a vital role in providing extra experiences for our students, who come…
