Our Future
One would think Crossroads Ministry would be content with providing a safe haven for single mothers and their babies, but, lucky for them we have another goal to fulfill.

It is to provide business training for those moms who don’t appear to be headed toward any special direction, either with schooling or with a job that doesn't bring in enough to support them and their baby without government subsidies, a place to learn all of the integral parts and pieces that go into running a small business. It will be a hands-on experience and one that would enable them to apply what they have learned to the outside world in several different aspects when they are ready to be out on their own. The main focus of this training is to learn business from the ground up and eventually open a Tea Room/One of a Kind Shoppe.

Those interested would put together a business plan, design the interior, be the decorators, develop the design and layout of the menu and help choose the menu items. The young women will learn from someone that has already opened a tea room and run it successfully. At present, we know two or three women who have opened their own tea rooms and might be willing to bring that expertise to those interested, including the housemother. They will be involved in all aspects of setting up and running a business, from working in the kitchen with the cook, to serving, cashiering, greeting, managing, to the final day's cleanup and setting up for the next day. They will learn how to speak graciously, dress with taste, and serve others with a smile, regardless of how their day is going. We will have computers and someone to teach them the in's and out's of using them for setting up a business and searching for all of those many iitem needed to run a successful business.

It is very important to us to teach these young women that they can find jobs that will let them raise their children without government support and in doing so, raise their self-esteem to prove to themselves and their families that they are worth their weight in gold and can provide a good home for their little ones.

On the one-of-a-kind shop side they will work on their own projects in whatever area is of interest to them. Who knows what special talent lays beneath the surface that has never had a chance to blossom. We hope to give them a change to develop their own trash to treasure art for house or garden that they can look at and know it was theirs from beginning to end.