THE SPIRIT AELa%E I City Region I The RFctister-Guard I ,;gene. Oregon <br />71'.01114 1: u Pod <br />' "I've had people say, `The south hills? You're not going to work out there,"' Taylor says. <br />'T,e been told this is its oivn conlrnunity. People are different here. But I believe _people <br />are-the same ever~,ivhere: <br />The new Crossfire Family Worship Center has opened its doors at 4o6o W. Amazon <br />Parkway-in a wilding most recently used l?y:Cah-a Fells i~sliip a-church. leaded by for- <br />mer University of Oregon Duck quarterback Danny O'Neil. The size of O'Neil's congre- <br />gation slid, though, from a peak of about Boo members to something fewer than 200, <br />Taylor said, and the building was headed for foreclosure last year. <br />Taylor, a self-assured and charismatic figure ~vho had been Malting to expand his min- <br />istry beyond just Springfield, said he was able to assume Calvary's loan with help from <br />the proceeds of a donated Cadillac Escalade. Even so, he had to push hard to open the <br />church`s doors this weel~end. <br />"I was N orking until 2 O*clock last night getting things painted," he said. <br />Sunday's io a.m. worship drew perhaps 300 people, mostly from the Springfield church, <br />to a two-hour sen4ce that opened'116th aChristian pop band performing hymns, includ- <br />ed a flock of banner-wairing young people who looked like they- NNere on loan from a pep <br />squad, and wound its way gradually toward Taylor's energetic sermon. <br />This is- Praying-and-swayJng Christianity, hands in the air, one middle-aged woman <br />dancing in the aisles, with occasional outbursts of "thank you, Jesus" from the faithful. <br />Crossfire.is..desigiied. exp-licitly t.o_fit.contemporai1- life. The Oiitreach.Cafe,..Nvbieb serv-es <br />food in the church building. offers four high tables tivith stools; right in the church hall, <br />where you can sip coffee and eat muffins while enjoying the sermon. <br />The dress code is small4own Oregon through and through: baseball caps, lobo'd T- <br />shirts, blue jeans, cargo shorts and Dick paraphernalia take the place of anything <br />approaching Sunday best. <br />'The church embraces technology thoroughly. SpraAvling video screens sllm,r the N~ords <br />to h}:n?ns, Should anyone iN'ish to sine, along ANith the -oung people on stage. Staff nien~- <br />h'1p: ,„,special <br />'-f`i, CCU f12 S~~'c~cc Q-`tli r!;l; P: ,'~Or-_i G55f' SL;n(~d SpUt~1.~t rc1LC_ P, e ~ -.r r <br />