ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
Three days of worship, teaching, and honest engagement with many of the most pressing questions facing the church today.
November 5–7, 2026
Grace Midtown Church in Atlanta, Georgia
This will be our second gathering for CATX, following the conference held in Glen Ellyn, Illinois over September 11-13, 2025.
Learn from PalestInian Christians
Palestinian Christians have followed Jesus in the Holy Land for nearly two thousand years. Their experience of faith — shaped by the land, the history, and the present reality of life and devastation in Palestine — carries profound and urgent insight for the American Church. Hosted by Palestinian Christians, Church at the Crossroads is a gathering for believers to grapple with what Gospel witness requires at this defining moment in history after the destruction of Gaza.
For many of us in the United States, inherited interpretations of the Bible have shaped how we answer questions of justice and faithfulness — too often making it easier for us to excuse injustice than to confront it, easier to identify with the powerful than with the vulnerable. Meanwhile, many of us have retreated into silence in the face of the ongoing war in Gaza — a silence that has itself become a form of complicity, and one that has deeply harmed global Christian witness and our sisters and brothers in Palestine.
Standing at this historic crossroads, we must ask ourselves: Has our Christian faith been reduced to a tool for violence and injustice? Have we exchanged the gospel of peace and reconciliation for the illusions of comfort and security? And as the Church, we must choose: Will we bow to the political idols of our day, or will we seek to follow Jesus, the one who is ever-challenging our understandings of power and love, and who made peace through his blood?
For Christians carrying genuine theological dissonance about these questions, Church at the Crossroads offers a space for learning, honest reckoning, and fellowship. Rooted in Biblical faith and guided by Palestinian Christian leaders alongside pastors and peacemakers from across North America, the conference calls believers into the urgent work of renewal, peacemaking, and courageous discipleship, as we challenge harmful theologies and cultivate the theological clarity, moral courage, and hope the Church needs for this moment.
On a global scale, Gospel witness is at stake. Jesus is calling the Church — not to comfort, but to faithfulness.
Will we follow?
Our Declaration
Our response to the public Calls of Palestinian Christians
We invite you, fellow Christians in America and beyond, to sign this statement with us as a declaration of allegiance to the crucified and risen Christ who calls us to love our neighbor, seek justice, and walk humbly with God.
TestimonialS
“CATX was not just a conference - it was an act of holy resistance to harmful ideologies saturated with peace and hope and commitment to the gospel of Jesus Christ. I believe it was the single most significant conference I've ever attended and I walked away not only more committed to justice, but more in love with Jesus."
—Stephanie Bernotas, CATX’25 Attendee
"Church at the Crossroads was a clarion call to put down the tools of empire and recenter ourselves on the cross of Christ as peacemakers. I believe the voices of Palestinian Christians are a gift to the church today. Bringing clarity, commitment to the kingdom ethic of neighbor and enemy love, and a timely challenge to count the cost of discipleship. It's our privilege and responsibility to follow their example and join them in working for justice and peace."
—Beck Gambill, Christian & Missionary Alliance International Worker
"I attended CATX virtually and found each session to be challenging, educational, inspiring, and simultaneously heartbreaking and encouraging. I 'leave' the conference changed. Anyone who takes the time to understand and engage in Israel-Palestine is experiencing a personal Kairos moment. Let us respond to it in the footprint of Jesus Christ, not the shadow of empire."
—Melissa Dean, M. Min. Student in Theology & Culture, St. Stephen's University
"I have to confess that I had written off evangelicals as all being Christian Zionists. At CATX I witnessed the work of the Spirit being done in all kinds of people and felt pushed to have more faith in God's people and to be open to the possibilities for building a bigger and stronger coalition working for justice and peace."
—Rev. Sabrina Jennings, United Church of Christ
Church at the crossroads 2025
