Cross saw boost in visitors last year The Cross at the Crossroads attracted nearly 10,000 visitors in 2014. This file photo shows the cross colored red for Good Friday last year.Nash Namm photo
Posted on 01/31/2015 7:01:03 AM PST by KeyLargo
Southern Illinois cross drew nearly 10,000 visitors in 2014
The Associated Press January 31, 2015
EFFINGHAM, Ill. — Officials say a nearly 200-foot tall cross in Southern Illinois recorded close to 10,000 visitors last year.
The Effingham Daily News reports (http://bit.ly/1CURTZD ) 9,479 people visited the Cross at the Crossroads. That's about 2,000 more visitors than in 2013.
The cross and Welcome Center are located along Interstate 57 near Effingham.
Carol Gapsis is the director of the Welcome Center. She says the cross is more than just another landmark for travelers.
Gapsis says: "It serves as a beacon of hope for people."
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Cross saw boost in visitors last year The Cross at the Crossroads attracted nearly 10,000 visitors in 2014. This file photo shows the cross colored red for Good Friday last year.Nash Namm photo
Right down the road from me...
There’s a tall Cross on a hill along I-40, near Cookeville, TN. Best seen when you’re eastbound, and a comfort to the soul.
ACLU protests its presence since it is visible from a federally funded roadway.
Do people in the area consider Effingham Southern Illinois? That designation is nebulous, but I think of Little Egypt starting just north of Mount Vernon, maybe around Centralia.
What comforts my soul is not a huge cross but an infinite Savior who died on a cross.
That tells me not “my church or religion is in charge” but “my Savior is in charge.”
Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis has three giant crosses right next to I-40. I believe the center cross is 150 feet high. The lights were turned on for the first time on December 31, 1999, at midnight. Reportedly some truckers got quite a shock.
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I think we saw that on the way back from Canada last year. Rather amazing.
I’m surprised it’s still standing there.
Aren’t they afraid to affeeeeeeeeend non-Christians in general and muzzies, in particular?
[I’m surprised it’s still standing there.}
Christians must decree, “NO CROSS shall be removed on private or public property in America.”
Job 22:28 - Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
Life or death is in the tongue.
From Madison County (St. Louis area) and southward is considered southern Illinois. I-70 provides a rough northern boundary. By that reckoning, Effigham would be southern Illinois, but just barely. The”Little Egypt” designation, as you point out, occurs farther south, though.
I live just north of Charleston and we consider this area to be South Central Illinois. Have to figure a way to carve out Chicago and float it to Canada and Illinois might actually turn around!
Well you could always undermine it with tunnels and it would fall below the water level of Lake Michigan.
“Run for you lives...it’s every RAT for himself!”
My first thought was that this article was about Bald Knob Cross....I consider Effingham more of central Illinois.
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