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Gospel Good Enough
For the Concrete. Cruciform: Our NBHD Church

We are a cross-shaped family in South Florida — diverse, rooted, and unapologetically gospel-driven. Formed by urban-minority culture, neighborhood realities, and the ancient faith. Built for the block, and everyone on it.

Gospel on the Concrete Deep Discipleship in Real Life South Florida Imago Dei — Everyone's Dignity Neighbor Love · Mercy · Justice Una Familia Cruciform: Cross-Shaped Living Gospel on the Concrete Deep Discipleship in Real Life South Florida Imago Dei — Everyone's Dignity Neighbor Love · Mercy · Justice Una Familia Cruciform: Cross-Shaped Living

Cross-Shaped.
Neighborhood-Rooted.

Cruciform means cross-shaped. Everything we do — how we worship, serve, and love our neighbors — flows from what Jesus did on the cross and what that means for all of life.

We exist as more than a church. We are a movement — a faith family building disciples, developing community, and doing kingdom work in the soil of South Florida. The gospel isn't just for Sunday. It's for your sidewalk, your neighbor's grief, your block's brokenness.

As a replanted church, we carry deep roots and step into a fresh vision: contextually real, racially honest, economically diverse, and genuinely present in this neighborhood.

Deep Discipleship

Formation happens in life, not a classroom. We build disciples in the mess of real relationships.

Gospel Centrality

All of life — relief, reform, family, work — centers on the redemptive arc of the gospel.

Imago Dei

Every person bears God's image. Their dignity, value, and contribution are non-negotiable.

Neighbor Love

Mercy, justice, and hospitality to the most broken — because resurrection is available for everyone.

Community Development

Mission from relief to reform. We organize around real needs with real relationships in our city.

Una Familia

To connect with our church is to enter an additional familia. We love and protect each other — not like a family, but as one.

Communion at a micro-church gathering
"For the gospel to be good it has to be good on the concrete. Good to do more than get us to heaven — but even to bring heaven to earth."
— David Rosa, Lead Pastor
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David & Ruth Rosa — Founders

The unlikely architects of our family and movement. Having married, divorced young, and been remarried through gospel renewal, they carry a deep conviction: if resurrection could restore their dead marriage, it can bring renewal to anyone. David pastors, consults, and trains church planters — especially serving Black and Brown churches across South Florida and the nation. Ruth is a women and family Christian counselor. Together they are building something they never could have planned.

Our
Rhythm

We aren't a traditional once-a-week church. Our rhythm is intentionally designed for deep discipleship in real life — small enough to be known, and large enough to worship together as one family.

In this phase of the replant, we are three micro-churches growing into one full family. Opportunities to love our neighborhood happen every week — check our calendar for what's coming up.

Bi-Weekly
Micro-Church Gatherings
Three intimate micro-churches meet every other week for fellowship, preaching, and prayer. This is the primary space for discipleship, pastoral care, and mission in your actual neighborhood. Small enough to be known. Deep enough to be changed.
Primary Discipleship Space
Monthly
All-Church Gathering
Once a month, all three micro-churches come together. Clear gospel preaching, the sacraments administered, and the whole family aligned. This is where the movement feels its full weight — and its full joy.
Worship · Sacraments · Alignment
Weekly
Neighborhood Love
Loving our neighbors isn't an event — it's our way of life. From medical care to mentorship, food to counseling, our people show up on the block consistently. Check our calendar for upcoming collective opportunities.
Mercy · Justice · Hospitality

The Beauty of
South Florida

We are a church that looks like the neighborhood — and that's on purpose. Our community reflects the vibrant, diverse, Caribbean soul of South Florida: Latino, Haitian, Jamaican, and everyone in between. Urban and real. Formed by hip-hop culture (not a DJ on a stage — something deeper and older). Welcoming of all.

We are minority-led and multicultural — not as a program or a talking point, but as a lived reality. We believe the Church is most beautiful when it looks like the neighborhood God placed it in.

Our team is diverse professionally and demographically. We have plumbers and medics, counselors and coaches — all using their God-given gifts to reach neighbors with the gospel and make our neighborhood whole.

LatinoHaitianJamaican Minority-LedMulticultural UrbanHip-Hop FormedSouth Florida
3
Micro-Churches
1
Monthly Family Gathering
7
Days a Week in the NBHD
Resurrection Available
NBHD Gospel outdoor gathering
Communion at micro-church
Cruciform scaffolding team

Meet the
Family

Lead Pastors & Founders

The Rosas

David Rosa is a pastor, consultant, and church-planting strategist. He helps Black and Brown churches start strong, develop leaders, and care for the poor and marginalized — locally and nationally. He brings street-level credibility and kingdom-level vision to everything he builds.

Ruth Rosa is a women and family Christian counselor by trade — bringing clinical wisdom, pastoral warmth, and deep empathy to the movement she and David are building together.

Their story is the ministry: a couple who married, divorced, and were remarried through the power of the gospel — now living proof that resurrection is available to anyone.

David and Ruth Rosa
Founders

Micro-Church Leads

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The Savilles
Micro-Church Lead Family
Pioneering and shepherding our Jesus + Recovery micro-church — a community built for those in AA, the unhoused, and the often forgotten.
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The Gibsons
Micro-Church Lead Family
Rooting the gospel in South Broward County — building a micro-church of neighbors, disciples, and friends in their corner of South Florida.
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The Mercados
Micro-Church Lead Family
Planted in Miami — leading a micro-church that reflects the diversity, energy, and gospel hunger of one of the most vibrant cities in the world.

Ministry Leaders

Melissa Lamberto
Melissa Lamberto
Minister of Worship
Crafting worship that is theologically grounded and culturally alive — rooted in the soul of South Florida.
Jacquie Mathai
Jacquie Mathai
Minister of Missional Mobilization
Equipping and deploying our people for gospel witness — connecting gifts to need across the neighborhood.
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Emma Bowing
Community Organizer
Connecting church and block through relationships, partnerships, and practical love for our neighbors.

Executive Team

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Fern Sewell-Rush
Executive Team
Helping build the infrastructure and culture that allows this movement to grow with integrity and sustainability.
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Angel Lamberto
Executive Team
Bringing leadership, strategy, and operational clarity to the work God is doing through Cruciform.
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Michelle Mercado
Executive Team
Serving the movement with wisdom, care, and commitment to see this community flourish and multiply.

Recent
Preaching

David Rosa preaching
Series: The Cruciform Life
Taking Up Your Cross on Your Block
David Rosa · Luke 9:23
David Rosa preaching
Series: The Cruciform Life
Resurrection Is For Everyone
David Rosa · Romans 6:1–11
Ruth Rosa preaching
Series: Imago Dei
Every Image-Bearer on Your Street
David Rosa · Genesis 1:26–27

We Don't Ask
for Resources.
We Mobilize Them.

Our immigrant neighbors are suffering. We don't have the resources to deeply impact that community alone — and we're not trying to. We think from abundance and dignity, not deficit. That changes everything about how we work.

On Maundy Thursday, we partnered with Proclaim Church (who had a building), accessed resources from Church United and CTCM (who had funds), engaged The Guatemalan-Maya Center (who had direct community relationships), and mobilized Cruciform volunteers — and we hosted a meal that guests said "hadn't been done as long as they can remember."

In Miami, we grieved the abject poverty in Liberty City and didn't wait. We unleashed our members to launch NBHD Medical — a redemptive nonprofit that partnered with New Life Missionary Baptist Church (who had property), coordinated with City to City Miami, and mobilized 30 local healthcare providers to deliver screenings, food, and social service referrals to Miami residents.

We didn't build a new organization from scratch. We activated what was already there.

"Cruciform is still in the early stages of being replanted. We don't have the resources to tackle these problems alone — but when we engage with what's already in the community, we have everything we need."
Maundy Thursday · Lake Worth
A Meal for Immigrant Neighbors That Hadn't Been Done "As Long As They Could Remember"
Zero budget. Full impact. By connecting existing assets — a building, funding networks, a nonprofit with community trust, and our volunteers — we hosted what guests called one of the biggest blessings they'd experienced.
Proclaim Church Church United CTCM Guatemalan-Maya Center Cruciform Volunteers
Liberty City Health Fair · Miami
30 Healthcare Providers. One Neighborhood. NBHD Medical Born.
Our members launched a redemptive nonprofit, activated a church with property but few members, and coordinated 30 local healthcare providers to deliver screenings, food, and social service referrals to Miami's most underserved neighborhoods.
NBHD Medical New Life Missionary Baptist City to City Miami 30+ Healthcare Providers
The Bigger Picture
9 Years of Learning. Now Ready for Decades.
Our micro-churches are running and reaching. Our community development work is already blessing other churches — with the little we have. We're not asking you to fund a dream. We're asking you to fuel a movement that's already in motion.

Imagine what happens when we're sustainable. We've proven the model. Now we need partners to multiply it.

Invest in the Movement

Put Your
Money on Resurrection.

We are in an active replant — building something from the ground up, with kingdom stakes. Your giving isn't a donation. It's a declaration that the gospel is worth it in South Florida's most vibrant and underserved neighborhoods.

Cruciform is connected to the NBHD Roots movement — a network of community development, soul care, and church planting. When you give here, your money moves.

  • Micro-church gatherings, facilities, and pastoral support
  • Neighborhood mercy work — food, medical care, counseling access
  • Discipleship resources and leader development
  • Monthly all-church worship gatherings
  • Youth and next-generation ministry
  • Community organizing and neighborhood partnerships

Give to the Movement

Choose an amount that reflects your partnership. Every gift sustains the mission.

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Cruciform is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. All gifts are tax-deductible.

Questions? Reach out — we'd love to share more about where your giving goes.

Let's
Connect.

Whether you're looking for a church home, curious about the movement, want to bring your gifts to the mission, or just need someone to talk to — reach out. We're real people, and we'd love to meet you.

Emailinfo@nbhdroots.org
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LocationGreater Miami Area, South Florida
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