Our Story

Our story began back in 2018 when a small team decided to run a conference about singleness. We called it...

At the time, many single Christians felt overlooked in church conversations about relationships and discipleship.;

Single Minded started as a one-off conference designed to open up a better conversation—one that took both Scripture and real life seriously.

What followed over the next eight years as something we didn't quite expect... 

35+ events & 60+ speakers

Over 6000 tickets sold

Attendees from 21 countries

Single Minded had grown into a community of people exploring how the gospel reshapes the way we think about singleness, but also marriage, friendship, and life together in the church. Through events, resources, and conversations, thousands of Christians joined us in rethinking relationships in light of Christ.

But along the way we discovered that the questions people were asking were bigger than singleness alone...

They were really about relationships more broadly—about what it means to live as brothers and sisters in Christ in a culture marked by loneliness, confusion, and shifting ideas about love and belonging. So in 2026, Single Minded became….

Cross Related grew out of everything God did through Single Minded, expanding the conversation to explore the full picture of relationships shaped by the cross of Christ. Importantly, Cross Related wasn’t a move away from singleness, but an effort to locate singleness within the broader, richer vision of relational life that the gospel creates.

Welcome to the next chapter of our ministry.

To see the church embody gospel-shaped relationships that honour Christ, build up his people, and draw the world to him.

Our Vision

Equipping Christians and churches to live out relationships shaped distinctively by the gospel in a confusing and weary world.

Our Mission

Watch the announcement of Cross Related's launch