For a decade now, the motto of Calvary Bible Church has been “Changed Lives, Changing Lives!” The motto may be relatively new, but ever since Calvary’s birth, back in the 60’s (then called Calvary Independent Baptist Church), the mission of the church has always been the same – to seek and save those who are lost!

Originally Baptist by denomination, Calvary was birthed by Pastor Gene Corbett, and from the 1960’s until 1994 was led by pastors connected to the General Association of Regular Baptists.

In May of 1994, our current pastor, James McCartney, an Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship leader and Seminary graduate, became the leader of the new Calvary Bible Church. Under his leadership (and the watchful care of our elders), our original core of about 5 people, Calvary has persevered through many major transformations such as shedding our denominational ties and becoming a young, contemporary, non-denominational church connected to the Willow Creek Association and the Purpose Driven Church movements.

Those changes, along with the guidance of the Scriptures and the blessing of the Holy Spirit, have helped Calvary grow from its original handful in 1994, to a crowd of hundreds in 2008! 

For several years, we were ‘one church’ meeting in ‘two buildings’ and in ‘two services.’ We shared space with the local public school (just a ½ a block from our location) – allowing Calvary to take advantage of our own church/office facilities as well as use the auditorium and classrooms of the Jordan Road School on the weekends as a part of our portable church experiment.

After exploring options for growth by looking at potential new properties and other space sharing options we prayerfully prepared for our church's future.  Our most current plans include the purchase and renovation of a property connected to our church facility and the renovation/expansion of our facility so that we may once again use it as our home base for ministry and our potential multi-site church locations.  It is exciting!  Check out the latest news on our Building Campaign here.

While we do not know all of what God will do, it remains our prayer that God will use Calvary Bible Church, it’s members and its ministers, to reach thousands for Christ in our local community…and the world!