Faith Archive

Pastor Curt Rainey has been associated with First Baptist Church of Holt for the better part of 30 years in several different capacities.

In 1994 while serving in the United States Air Force, Rainey was a member of the church.

Mike McVay wears many hats in the Laurel Hill community. He’s a volunteer with the fire department. Or, perhaps you’ve seen him as the Hobo mascot for Laurel Hill School.

Established in 2009, Grace Redeemer Church is doing its part to reach the Crestview community for Christ.

Pastor Tyson Turner has been at the church, which meets in a red brick building at 701 E. James Lee Blvd., since 2017. He is the church’s third pastor following David Young and Ryan Alford.

In the old hymn, Blessed Assurance, there is a line that says, “Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine. Oh what a foretaste of glory divine.”

Sunday night’s Crestview Thanksgiving Celebration was such a foretaste of glory divine.

The Holiday season kicked off in Laurel Hill on Wednesday with the Laurel Hill Harvest Supper at First Baptist Church of Laurel Hill.

The Crestview community is invited to join others from around the area for a Community Thanksgiving Service on Sunday, Nov. 20 at 6 p.m.

The service will be held at Woodlawn Baptist Church in Crestview, and childcare will be available to children up to age four.

Organized in 1992 in Valparaiso, Crossway Community Church has been meeting in Crestview since 2009.

The church was a portable church for several years before moving into a permanent building at 298 Wilson St. North two years ago. Worship is Sunday morning at 10 a.m.

God is at work in Honduras.

If you have any doubt, ask the seven people from First Baptist Church of Crestview that went on a mission trip there from Sept. 24-Oct. 1 of this year.

Jim Vail’s office at First Baptist Church of Baker is filled with bookshelves of Bibles and books on theology.

It is in this office that he spends much of his time preparing sermons to feed the flock that is the membership of First Baptist Church.

A church can be many things to many people. It should be a place of growing closer to God as well as building friendships that will be anchors in the storms of life.

Paul Mixon, pastor of Central Baptist Church in Crestview, believes his church embraces those qualities.
When asked why someone might want to join Central, community is the first thing he mentioned.