Thank you for your interest in pastoring at Calvary in Ozark. As a way of introduction we would like to share a little about us as well as the doctrine we hold as true. If you would like to send us information about yourself, we prefer to correspond via email. We have included a link below.
Calvary Baptist Church was founded on March 11, 1956 as a church plant from Landmark Missionary Baptist Church in Clarksville, Arkansas. She has had a history of long-term pastors, the latest, Coyce Couch, serving for over 20 years. Coyce battled cancer for several years and passed away in November 2021. During his time of ill health, Calvary's pulpit was filled internally with three primary speakers who continue to do so today.
Calvary Baptist Church supports several missionaries and missional organizations far and near. Helping others spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ is a high priority.
Calvary Christian Academy and Preschool: Our largest outreach is our school. Since 1982 we have served our community with child care, recently expanding from birth to 12th grade. Our school employs over 20 workers and maintains approximately 100 students.
AWANA Clubs: Calvary was among the first churches in the state of Arkansas to utilize AWANA Clubs for its children's ministry.
The Bridge: Calvary offers a weekly recovery program for people struggling with all kinds of addictions and those who are trying to make life changes.
BOSS: Breakfast on Second Saturdays is Calvary's men's outreach. It often includes service projects on campus as well as in the community.
Ladies Auxilary: Many ladies at Calvary serve in this thriving ministry. Operation Christmas Child is one of its big yearly projects.
VBS: Each summer Calvary ministers to the kids in our community with a themed week-long outreach.
The oldest of Calvary's facilities is our Sanctuary which was built in 1981. Our 20000 square foot Activities Building is well used by our school, Sunday School, Youth ministry, and fellowships. The newest addition is our Office/educational building, which was put in service March 2020. The church saved funds and built debt free and maintain that position today.
Calvary currently has a full time secretary, a full time school director, a part time music minister, and a part time youth pastor. Fill in preachers are paid per sermon.
Calvary Baptist Church is affiliated with the American Baptist Association. You can view our doctrinal statement below.
DOCTRINAL STATEMENT OF THE
AMERICAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION
1. We believe that love one for another as Jesus loves the believer manifests our discipleship, proves our love
for God and symbolizes our authority as New Testament churches. Love is therefore the great commandment
of the LORD Jesus Christ upon which all others are dependent
(Matt. 22:35-40; John 13:34, 35; John 15:12; 1 John 4:7-21; 1 John 5:1-3; Rev. 2:4, 5).
2. We believe in the infallible, verbal inspiration of the whole Bible and that the Bible is the all-sufficient rule
of faith and practice (Psalm 119:160; 2 Tim. 3:16, 17).
3. We believe in the personal triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, equal in divine perfection (Matt. 28:19).
4. We believe in the Genesis account of Creation (Gen. 1; 2).
5. We believe that Satan is a fallen angel, the archenemy of God and man, the unholy god of this world, and
that his destiny is the eternal lake of fire
(Isa. 14:12-15; Ezek. 28:11-19; Matt. 25:41; 2 Cor. 4:4; Eph. 6:10-17; Rev. 20:10).
6. We believe in the virgin birth and sinless humanity of Jesus Christ (Matt. 1:18-20; 2 Cor. 5:21; 1 Peter 2:22).
7. We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ (John 10:30; John 1:1, 14; 2 Cor. 5:19).
8. We believe the Holy Spirit is the divine Administrator for Jesus Christ in His churches
(Luke 24:49; John 14:16, 17; Acts 1:4, 5, 8; Acts 2:1-4).
9. We believe that miraculous spiritual manifestation gifts were done away when the Bible was completed.
Faith, Hope and Love are the vital abiding Spiritual Gifts (1 Cor. chapters 12-14).
10. We believe that Man was created in the image of God and lived in innocency until he fell by voluntary
transgression from his sinless state, the result being that all mankind are sinners
(Gen. 1:26; Gen. 3:6-24; Rom. 5:12, 19).
11. We believe that the suffering and death of Jesus Christ was substitutionary for all mankind and is
efficacious only to those who believe (Isa. 53:6; Heb. 2:9; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 Peter 3:18; 2 Peter 3:9; 1 John 2:2).
12. We believe in the bodily resurrection and ascension of Christ and the bodily resurrection of His saints
(Matt. 28:1-7; Acts 1:9-11; 1 Cor. 15:42-58; 1 Thess. 4:13-18).
13. We believe in the premillennial, personal, bodily return of Christ as the crowning event of the Gentile age.
This event will include the resurrection of the righteous to eternal heaven, and the Millennium will be followed
by the resurrection of the unrighteous unto eternal punishment in the lake of fire and that the righteous shall
enter into the heaven age
(John 14:1-6; 1 Thess. 4:13-18; 2 Thess. 2:8; Rev. 19; Rev. 20:4-6; Rev. 20:11-15; Rev. 21:8).
14. We believe that the depraved sinner is saved wholly by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, and the
requisites to regeneration are repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ (Luke 13:3-5; John
3:16-18; Acts 20:21; Rom. 6:23; Eph. 2:8, 9), and that the Holy Spirit convicts sinners, regenerates, seals,
secures, and indwells every believer
(John 3:6; John 16:8, 9; Rom. 8:9-11; 1 Cor. 6:19, 20; Eph. 4:30; Titus 3:5).
15. We believe that all who trust Jesus Christ for salvation are eternally secure in Him and shall not perish
(John 3:36; John 5:24; John 10:27-30; Rom. 8:35-39; Heb. 10:39; 1 Peter 1:5).
16. We believe that God deals with believers as His children, that He chastises the disobedient, and that He
rewards the obedient (Matt. 16:27; Matt. 25:14-23; John 1:12; Heb. 12:5-11; 2 John 8; Rev. 22:12).
17. We believe that Jesus Christ established His church during His ministry on earth and that it is always a
local, visible assembly of scripturally baptized believers in covenant relationship to carry out the Commission
of the Lord Jesus Christ, and each church is an independent, self-governing body, and no other ecclesiastical
body may exercise authority over it. We believe that Jesus Christ gave the Great Commission to the New
Testament churches only, and that He promised the perpetuity of His churches
(Matt. 4:18-22; Matt. 16:18; Matt. 28:19, 20; Mark 1:14-20; John 1:35-51; Eph. 3:21).
18. We believe that there are two pictorial ordinances in the Lord's churches: Baptism and the Lord's Supper.
Scriptural baptism is the immersion of penitent believers in water, administered by the authority of a New
Testament church in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Lord's Supper is a memorial ordinance,
restricted to the members of the church observing the ordinance
(Matt. 28:19, 20; Acts 8:12, 38; Rom. 6:4; 1 Cor. 5:11-13; 1 Cor. 11:1, 2, 17-20, 26).
19. We believe that there are two divinely appointed offices in a church, pastors and deacons, to be filled by
men whose qualifications are set forth in Titus and 1 Timothy.
20. We believe that all associations, fellowships, and committees are, and properly should be, servants of, and
under control of the churches (Matt. 20:25-28).
21. We believe in freedom of worship without interference from the government and affirm our belief in civil
obedience, unless the laws and regulations of civil government run contrary to the Holy Scriptures
(Rom. 13:1-7; 1 Peter 2:13-15).
22. We believe the Bible definition of marriage is the union between a man and a woman
(Gen. 2:21-24; Matt. 19:4-6; Mark 10:6-9; 1 Cor. 7:2-4; Eph. 5:22-31).
23. We believe God designates each individual their gender. God ordained two genders, male and female.
Mankind does not possess the authority to identify themselves differently than their biological sex assigned by
God, and any attempt to alter one’s gender is sin (Genesis 1:27; 5:2; Matthew 19:4 and Mark 10:6; Job 40:8;
Jeremiah 13:23)