Welcome,

   We invite you to come and share a worship experience with us.  We are located in the Shea Terrace section of Portsmouth about 1/2 mile from I.C. Norcom High School and next to the Midtown tunnel exit on London Blvd.  Enjoy Christian fellowship and grow spiritually closer to God, starting with Sunday School and Morning Worship, then on Tuesday with a morning Bible Study and finally lots of Wednesday night activities starting with Senior Choir, Dinner, Awanas & Youth Ministries and the Adult Bible Study or Adult Choir.  Preschool care is available for Sunday morning and Wednesday night activities.

   Dr. Brian Brooks, pastor and Dr. Harold “Hal” Hostetler, associate pastor, work diligently to provide spiritual guidance to Calvary’s members, visiting guests and residents within the local community.  Come and experience a time of praise as our orchestra and choir lifts your spirit with a mixture of traditional and contemporary praise songs under the guidance of Don Carter, our choir director.  Our children’s sermon is a time for youngsters to hear a special message, interact with the pastor or sing a song that relates to God’s word.  Children’s Church follows the children’s sermon so that parents can enjoy the pastor’s message. 

   Calvary is an Acts 1:8 church.  We believe God has called us to reach out and minister to our local community, within our immediate city, within our state and to the ends of the earth.  We are actively involved working with the homeless and assisting with a local food pantry, ministering to individuals with the Seafarer’s ministry, witnessing and providing bedding & toiletries to migrant worker camps on the Eastern shore and reaching out to other nations by sending mission teams to numerous places abroad.

   God can use all types of vessels to share his word and God is not a respecter of person.  He does not care about your past or look at your age, color, race or sex.  He does not hate the sinner but only the sin.  God’s word states in Romans 3:23, “That all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.”  Our deeds, works and actions will not gain us access into heaven but it is only through the realization that we are all sinners that we can have eternal life.

   John 3:16 states, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him, should not parish but have ever lasting life.”  If you wish to have eternal life, you must believe that you are a sinner and realize that only through the shedding of Christ’s blood can salvation be achieved.

   If you would like to make a decision for salvation or have just done so, please contact the church office and ask to speak with the pastor.  We would be happy to rejoice with you in this experience and provide additional resources or information as needed.

 In Christ’s Love,

Calvary Baptist Church