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Hello! Thank you for your consideration! Time is our greatest investment and we appreciate you for spending time on our website. Please review our testimonies below.

We trust it will provide clear insight on who we are, where we came from and where we are going. I trust it will be a blessing to you and those you share it with!

Sincerest Regards, Your Servants in Christ,
~ Keith & Melissa Drinkard

Keith's Testimony

Melissa's Testimony

I accepted Christ as my Saviour at the young age of eight or nine years old and was baptized shortly thereafter.

Growing up in an independent, fundamental, Baptist home and church was only by God’s grace. It seemed as though I had been saved my entire life, with the exception of seven years of living in complete rebellion to God’s Word. It was during the end of those seven years that I began to question my salvation because there was no evidence of faith in Christ.

At the age of 22, after a revival service with John Van Gelderen, I went to my parents’ house and settled it once and for all. At that time, I received assurance of my salvation making certain of my trust in Christ as my Saviour.

In 2007, God began working on my heart, or I was listening more attentively to God calling me. It was obvious that the Lord was working on both my wife and me about full time Christian service. We were not sure what it would look like, but we both surrendered our will to Him. In 2009, my wife confirmed her salvation in the Lord and was baptized.

In 2011, we moved to South Knollwood Baptist Church. One year later, the Lord, through the church, saw fit that we become even more involved in the ministry. Over the course of two years, my wife and I believed the Lord was speaking to us about surrendering as church planters. In March of 2014, we came to our Pastor about what the Lord was doing and told him we were convicted and called to become church planters. We are thankful for the support of our Pastor and sending church in the call God has on our lives.

In August of 1999, I went to a Christ In Youth (CIY) conference, and a friend showed me in the Bible that we are sinners. I immediately saw my sin and wanted to be saved. My friend began praying for me to be saved. During this time, I attended an evangelical church off and on, but I never felt comfortable there.

In 2001, I met my husband, Keith. While we were dating, he took me to his home church, Calvary Baptist Church, in Valley Falls, Kansas. This church was nothing like the church I had previously attended. There was something very different about this “Baptist Religion”. On July 19, 2009, I received assurance of my salvation and was baptized! I have not had those feelings of doubt since!

One Wednesday evening in the church parking lot, my husband told me the Lord was calling him to preach! The Lord had already been preparing me for this time. Before the Missions Conference of March 2014, Keith told me he wanted to know my thoughts about surrendering to be church planters. Honestly, I was just waiting for him to say something. I knew the Lord had been working him over! I was ecstatic that he had more direction for what the Lord had called him to do. Together we went forward and surrendered our lives for church planting, and I am even more excited today to see how the Lord will use our family!

Services

Worship is the act of loving and responding to God! Through the heart-warming, conservative music and the clear, Bible teaching and preaching in our services, your heart will be inspired to love and to respond to God. Each week, families are strengthened, encouraged, and drawn closer to Him through these special times together. Each service is carefully planned and prayed over so that God may work in your life!

Sundays

Worship 10:00AM
Evening Service 06:00PM

Midweek Service

Thursday 07:00PM

Beliefs

The following comprise the Scriptural beliefs of this church and its members.

We believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be the verbally and plenarily inspired Word of God. The Scriptures are inerrant, infallible and God-breathed and, therefore, are the final authority for faith and life. The sixty-six books of the Old and New Testament are the complete and divine revelation of God to Man. The Scriptures shall be interpreted according to their normal grammatical- historical meaning. The King James Version of the Bible shall be the official and only translation used by the church.
(2 Tim. 3:16-17; 2 Pet. 1:20-21)

We believe in one Triune God, eternally existing in three persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—each coeternal in being, coidentical in nature, coequal in power and glory, and having the same attributes and perfections. (Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 28:19; II Corinthians 13:14; John 14:10, 26)

Jesus Christ
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became man, without ceasing to be God, having been conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary, in order that He might reveal God and redeem sinful men. (Isa. 7:14; 9:6; Luke 1:35; John 1:1-2, 14; 2 Cor. 5:19-21; Gal. 4:4-5; Phil. 2:5-8)

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished our redemption through His death on the cross as a representative, vicarious, substitutionary sacrifice and that our justification is made sure by His literal, physical resurrection from the dead. (Acts 2:18-36; Rom. 3:24-25; Eph. 1:7; 1 Pet. 2:24; 1 Peter 1:3-5)

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ ascended to Heaven and is now exalted at the right hand of God where, as our High Priest, He fulfills the ministry of Representative, Intercessor, and Advocate. (Acts 1:9-10; Rom. 8:34; Heb. 9:24; 7:25; 1 John 2:1-2)

The Holy Spirit
We believe that the Holy Spirit is a person who convicts the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment, and that He is the Supernatural Agent in regeneration, baptizing all believers into the body of Christ, indwelling and sealing them unto the day of redemption. (John 16:8-11; Rom. 8:9; 1 Cor. 12:12-14; 2 Cor. 3:6; Eph. 1:13-14)

We believe that He is the divine Teacher who assists believers to understand and appropriate the Scriptures and that it is the privilege and duty of all the saved to be filled with the Spirit. (Eph. 1:17-18; 5:18; 1 John 2:20, 27)

We believe that God is sovereign in the bestowal of spiritual gifts to every believer. God uniquely uses evangelists, pastors, and teachers to equip believers in the assembly in order that they can do the work of the ministry.
(Rom. 12:3-8; 1 Cor. 12:4-11, 28; Eph. 4:7-12)

We believe that the sign gifts of the Holy Spirit, such as speaking in tongues and the gift of healing, were temporary. Speaking in tongues was never the common or necessary sign of the baptism or filling of the Holy Spirit. Ultimate deliverance of the body from sickness or death awaits the consummation of our salvation in the resurrection, though God frequently chooses to answer the prayers of believers for physical healing. (1 Cor. 1:22; 13:8; 14:21-22)

Salvation
We believe that salvation is the gift of God brought to man by grace and received by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, Whose precious blood was shed on Calvary for the forgiveness of our sins. We believe that all sins, except blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, are forgivable.
(Matt. 12:31-32; John 1:12; Eph. 1:7; 2:8-10; 1 Pet. 1:18-19; 1 John 1:9

Eternal Security & Assurance
We believe that all the redeemed, once saved, are kept by God’s power and are thus secure in Christ forever.
(John 6:37-40; 10:27-30; Rom. 8:1; 38-39; 1 Cor. 1:4-8; 1 Pet. 1:4-5)

We believe that it is the privilege of believers to rejoice in the assurance of their salvation through the testimony of God’s Word, which, however, clearly forbids the use of Christian liberty as an occasion to the flesh.
(Rom. 13:13-14; Gal. 5:13; Titus 2:11-15)

The Christian Life
We believe all Christians should live for Christ and not for themselves. By obedience to the Word of God and daily yielding to the Spirit of God, every believer should mature and be conformed to the image of Christ.
(Romans 12:2; James 1:22-27; 2 Corinthians 5:17; 1 John 2:15-17; Colossians 3:5-10; Ephesians 5:1-7.)

The Church
The Church is a local community of baptized believers unified through faith in Christ. We believe the church began with the calling out of the twelve apostles by Jesus Christ and was empowered on the day of Pentecost. We believe the local church is God’s only institution to carry out His work today. It is committed to the teachings of Christ and obeying all of His commands, and it seeks to bring the Gospel to the world.
(Matthew 16:18-19; 18:15-20; Acts 2:41-47; 5:11-14; 13:1-3; 14:23; 16:5; 20:28; 1 Corinthians 7:17; 9:13-14; 12; Ephesians 1:22-23; 2:19-22; 3:10-12; 5:22-32; Colossians 1:18; 3:15; 1 Timothy 4:14; 1 Peter 5:1-4; Revelation 21:2-3)

The Last Days
We believe in the pre-tribulational Rapture of the church saints, followed by the seven-year Tribulation. We believe in the pre-millennial return of Christ to the earth and His literal rule of one thousand years. Following this one thousand years is the Great White Throne judgment and then the new Heaven and new earth.
(I Corinthians 15:51-58; I Thessalonians 4:13-18; I Thessalonians 5:1-9; Revelation 19-22.)

Giving
We believe that every Christian, as a steward of that portion of God’s wealth entrusted to him, is obligated to support his local church financially. We believe that God has established the tithe as a basis for giving, but that every Christian should also give other offerings sacrificially and cheerfully to the support of the church, the relief of those in need, and the spread of the Gospel. We believe that a Christian relinquishes all rights to direct the use of the tithe or offering once the gift has been made. (Genesis 14:20; Proverbs 3:9-10; Acts 4:34-37; I Corinthians 16:2; II Corinthians 9:6-7; Galatians 6:6; Ephesians 4:28; I Timothy 5:17-18; I John 3:17)

Missions
We believe that God has given the church a great commission to proclaim the Gospel to all nations so that there might be a great multitude from every nation, tribe, ethnic group, and language group who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. As ambassadors of Christ we must use all available means to go to the foreign nations and not wait for them to come to us. (Matt. 28:19-20; Mark 16:15; Luke 24:46-48; John 20:21; Acts 1:8; 2 Cor. 5:20)

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