About Our Church
Calvary Church Fernandina Beach is a new church plant birthed out of Calvary Chapel West Jacksonville.
What began as a small Bible study in a living room, the Lord has faithfully grown into a vibrant new fellowship.
Our mission is simple yet eternal: to glorify Jesus Christ, equip the saints, and make disciples — right here in our community, across our region, and to the ends of the earth.
“And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.” – Acts 2:42
About Our Pastor
Patrick came to saving faith in Jesus Christ in 2012 after hearing the Gospel through a YouTube video. That same night, alone in his room, he called on the Lord and was born again. Since that powerful encounter, his heart has burned with a passion to glorify Jesus, reach the lost with the Gospel, and to make disciples.
Ordained and sent out by Calvary Chapel West Jacksonville, Patrick has faithfully served as a church elder, teaching apologetics and theology classes, and teaching The Word verse by verse. He now leads Calvary Church Fernandina Beach with a desire to teach the Bible simply and clearly, just as he was taught.
Patrick and his wife are raising their four children in Yulee, Florida.
What We Believe
Calvary Church Fernandina Beach affirms the essential doctrines of the the Christian faith, and holds to the Calvary Chapel distinctives.
We believe in one God, Who is without beginning and without end. The fullness of God is in the Triune Godhead, three separate coequal persons: The Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit. (John 14) (Gen 1:26)
Jesus is fully God, has always existed, and created all things (John 1). Jesus entered His creation, was born of a virgin, and lived a perfect and sinless life (Phil 2:6-7, Heb 4:15). He was crucified, died and was buried. On the third day, He miraculously rose from the dead (1 Cor 15:3-8). He is now seated at the right hand of The Father, interceding the Church (1 Peter 3:22)
The Holy Sprit is fully God, the third member of the triune Godhead (Acts 5:4). The Holy Spirit’s ministry on the earth is to come alongside all people, convict of sin, and point them to Jesus. In the life of the believer, The Holy Spirit indwells, convicts, gives understanding of Scripture, and reforms the believer’s heart. (John 16:5-11) We hold that the gifts of the Holy Spirit are continued today, exercised in the guidelines of Scripture.
Jesus is the only way to salvation. We are saved by grace through faith in Jesus alone, apart from works. (Ephesians 2:8-9) Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the father except through Him (John 14:6). Apart from Jesus, there is no salvation. (John 3:18)
We believe God created His creation in six literal days, and apart from God, nothing has been made (Gen 1, John 1). On the 6th day, God created humans, male and female, in His image (Gen 1). All human life is scared and begins at conception (Psalm 139).
In the Garden of Eden, man sinned and the result of sin was death and the curse of the creation (Gen 3). All people inherit the sin nature of our ancestors, all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are hopeless apart from redemption in Jesus. (Romans 3:23, 3:10)
The Church is the universal body of believers in Jesus, made up of all who truly repent and believe in Jesus for salvation, resulting in the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. These Jesus followers are known by their love for one another (John 13:35). Believers in a functional church will hold to the apostle’s teaching, to fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and to prayer (Acts 2:42). Born again believers in Jesus in the church acknowledge that Jesus is the chief cornerstone (Ephesians 2:20) and the head of the Body of Christ (Col 1:18)
We affirm that God is loving and gracious, and He is also just (Psalm 89:14). In His perfect justice, He will judge the living and the dead (2 Timothy 4:1). Scripture teaches two eternal destinations: a literal heaven, and a literal hell. We can enter heaven by God’s grace through His Son Jesus. If we reject the Son, we enter Hell through judgment of our sins (1 John 5:12)