Calvary Chapel Bremerton
 


Maranatha Christian Academy & Calvary Kids Center


 

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Announcements

Sunday Parking: Cars parked on city streets will be okay until 2:00pm on Sunday

Ministry Opportunities

Children's Ministry: The Children's Ministry is looking for Sunday School teachers. Those interested in serving may contact Cathy Beaudry @ 377-0657

Nursery: Looking for individuals who wish to care infants during the Sunday Morning Service. Call Cathy Beaudry @ 377-0657 for more details

Latest Message

The Great Tribulation

Think On These Things

Matthew 24:15-26

For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 

 

We'll see you there!


Community Outreach Concerts

Calvary Kids Center

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Weekly Events

Below is a listing of the regular services and bible studies in Calvary Chapel Bremerton throughout the week.

Sunday
10:00am Sunday Morning Service Sanctuary
Children's Church Calvary Building
6:00pm Sunday Evening Service Sanctuary
Monday
7:00pm College & Career Group Solomon's Porch
Wednesday
5:00pm High School Group Solomon's Porch
Thursday
6:00pm Dinner Calvary Building
7:00pm Bible Study Sanctuary
Saturday
8:00am Men's Group Bible Study & Prayer Solomon's Porch
 

About Calvary Chapel

The Church On Church Street

Calvary Chapel is a non-denominational Christian church which began in 1965 in Costa Mesa, California. Calvary Chapel's pastor, Chuck Smith became a leading figure in what has become known as the "Jesus Movement."

It has been estimated that in a two-year period in the mid '70s, Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa had performed well over eight thousand baptisms. During that same period, we were instrumental in 20,000 conversions to the Christian faith. Our decadal growth rate had been calculated by church growth experts to be near the ten thousand percent level.

A remarkable pattern kept repeating itself. As soon as we moved into a new building, our fellowship would already be too big for the facilities. In two years we moved from our original building (one of the first church buildings in Costa Mesa) to a rented Lutheran church overlooking the Pacific. Soon thereafter we decided to do something unprecedented at the time and move the church to a school that we had bought. The building did not match up to code so we tore it down and built another. But by the time the sanctuary of 330 seats was completed in 1969, we were already forced to go to two services, and eventually had to use the outside courtyard for 500 more seats. This was all fine in good weather.

But by 1971 the large crowds and the winter rains forced us to move again. We bought a ten-acre tract of land on the Costa Mesa/Santa Ana border. Orange County was quickly changing and the once-famous orange orchards were making way for the exploding population of Los Angeles. Soon after buying the land, we again did the unprecedented and erected a giant circus tent that could seat 1,600 at a stretch. This was soon enlarged to hold 2,000 seats. Meanwhile we began building an enormous sanctuary adjacent to this site.

By the time Calvary Chapel fellowship had celebrated opening day in 1973 moving into the vast new sanctuary of 2,200 seats, the building was already too small to contain the numbers turning out. We held three Sunday morning services and had more than 4,000 people at each one. Many had to sit on the carpeted floor. A large portion of floor space was left without pews so as to provide that option.

Calvary Chapel also ministers over the airwaves, and this must account for many of those who travel long distances to fellowship here. A Nielsen survey indicated that our Sunday morning Calvary Chapel service is the most listened-to program in the area during the entire week. As of 1987, Calvary's outreach has included numerous radio programs, television broadcasts, and the production and distribution of tapes and records. The missions outreach is considerable. Calvary Chapel not only supports Wycliffe Bible Translators, Campus Crusade, Missionary Aviation Fellowship, and other groups, but we donate to Third World needs. We then built a radio station in San Salvador and gave it to the local pastors there. We also gave money to Open Doors to purchase the ship that, in tandem with a barge, delivered one million Bibles to mainland China. Our financial commitment to missions exceeds the local expense budget by over 50%.

Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa - Sanctuary (2007)

Today, Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa, the church which only had twenty-five members, has now established 1327 affiliate Calvary Chapels across the world and is among the world's largest churches with 20,000+ calling it their home church. It is one of the ten largest Protestant churches in the United States.