What to Expect? - Callaway Assemblies of God

Bible Classes For All Ages

Sunday mornings include an hour-long Bible study known as Sunday School or Christian Education. Personalized classes divided by age, grade and interests serve individuals from infants through senior adults.

Child Care

A nursery is provided for infants and toddlers. This loving, comfortable atmosphere helps show children at the earliest ages that church is a good place to be. Child care also frees parents for worship and reduces distractions during services.

Children's Worship

Bible-oriented activities are provided for preschool and elementary-age children. At this level, young children are taught to sing, pray, memorize Scripture and learn important Bible truths. They are instructed and led in worship at their own levels. Our Fort Light Children’s church programs, services and facilities are planned with your child in mind; providing them an exciting way to learn about Jesus Christ and worship Him with their whole hearts. (See our Ministries section for other monthly children’s ministries available.)

Youth Worship Services

Each Wednesday night our Middle School students meet at 7pm and our High School students meet at 8:15pm. Each service is geared for the specific age group with dynamic praise & worship, exciting dramas and creative messages. They’re sure to leave with a different view about God. (See our Ministries section for other monthly youth ministries available.)

Music

Music is a major feature of our worship, before, during and even after the service itself. Instruments range from piano and organ to synthesizers, guitars, saxophones, trumpets and drums.

Whatever the accompaniment; inspired singing is the order of the day. Any given service may include traditional hymns, hand-clapping gospel, contemporary praise and reverent worshipful choruses. The Callaway Sanctuary Choir ministers in both morning services.

Music will include both congregational and special ministries – solos, duets, ensembles, choirs, instrumentals. Callaway Assembly of God makes music more than a performance; it’s the music of worship.

Worship Experience

Our services may include quiet times of waiting in God’s presence, spiritually savoring the sacred atmosphere.

Other times may be vocal as worshippers are invited to worship with love and adoration to God in our praise and worship segment of the services.

In everything, a flow of worship is evident. No sincere worshipper need feel out of place at Callaway Assembly of God. And each expression will blend without disruption into the flow of worship.

Prayer

A special time in the service is devoted to prayer. Needs from inside and outside the church family frequently are made known.

As in the New Testament, specific prayer is offered for the sick. At times, they will be invited forward to be anointed with oil (James 5:13-16) and have the ministers or other believers lay hands on them and pray (Mark 16:18).

Giving

During the service, tithes and offerings will be received. More than a collection to pay church bills, this too is worship.

We believe giving the tithe (the first tenth of income) and offerings declares that God comes first. It recognizes His blessing, expresses faith and seeks His guidance in every matter in life.

The ministries at Callaway Assembly of God are supported solely by free-will giving. However, visitors need not feel obligated to give.

Challenging Messages

The high point of our services comes with the preaching of God’s Word, the Bible, and an invitation for hearers to respond. The messages are fervent, inspiring and practical.

The pastor may close with an invitation for those who need forgiveness in their lives to come forward and accept Christ as Savior. Those who feel a need to re-dedicate their lives to Christ or to pray about other concerns are also invited to come. Believers are encouraged to ask God for the baptism in the Holy Spirit to further empower them for Christian service. Often everyone is invited to come and pray during the altar service.

Deep emotion and excitement may or may not be demonstrated at the altars in a service, but everyone who calls on God in faith receives something.

If you’ve wondered what a Pentecostal service is like, we invite you to observe and experience God’s joy and peace that defy description. And when you visit us, come expecting! Expect a move of God not only in the service, but also in your life. We think you’ll agree that the comfort, help and strength He gives are better experienced than explained.