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Calvary Baptist Church, McMinnville, Tennessee

About Us

Our Vision for the Future

The work continues. What began as drive-in services in a bare field has become a Tabernacle, a finished church house, and a congregation half again the size it was.

He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Philippians 1:6

2020

Drive-in services

During the two years of covid, the new property at 610 Myers Lane became a valuable asset. We initiated drive-in services, meeting in the field with the radio on.

Cars parked along the drive at 610 Myers Lane during a service

2020 – 2021

Open-air services

Drive-in services turned into open-air services under the pavilion. We are grateful to God that souls were saved during this time, and the church grew by fifty percent.

Folding chairs set out under the timber-framed pavilion for an open-air service

Summer 2021

Soon we needed walls

With the need for an enclosed building on the new property, we began a renovation that would turn the open-air pavilion into an enclosed Tabernacle. The men of the church did the framing themselves.

The pavilion mid-renovation, newly framed stud walls open to the weather under the finished roof

Fall 2021

Men at work

Week by week the walls went up, the fellowship hall took shape, and a patio with room for a hundred and twenty was poured.

Church members working inside the framed shell of the Tabernacle

December 2021

The Tabernacle

The work on the Tabernacle was completed by the first week of December 2021, and the congregation moved in in time for the Christmas season.

The finished Tabernacle, board-and-batten with a standing-seam roof and a covered porch

2022

Breaking ground

Ground was broken for a church house on the same nineteen acres — the congregation standing in the field with gold shovels, heads bowed, on a fall morning.

Congregation members with gold shovels, heads bowed in prayer at the groundbreaking

2026

A church house on that field

The new building stands finished where we once held drive-in services: a sanctuary with a steeple, arched windows down both sides, classrooms, and a covered drop-off. Nine years from bare pasture to this.

The finished Calvary Baptist Church building — stone gable end, arched windows, and a white steeple

What's next

The building is finished. The work is not.

God gave us the acres, then the pavilion, then the Tabernacle, then the church house. What He has not finished is the reason any of it went up — the families in Warren County who have not yet heard the gospel. Come and be part of that.
The finished church building from the air, with the paved drive, the workshop, and the Tabernacle behind it