A Free Will Baptist church on Power Road since 1987.
We are Free Will Baptist. We read the King James Bible aloud, we preach through it verse by verse, and we sing hymns from a hymnal — Sunday morning, Sunday evening, and Wednesday night.
East Valley Church gathers about seventy-five minutes for Sunday worship, with Sunday School at 9:30 a.m. and the morning service at 10:30. Wednesday nights bring the adults together for prayer and Bible study while AWANA meets in the same building for kids in kindergarten through sixth grade. There is a teen ministry, a ladies' fellowship, a men's fellowship, a Spanish-language congregation, a bus that picks neighbors up for Sunday School, and a summer Vacation Bible School that has been on the calendar more years than most members can count. The pastor still answers the phone.
Doctrine in four lines, the way Pastor Cash would say it from the pulpit.
01 — Free Will Baptist. We hold to the historic Free Will Baptist position on salvation, baptism, and the local church. It shapes how we preach, who we partner with in missions, and how the congregation is governed.
02 — King James Bible. The King James Version is the Bible we read aloud in the service and the Bible you will hear preached from the pulpit every week. Bring any translation you like; you will be able to follow along.
03 — Verse-by-verse preaching. We work through books of the Bible a passage at a time. We do not skip the hard chapters and we do not chase topical series. The text sets the agenda.
04 — Hymns from a hymnal. No band, no screens for lyrics. The hymnals are in the pew rack in front of you, and someone next to you will help you find the page.
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. — 2 Timothy 3:16, KJV
Neighborhood pastor on Power Road. The phone number below is his office line — call it.
Pastor Mike has led East Valley Church through its quiet, steady years on Power Road. His preaching is verse by verse through whatever book the church is currently working through, and his door is open to anyone — visitor, member, or neighbor — who wants to talk through Scripture, a hard week, or a first visit on Sunday.
The fastest way to reach Pastor Mike is the church office line at (480) 807-4242, or by email at pastormikecash@gmail.com. If you are planning a first visit and want someone to meet you in the parking lot on Sunday morning, send a note ahead and he will arrange it.
The church was planted in 1987 by the Gwartney family, who moved from Grandview, Missouri to Mesa as part of the Free Will Baptist Target City home-missions program. Their work in those first years is the reason there is a congregation on this corner thirty-nine years later.
In 1987 the Gwartney family packed up their lives in Grandview, Missouri and drove southwest to Mesa to plant a Free Will Baptist church under the denomination's Target City home-missions program — a deliberate strategy aimed at fast-growing Sun Belt suburbs.
Thirty-nine years later, the congregation they started is still meeting on Power Road. Still singing from a hymnal. Still preaching verse by verse from the King James Bible. Still doing the small, unglamorous things that hold a neighborhood church together — a bus that picks kids up for Sunday School, an AWANA club on Wednesday nights, a Spanish-language congregation for neighbors who need it, a summer VBS that comes around every June. It is not a megachurch and never tried to be. It is a thirty-nine-year-old neighborhood church that the Target City project actually worked for.
Sunday, 10:30 a.m. — about 75 minutes — 2160 N Power Rd, Mesa.
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