Sunday School
All-ages classes at 9:30 a.m., feeding into the 10:30 a.m. service.
About
What we believe
Free Will Baptist. Expository preaching. The same corner of Power Road in Mesa since 1987.
Pastor
Mike Cash
Pastor Mike preaches verse by verse, a passage at a time, the way Free Will Baptists have done it here since the church was planted.
He answers his own phone at (480) 807-4242 — call him with a question, a prayer request, or just to ask what's being preached this Sunday. If you'd rather email, he's at pastormikecash@gmail.com.
What we believe
Plainly stated
We're a Free Will Baptist congregation. Here's what that means in ordinary words, one belief at a time.
Scripture
The Bible is the written Word of God — sufficient for faith, sufficient for life, and the final authority for what we teach and how we live.
The Trinity
One God, eternally existing as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — three Persons of one substance.
Salvation by grace through faith
We are saved by the grace of God, through faith in Jesus Christ — His life, death, and resurrection — and not by anything we earn or perform.
The church and the ordinances
The local church gathers to worship, hear the Word preached, and practice the two ordinances Christ gave: believer's baptism by immersion and the Lord's Supper.
The Christian life
Saved people grow — through Scripture, prayer, the gathered church, and the long, ordinary work of following Jesus together.
The return of Christ
Jesus is coming again, personally and visibly, to judge the living and the dead and to gather His people to Himself.
In our own words
We sing the old hymns and preach the Bible, a passage at a time.
— East Valley Church, Mesa
Sunday Morning Worship
10:30 a.m. — hymns from the hymnal, Scripture read aloud, and expository preaching. Usually about 75 minutes.
Sunday Evening Service
6:00 p.m. — a quieter second gathering on Sunday evenings.
Wednesday Prayer & Bible Study
7:00 p.m. — adults gather midweek for prayer and verse-by-verse study.
AWANA Clubs
Wednesdays, 6:30–8:00 p.m. — Scripture-memory program for kids in K through 6th grade.
Ministerio en Español
Tenemos un ministerio en español. A Spanish-language ministry for Spanish-speaking neighbors and families.
In 1987, the Gwartney family packed up their lives in Grandview, Missouri and drove southwest to Mesa with a denominational assignment in hand: plant a Free Will Baptist church in the East Valley.
It was part of Home Missions' Target City project — pick a metro, send a family, start from zero. Thirty-nine years later, that plant still meets on Power Road on the far edge of Mesa, now under Pastor Mike Cash. Still small. Still hymn-singing. Still running AWANA on Wednesday nights. Somewhere along the way a Spanish-language ministry took root alongside the English service, and a neighborhood church outlasted the strategy that started it.
Our story
Planted in 1987. Same corner ever since.
Sunday, 10:30 a.m. We'll save you a seat.
2160 N Power Rd, Mesa. Park anywhere, walk in the front doors, and someone will point you toward the nursery if you've got little ones.
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