OUR STORY

Our church is part of the network of Christian Fellowship Ministries, founded by Pastor Wayman Mitchell. In 1970 Pastor Mitchell went to Prescott, Arizona to take a small, struggling congregation. Shortly after arriving, God saved a number of hippies and they welcomed them into the church. God began a marvelous outpouring of conversions and growth in connection with the “Jesus Movement” of the 1970’s. As God revealed His plan for discipleship, churches began to be planted throughout the US, and that lead to church planting and discipleship in many other nations. Pastor Mitchell traveled extensively throughout the world preaching in various conferences, rallies, leadership meetings, discipleship classes and healing crusades until early 2020. Pastor Mitchell finally went home to his reward on September 21st, 2020, and left behind a world-changing move of God. We are blessed to be part of a fellowship knit together with the desire to spread the gospel to the ends of the earth.

The Door Christian Fellowship in Jacksonville, North Carolina was started as a church plant from our mother church in Bullhead City, Arizona in 1986. The Bullhead City church sent a couple with a heart to share the gospel to Marines stationed Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune, and the surrounding local community. Pastor Dave & Vinita Szczepanski assumed leadership of the church in 1992 and have been faithfully serving our church since. Our church first started in a small store front building on Marine Boulevard and later moved into a larger building on Bell Fork Road. As we met at the Bell Fork location our church began to grow and in growing we began to replicate the pattern of our fellowship, Christian Fellowship Ministries, by discipling and planting churches. It was at this location that we also launched and supported our first foreign missionary work into the nation of Russia. As our church continued to grow and experience revival the need for building expansion arose and we took a leap of faith in 2010, purchasing a 32,000 square foot building off Western Blvd where we currently gather and hold services. The building on Western Boulevard afforded the ability for church growth and enabled us to begin hosting International Bible Conferences.   

Our church continues to follow the mandate of Christ, "go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature". As a mother church we have planted and continue to plant stateside church plants and in doing so have become a "grandmother" church as our church plants began to grow and replicate the pattern of our fellowship by planting churches of their own. We have sent and have financially supported missionary works into Russia, Poland, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Cambodia, Kazakhstan and Guyana. Our most recent annual Bible conference announced the launch of our latest mission work into the nation of Indonesia. We anticipate hearing great reports of all that God will do in the nation of Indonesia.

As we continue to follow the Mark 16:15 mandate by planting churches both locally and internationally, we likewise follow Christ's mandate by sharing the gospel to our local community. Our church strives to be a lighthouse in increasingly unstable times and provide a beacon of hope to those who may be lost, lonely and searching for an answer. Our church continually prays for revival and an outpouring of the Holy Spirit in our current generation. We believe for an end time harvest and that we will fill our building to overflowing as souls are saved and brought into the Kingdom of God.