At 5124 Camp Robinson Rd. in North Little Rock, Levy Church of Christ is known for a mission that reaches well beyond a single service or program: “Building a Strong Family for the Glory of God.” The church also maintains River City Ministries at 1021 Washington in North Little Rock, extending its emphasis on evangelism into the city. Levy’s identity is built around worship, shared study, service across generations, and support for missionaries.
That family emphasis shapes the week. Sunday classes for every age lead into morning and evening worship, while Tuesday and Wednesday gatherings provide dedicated groups for men, women, young adults, and children. Youth leaders, children’s teachers, women’s ministry leaders, and an eleven-member elder team share the work. A first-time guest can find a worship gathering, while families and students also have places to learn, belong, and serve.
A Strong Family for the Glory of God
Levy states its mission as “Building a Strong Family for the Glory of God,” then explains that mission through four commitments. Each commitment pairs love and service with a distinct part of life shaped by faith.
- Loving and serving the Lord wholly and completely, with Mark 12:28-30 as its reference.
- Loving and serving marriages and families, drawing from Ephesians 5:21-6:4.
- Loving and serving the spiritual family, Christ’s church, with references to Ephesians 3:15, Ephesians 4:11-13, and Colossians 1:28-29.
- Loving and serving the community and the world, with Mark 12:31, Matthew 28:18-20, and 2 Corinthians 5:14-6:1 included.
The ministries carry out that mission through three supporting pillars. Family ministries address the physical and spiritual needs of families at every stage of life. Body Life ministries develop members for greater service to God and meet the church’s daily operational needs. Evangelism ministries focus on reaching the community and a lost world with the good news of Jesus Christ. This structure explains why worship, classes, leadership development, practical care, missions, and outreach all belong to the same central purpose.
Levy describes itself as part of the fellowship of the churches of Christ and as committed to simple, genuine Christianity based on the grace-filled, life-giving principles and teaching of the New Testament. Its members seek to live through the grace and mercy found in Jesus Christ, believing that relationship with him brings both the promise of eternal life and an abundant life. That faith is expressed in assemblies centered on preaching, teaching, singing, prayer, the Lord’s Supper, and fellowship.
The worship language is equally specific: Levy seeks to worship the Father in heaven and his Son, Jesus Christ, “in the Spirit and in Truth.” Sunday worship honors God for the gift of his Son through songs, prayers, weekly communion, an offering, and a special focus on his Word. These are not separate emphases but the shared center of the church’s family life, study, and service.
Sunday at Levy: Bible Classes, Worship, and Evening Fellowship
Sunday begins with Bible classes for all ages at 9:00 a.m. The schedule includes classes for children alongside groups for adults, young adults, parents, and other specialized interests. At 10:00 a.m., the congregation gathers for morning worship, with the service also livestreamed. The day concludes with a 5:00 p.m. evening worship gathering in the auditorium at 5124 Camp Robinson Rd.
Morning worship follows the central practices Levy names in its description of the church: singing, prayer, the weekly Lord’s Supper, giving, and attention to the Word. The teaching emphasis is strong, but so is the expressed desire for warmth. Levy says that “family” is the best word to describe its assemblies and works toward a place where people encounter the Lord through preaching, teaching, singing, prayer, communion, and fellowship. The stated goal is a welcome for people regardless of background or needs.
Evening worship has a somewhat different rhythm. The 5:00 gathering combines a lesson and fellowship in the auditorium and is described as a less-formal setting for getting to know other members. That makes Sunday an extended day of gathering rather than two identical services, with Bible study beginning the morning and conversation and teaching continuing into the evening.
The practical rhythm of Sunday is simple: classes at 9:00, worship at 10:00, and evening worship at 5:00. All three happen at the Camp Robinson Road church, making the central gathering place the anchor for the largest part of Levy’s family calendar.
Bible Study Through the Week
Levy adds several regular studies between Sunday gatherings. Tuesday begins with an 8:00 a.m. men’s Bible class. A ladies’ class also meets Tuesday morning, with participants from a range of ages and childcare available. That class follows the school-year calendar, meeting from September through the end of the school year.
Wednesday begins at 2:00 p.m. with “Wednesday’s Word,” led by Cecil May. At 7:00 p.m., Bible classes for all ages meet again. Adults can take part in praise and worship or study groups with different teachers, while children have dedicated classes of their own. The varied subjects and teachers allow the Wednesday gathering to include both committed Bible students and people approaching the church for the first time.
Sunday’s 9:00 classes are similarly layered. They include a parenting class, a young adult class, a ladies’ class, and other adult groups alongside the complete children’s ministry. The church’s approach to learning is broad rather than limited to one age or format. Adults may study a biblical book, spend time in a small group, focus on a life stage, or join a class led by a different teacher each season.
Small groups add another layer throughout the week. Some are general prayer and Bible-study gatherings, while others are focused on teenagers, students, women, accountability, or shared interests. These groups make room for discussion and relationships that are harder to develop in a large assembly. Levy’s gathering pattern therefore moves from family worship to age-specific learning, then into smaller groups where study becomes more personal.
Children’s Bible Classes, The Bridge, and GAP
Children hold a prominent place at Levy. Every Sunday morning and Wednesday evening, the church offers classes designed to help children grow in the “wisdom and grace of God.” The classes are divided by age and include nursery for children ages zero through two, preschool for ages three through kindergarten, separate groups for first and second grades and third and fourth grades, and classes for fifth- and sixth-grade girls and boys.
For children ages three through kindergarten, Children’s Bible Hour is a special time of song and study during the morning worship hour. This gives younger children a gathering shaped for their age while their families participate in worship. A staffed nursery is available every Sunday during worship, along with training rooms and a separate mother’s nursing room.
Older elementary students have a distinctive area called The Bridge. Fifth- and sixth-graders meet there for Bible classes and activities designed for their age. The fifth- and sixth-grade YAKS, short for Youth Action Kids, build on this through regular activities and events and participation in the quarterly area-wide CHAOS devotional. GAP, which stands for Growing, Achieving, and Preparing, gives boys and girls hands-on leadership experience in a Sunday night setting.
Leadership Training for Christ, a nationwide program, also includes Levy. It is designed for students in grades three through twelve to deepen their faith in Christ, develop future leadership in the church, and learn to serve God and others. The children’s ministry therefore includes both Bible study and structured leadership development, with different options for preschoolers, elementary students, and older youth.
Levy Vacation Bible School is an annual ministry, and other seasonal children’s events are designed for both church families and children in the surrounding community. Children’s Minister Sierra Gustafson leads this work with teachers and helpers. The emphasis is not only on filling a classroom with activities, but on surrounding children with the love of Christ through age-appropriate teaching, songs, relationships, and service.
Levy Youth Group: CORE and a Leadership Team
Levy Youth Group welcomes both members and visitors, including teenagers who are new to church and to faith. The group is described as teenagers seeking God’s kingdom, with regular opportunities to study, belong, and serve. Sunday morning and Wednesday evening classes form the foundation of the youth schedule.
CORE is the youth group’s Sunday night small group. The wider ministry also includes girls’ Bible studies, guys’ accountability groups, a student leadership team, retreats, mission trips, and summer camps. These opportunities give teenagers different ways to investigate the Bible, build friendships, practice faith beyond the classroom, and participate in service.
Student Ministers Jesse Stacy and Rachel Neumeier share leadership of the youth ministry. Their work supports the classes and small groups while helping students move from participation into leadership. Levy’s youth ministry is intentionally broad, combining biblical teaching with mentoring, team responsibilities, mission experiences, and fellowship among students and adults.
Women of All Ages: Learning and Sharing
Levy’s Women’s Ministry officially began in 1990, with the elders approving it to meet needs and provide women’s outreach opportunities. Suzanne Dillard was its first coordinator and helped women identify their gifts for service. The ministry continues that emphasis by creating regular opportunities for spiritual growth, fellowship, and practical care among girls and women of all ages.
The Tuesday morning class welcomes women from a range of ages and includes childcare. It follows the school-year calendar. On Wednesday evening, a ladies’ class offers changing teachers and remains open to women of every age. Women of Courage meets Sunday morning, while Knit Together with Love gathers Wednesday morning in the Ministry Center family room. Quilting is another ministry that meets regularly throughout the year and is open to everyone.
Heartfelt Ministry builds relationships between older women and younger women with the aim of creating opportunities for spiritual growth across generations. Small prayer groups also meet at different times during the week, including a Wednesday group in the Ministry Center family room. These gatherings complement the larger classes with more personal spaces for prayer, conversation, and shared study.
Service is central to the women’s ministry. Comfort Food Ministry provides food when families celebrate a birth, experience a loss, face illness, or have a hospitalization. The Take Two Ministry asks people to cook an extra casserole and bring it to the church freezer; sweet breads are also collected for different occasions. The freezer in the Ministry Center becomes a practical way for the congregation to care for one another.
Baby showers and wedding showers offer another form of service, with coordination and decoration becoming ways for women to use their abilities. The ministry also gathers for an event each quarter and holds an annual retreat called Annual Renewal. The retreat alternates between the Ministry Center and an overnight stay away from the building. Learning, fellowship, hospitality, and service are closely connected throughout the women’s schedule.
Men, Young Adults, and Family Life
Family life has a dedicated ministry leader in Joe Chesser, whose responsibilities include young adults and CEM. The Sunday schedule includes a young adult class and a parenting class, while additional groups meet for specific stages and interests. The Family Life pillar helps families at every stage, and the ministry structure reflects that broad concern rather than treating family formation as a separate program from worship and Bible study.
Men’s Bible study meets Tuesday morning at 8:00. The long-running class format gives men a regular time for focused study and discussion. Other adult classes, including the parenting, young adult, and ladies’ classes, create additional points of entry into church life for adults who may be attending for the first time.
The ministerial team brings together preaching, adult education, hospitality, family life, youth, children, women, and local outreach. Danny Dodd serves as preaching minister. Cecil May III is the connections minister and also leads adult education and hospitality. Jesse Stacy and Rachel Neumeier are youth ministers, Sierra Gustafson is children’s minister, Paula Morse leads the women’s ministry, and Paul Wilkerson ministers through River City while also serving as an elder.
The elder team includes Bill Arnold, Tom Cloninger, Cliff Ferren, Jon Mark Hopper, Mike Howell, Doug Hurst, Barry Josephson, Philip Sherrill, Danny Sullivan, Brad Watson, and Paul Wilkerson. Together with the ministry leaders, they oversee a church whose ministries range from nursery care and children’s classes to adult education, family support, youth leadership, missions, and outreach.
Serving Others at Levy and River City
Service is built into the church’s regular life rather than reserved for occasional projects. The Body Life pillar gives attention to developing each member for service and also meeting daily operational needs. People who want to contribute a talent can submit the church’s Ministry Interest Form without obligation, and the information is sent to the ministry leader best suited to answer questions.
That principle appears in the Women’s Ministry’s food support, baby and wedding showers, teaching opportunities, hospitality, and leadership development. It also appears among children, who make missionary encouragement cards and take part in service activities, and among teenagers, whose mission trips and camps connect their faith with action beyond the church building.
River City Ministries is Levy’s second named location, at 1021 Washington in North Little Rock. Paul Wilkerson leads this ministry, which is associated with spreading God’s kingdom along the streets of Little Rock. Its presence gives Levy a local expression of the Evangelism pillar alongside the church’s mission support across the country and around the world.
Children’s outreach is another local expression. Vacation Bible School and other seasonal events are open not only to children connected with Levy but also to children in the surrounding community. In this way, the church connects its family emphasis with service that reaches beyond existing church families.
A Mission-Minded Congregation
Evangelism at Levy means taking the good news of Jesus Christ to the community and to people who have not yet come to faith. The church’s global mission work supports full-time missionaries and has included short-term student mission trips, campus ministries, inner-city ministries, and mission efforts in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, and South America. The emphasis is broad, but the organizing principle is consistent: help people come to know Christ and grow in their relationship with him.
A Missionary Care Committee builds relationships with supported missionaries through prayer, encouragement, correspondence, care packages, and financial assistance. Pen-pal relationships are one way congregants maintain those connections. Letters and notes of encouragement have been a meaningful part of the church’s missionary support, especially for missionaries serving far from family and home.
Levy’s children join this work too. Beginning in first grade, children sign and pray for missionary children, make cards during Vacation Bible School, and participate in other creative projects. Their encouragement has reached missionary families across many countries. This makes missions a family practice rather than an activity reserved for the missions committee alone.
The church has also maintained a strong commitment to short-term mission experiences for students and to support for ministries in nearby inner-city and college communities. These opportunities connect the worldwide emphasis with local settings, where faith is shared through neighborhood outreach, campus gatherings, and relationships formed while serving others.
Missionary support, local outreach, children’s encouragement, and the River City ministry all reflect the third pillar of Levy’s mission. Evangelism is not a separate edge of church life; it is connected to worship, family formation, leadership development, and service. The church has long been known within the churches of Christ for its generosity toward missionary work, and its missions identity remains one of the clearest ways the Levy family expresses its purpose.
What to Expect on Your First Sunday
A first Sunday at Levy can begin with the 9:00 a.m. Bible classes, followed by worship at 10:00 and evening worship at 5:00. The church explicitly welcomes people who have not attended before and emphasizes a family atmosphere in its assemblies. Adults can choose from several classes, while children enter age-specific groups beginning with nursery.
Families do not need to choose between worship and a place for their children. The children’s ministry offers age-specific classes on Sunday morning and Wednesday evening, Children’s Bible Hour during the morning worship hour, a staffed nursery every Sunday during worship, training rooms, and a mother’s nursing room. These arrangements allow parents to participate in worship while children are taught in ways suited to their age.
Levy’s gatherings are conducted in English. The church’s main address is 5124 Camp Robinson Rd., North Little Rock, AR 72118. The office is open from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday and from 8:00 a.m. to noon Friday. The office telephone number is (501) 753-4860, and office@levychurch.com is the general church address.
Those unable to attend in person can join the broadcasts. The auditorium Bible class is streamed at 9:00 a.m. Sunday, morning worship begins at 10:00 a.m., and the Wednesday auditorium class begins at 7:00 p.m. The live broadcasts also provide access to archived lessons, while older sermons and class lessons are available through Levy’s YouTube channel.
The first Sunday therefore offers several ways to participate: a Bible class before worship, the main worship gathering, the children’s ministry, or the evening lesson and fellowship. The church’s stated aim is simply that visitors feel welcome, find meaningful relationships, and encounter God through the congregation’s worship and teaching.
Sermons, Giving, and Staying Connected
Levy maintains an extensive sermon archive that can be approached by topic, series, Bible book, speaker, or date. The collection includes Sunday worship, midweek classes, and messages from guest speakers. Archived lessons and older sermons are also carried on the church’s YouTube channel, making the teaching ministry available beyond the gathering at Camp Robinson Road.
Giving is offered through online contributions and bank bill pay. For bank payments, the payee is Levy Church of Christ, the mailing address is 5124 Camp Robinson Rd., North Little Rock, AR 72118, and the account name can serve as the account number. One-time payments for events or fees are also available online.
Levy also maintains a Facebook presence, an Instagram account, an X account, and a YouTube channel for church life, ministry communication, worship, and archived teaching. Together with the church’s regular gatherings, these channels keep the people of Levy connected to one another and to the ministries they support.
Levy Church of Christ brings together worship, family life, Bible learning, leadership development, practical care, local outreach, and global missions under one family-centered mission. From children’s Bible classes on Sunday morning to the River City ministry and the encouragement of missionaries across the world, each part is organized to strengthen the family and extend the good news of Jesus Christ.