Community Baptist Church in Bunnell, Florida, is a Baptist congregation at 956 S. Old Dixie Hwy with a distinctive emphasis on Bible teaching and compassionate, practical ministry. It is known for helping people find real hope for real life through verse-by-verse instruction, wholehearted worship, biblical counseling, addiction recovery, an onsite food pantry, and ministries for children, students, adults, and families.
A Sunday Built Around Fellowship, Study, and Worship
Sunday has a clear rhythm at Community: Bible fellowship groups gather before the main worship service, while additional meetings continue throughout the week.
- Sunday at 9:00 AM: Bible Fellowship Groups for all ages.
- Sunday at 10:30 AM: Worship Service.
- Wednesday at 6:00 PM: Prayer time in the S-15 classroom.
- Wednesday at 6:30 PM: Children's Adventure Club and youth ministry meet together.
- Wednesday at 6:45 PM: Adult Bible Study.
The Sunday groups include men's, women's, adult couples, and young adult classes, with separate children's teaching beginning earlier in the morning. At 10:30 AM, the congregation gathers for worship, and only Sunday worship services are broadcast live through the church's Sunday worship livestream.
A Service That Teaches and Exalts Christ
The Sunday service consists of prayer, Scripture reading, music, teaching, the Lord's Supper, and announcements. The pastors generally teach verse by verse, explaining what the Bible says and showing how it applies to everyday life. Music is intended to exalt Jesus Christ with wholehearted passion, and the congregation sings a blend of contemporary and classic songs.
Visitors are welcome in whatever clothing is comfortable for a casual social setting. The range can include shorts and a T-shirt, collared shirts, or suit coats, because the church emphasizes a person's heart rather than outward appearance.
The welcome is intentionally low-pressure. No one asks a visitor to stand or introduce himself or herself to the congregation, although people nearby will likely offer a greeting. Visitors also are not asked to give money. Tithes and offerings may be given online or placed in the offering box, but giving is not an expectation for guests.
Adventure Club Makes Family Learning a Shared Practice
Children's Ministry partners with parents to introduce children to Jesus Christ and the hope of the gospel. The ministry serves newborns through age 12, with a nursery for newborns through age 4 and additional teaching for older children. The nursery is available during Sunday worship, is staffed on Wednesday evenings, and follows secure check-in and pickup procedures.
Answers in Genesis Sunday School runs from 8:45 to 10:15 AM on Sundays. During Adventure Club on Wednesdays from 6:30 to 8:00 PM, children ages three to twelve study the truth of God's Word through Bible memorization and teaching designed to be both fun and meaningful.
Safety is central to the children's program. All volunteers are background checked and trained in child care, and only authorized individuals may pick up children. Families check in at the nursery or children's desk, provide a cell number and any care instructions, and use a secure release process. Nursery families also provide a diaper bag and special instructions, while older children receive name tags and store toys in labeled cubbies. Children who are ill are encouraged to remain at home until they feel better.
Adventure Club uses one unified weekly lesson for each family, centered on a shared truth, memory verse, and theological application. Kids Books help parents and children continue the same lesson throughout the week. The curriculum follows a nine-year cycle that moves through nine points of systematic theology in three years, then introduces the material again at a deeper level as children move into new age groups.
Emerge Student Ministry Centers on the Word and the Gospel
Emerge Student Ministry serves middle and high school students. Its stated aim is to give young people a firm foundation in God's inerrant Word and the life-transforming gospel of Jesus Christ. The group emphasizes authentic faith, meaningful relationships, encouragement, fun, and the church's mission of making disciples.
Students gather on Sunday at 9:00 AM and Wednesday at 6:30 PM. The ministry's welcome to students also reflects the charge in 1 Timothy 4:12 to show an example in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity rather than looking down on youthfulness.
Freedom on Tuesday Nights
Overcoming Addictions in Christ is a nonresidential, biblically based recovery ministry for people facing life-controlling issues. Its scope includes alcohol and drug addiction as well as struggles with food, pornography, gambling, sex, self-harm, sugar, and other harmful dependencies.
The program follows a 12-week semester, with weekly meetings from 7:00 to 8:30 PM on Tuesdays in the Fellowship Hall. There is no charge, all materials are provided free of cost, and a person may begin during any part of the semester. Meetings combine encouragement, biblical teaching, interactive small-group discussion, personal testimony, and the support of friends. The curriculum was written by Pastor Andrew.
The ministry's approach is both instructional and relational. Participants learn a biblical response to addiction while discussing how to apply it in daily life and hearing how people are experiencing freedom and healing through Jesus Christ.
Sexual Integrity with Compassion and Biblical Truth
Community Baptist Church's sexual integrity teaching begins with the dignity and purpose of every person. It describes sexuality as a good gift from God and teaches that sexual expression is designed for the covenant of marriage between one man and one woman. At the same time, the church emphasizes that people with past or present struggles are deeply loved, welcomed into God's grace, and able to receive forgiveness, healing, and restoration through Jesus Christ.
The church describes its posture as holding biblical truth firmly without approaching people with condemnation. Its goals include purity in thoughts and actions, faithfulness in relationships, self-control through the Holy Spirit, and accountability within a supportive Christian community. These teachings are offered to people who are single, married, or facing difficult circumstances.
Biblical Counseling Anchors Care in Scripture
Community Counseling offers individualized, compassionate care for personal, family, and spiritual challenges. Rather than grounding its answers in human wisdom or psychological theory, the ministry anchors its approach in Scripture, which it regards as inerrant, authoritative, and sufficient for every area of life.
A trained counselor takes unhurried time to understand a person's circumstances, opens the Scriptures with that person, and helps identify concrete steps for applying biblical truth. The counseling process addresses hardship from two directions: wounds caused by the sins and failures of others, and troublesome sinful patterns within the individual.
Honesty and grace shape that process. Counselors seek to bring confidence, freedom, clarity, peace, and joy while helping people know Christ more deeply, love him more fully, and serve him and others more faithfully. Community Counseling's team includes pastors, ministry leaders, and staff counselors trained in biblical counseling principles.
An Onsite Food Pantry and Mission That Reaches Further
The church maintains an onsite food pantry to assist anyone who needs food. Its local ministry also brings practical support to people in Bunnell and around Flagler County through children's ministries, support for the Alpha Pregnancy Center, weekly addiction recovery meetings, and other forms of assistance.
At the state and national levels, Community Baptist Church is involved in church planting and revitalization, disaster relief, and evangelism. It participates directly and through partnerships with the Florida Baptist Convention and the North American Mission Board.
Its global work includes partnership with the International Mission Board to share the gospel around the world, along with direct involvement in Lithuania. These ministries connect the church's teaching and discipleship with service that extends beyond Bunnell.
Groups for Every Season of Life
Bible Fellowship Groups meet at 9:00 AM on Sundays and are described as a foundational way for people to grow in faith, develop Christian relationships, make friends, and grow in Christ through Bible teaching. Several groups meet throughout the morning:
- Men's Bible Fellowship Group: Meets in the main building at 9:00 AM.
- Women's Bible Fellowship Group: Meets in the Fellowship Hall at 9:00 AM.
- Adult Couples Bible Fellowship Group: Serves married or engaged couples and meets in S-15 at 9:00 AM.
- Young Adults: A group for people ages 18 to 30 meets in the Fellowship Hall at 9:00 AM.
Women of Grace meets on the first Monday of each month at 6:45 PM in the Fellowship Hall for fellowship, encouragement, and Bible study. Wednesday adult Bible study begins at 6:45 PM, following the 6:00 PM prayer gathering. Together, these gatherings place Bible study, prayer, relationships, and encouragement within the church's mission to know, love, and serve Jesus Christ and the people around them.
A Faith Set Apart in Bible and Practice
Community describes itself as a remnant church that holds fast to Old and New Testament principles without compromising its beliefs to become more politically correct or palatable. Its statement of faith is grounded in the Bible, which it teaches is God's revelation, divinely inspired, inerrant, and infallible in the original documents. It uses literal, grammatical, and historical interpretation, believing that each passage has one intended meaning. The statement also affirms the literal six-day creation, humanity as male and female in God's image, marriage as a covenant, and sexual activity as belonging only within marriage.
The church teaches one true and eternal God who is perfect in all His attributes, and it affirms the Trinity of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ is affirmed as fully divine and fully human, born of the virgin Mary. His sacrificial death is described as substitutionary and redemptive, his resurrection as literal and physical, and his return as future. He is named as the mediator between God and humanity, the head of the church, and the final judge.
Humanity is taught to have been created free of sin with intelligence, will, moral responsibility, and the purpose of glorifying God and enjoying fellowship with him. Because of Adam's disobedience, people are morally corrupt and unable to recover through their own power. Salvation is therefore wholly of God's grace through the redemption of Jesus Christ, not a result of human works. Regeneration is the supernatural work of the Holy Spirit, justification is God's act of declaring those who believe in Christ righteous, and sanctification is both positional and progressive. Genuine faith is expressed through good works that are the evidence and fruit of regeneration.
The Holy Spirit is affirmed as the one who convicts of sin, regenerates, indwells, sanctifies, instructs, empowers, and administers spiritual gifts for the edification of believers. The church understands miraculous sign gifts as belonging to the apostolic era, while ministry gifts continue to equip believers. The church began at Pentecost, is headed by Christ, and is served locally by elders and deacons who meet biblical qualifications. Community Baptist Church affirms the autonomy of the local church, mutual accountability, and biblical discipline.
Baptism by immersion and the Lord's Supper are the two ordinances entrusted to the church. The statement also emphasizes separation from apostasy and sinful practices, a call to holiness, the personal bodily return of Christ, a seven-year tribulation, a millennial reign, final judgment, and the new heaven and new earth.
A Welcome Without Pressure
People who attend Community Baptist Church are described as welcomed, loved, and encouraged. Greeters wearing name badges are available to answer questions, while Bible Fellowship Groups provide a natural way to build relationships and continue growing. The church welcomes people from every background and belief, including those searching for answers and Christians seeking to grow in faith, make friends, and serve.
Giving is available through the church's secure online form or by texting a gift. Community Baptist Church is a tax-exempt organization under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3), and donors receive written acknowledgment for contributions of $250 or more. No goods or services are provided in exchange for donations unless otherwise noted.
Community Baptist Church's threefold calling - Love God, Love People, Make Disciples - connects its worship, biblical instruction, family ministries, recovery care, counseling, food pantry, and mission work. At 956 S. Old Dixie Hwy in Bunnell, this Baptist congregation remains centered on helping people find real hope for real life through faith in Jesus Christ.