Community Bible Church: Centering Lives on Jesus in High Point, NC

Three Sunday Mornings on Johnson Street

Community Bible Church gathers three times every Sunday at 4125 Johnson Street in High Point, North Carolina, with services at 8:00, 9:30, and 11:00 in the morning. The 9:30 and 11:00 services run Community:Kids programming for infants through fourth grade, and the 11:00 hour also includes the middle school service for sixth through eighth graders. High school students meet separately on Wednesdays at 7:00 PM. A livestream goes out at 9:00 and 10:30 AM for those who join online.

The church's single sentence for everything it does is: "Centering our whole lives on Jesus as we make disciples wherever we are." From that sentence flow four values: invest in your growth, make room for one more, give it away, and engage with purpose. Community Bible is a member congregation of the Evangelical Free Church of America and holds to the EFCA Statement of Faith.

What a First-Time Visitor Should Know

A Sunday gathering runs about seventy minutes and includes contemporary worship music, biblically grounded teaching, prayer, and time for community. The dress ranges from casual to more formal; the church is clear that what someone wears matters far less than showing up. Visitors are asked to turn on their hazard lights when pulling into the parking lot so the parking team can direct them to reserved spots up front. Inside, a team wearing green "Welcome" shirts answers questions and helps newcomers find their way.

Community:Kids offers a secure check-in the first time a family comes. Parents provide a child's name, date of birth, address, phone number, and any special needs, and that information is kept in the church database. Children and parents receive matching printed name tags plus a matching pick-up tag that must be presented at the door when a child is collected. Every Community:Kids volunteer passes a background check and never serves alone. The kids program reaches infants through fourth grade at 9:30 and 11:00.

Community Students: Middle and High School

Community Students is the church's ministry for rising sixth graders through rising seniors. The middle school group meets during the 11:00 Sunday service in the Community Students Rooms on the Johnson Street campus. The high school group gathers Wednesday nights at 7:00. Both groups are designed to be safe, fun places where teens can fellowship with their peers, worship, join small groups, and grow in the gospel. All student volunteers and small group leaders are background checked and never serve alone.

The student ministry also partners closely with Community:University, a student-led college ministry that reaches the campus of High Point University. Community:University equips students to follow Jesus and make disciples for a lifetime, and CBC supports it through prayer, mentoring, and service opportunities. Two of the church's most recent HPU graduates, Ivy and Sydney, served as leaders in Community:University before stepping into missions residencies of their own.

Groups Built Around the Triad

Community Bible's small-group life centers on what the church calls Centered and Sent Groups, where relationships become disciple-making relationships. Groups meet throughout the Triad and online, and they are open for anyone who wants to find one. Shannon Wilson, the Women's and Groups Director, helps newcomers plug in.

Several standing groups meet on a fixed rhythm:

• Grounded Group is an eight-week Sunday-morning journey through the essentials of the faith, meeting at 11:00 AM at the church with children's programming available for infants through fifth grade.
• 55 Alive Seniors and Friends meets Wednesday mornings for adults 55 and older, with worship, study, and prayer.
• The Well is a women's group that meets Thursday mornings at 9:15 with a children's program for infants through eighth grade.
• Financial Peace University runs on Monday nights as a nine-week course on money, debt, and saving.

Women of Community Bible

The women's ministry at Community Bible is anchored by The Well, a weekly Thursday gathering of women of all ages and stages of life. Each meeting is self-contained, so newcomers can drop in at any point without feeling behind. The fall theme is "Pointing to the Promise: Finding Jesus in All of Scripture," and the ministry describes the gathering as an opportunity to encounter Jesus throughout Scripture. Children's programming for infants through eighth grade runs alongside The Well, allowing mothers to attend while their kids are cared for.

In the evenings, the women's ministry offers a more in-depth Bible study. The fall 2026 study, "Trustworthy," walks through 1 and 2 Kings with Lysa TerKeurst's video curriculum. It meets Thursday nights from 6:30 to 8:00 PM in the Life Center and requires the purchase of a book with video access.

Biblical Counseling

Community Bible's biblical counseling ministry offers lay counselors trained by the Association of Biblical Counselors (ACBC). The ministry exists to bring scriptural counsel to the life issues members and regular attenders face, complementing the church's broader discipleship efforts.

Local Outreach in High Point's Food Deserts

The local mission and outreach ministry focuses on three areas: food insecurity, mental health, and the sanctity of life. The church supports services in what it identifies as High Point's seven food deserts and provides resources to those in need of mental health services. It also supports mothers experiencing unplanned pregnancies. Barb Jackowski serves as Director of Local Outreach.

Two flagship programs animate this work:

Love Your Neighbor (LYN) is a team-based outreach ministry that matches CBC attenders with neighbors who need practical help. Volunteers sign up for sub-teams such as cleaning, encouragement, home organization, meals, yard work, minor repairs, moving, painting, and transportation. When a need arises, LYN sends a text invitation, and volunteers reply only if they are available. Pat Freeman leads LYN.

Growing Together distributes fully prepared grow bags with vegetable seedlings to CBC families each spring. One hundred small home gardens grow across the city during the season; participants water their plants, then return the ripe produce to bins in the church lobby. The harvest is delivered to Helping Hands, a local food pantry. John Ludwig coordinates the program.

The church also points attenders toward a third initiative, Cookies and Conversations, a relational hospitality effort aimed at neighbors in need.

A Network of Global Mission Partners

Community Bible maintains an unusually deep bench of global mission partners, organized into cross-cultural workers, national partners, and partner organizations. The church walks alongside each partner with prayer and financial support.

Among the cross-cultural partners:

• Shannon serves with ReachGlobal, the EFCA's missions arm, building the church among least-reached people groups through evangelism and disciple-making in hard places. Her work is especially focused on poor, sick, displaced, and trafficked individuals and includes a ministry called House on a Rock in Romania.
• The Amayas (Esteban and Bethany) coordinate IBAC (Bible Institute of the Caribbean and Americas) in Mexico and Argentina, training Latin American pastors and church leaders who lack access to formal theological education. The family lives in Querétaro, Mexico.
• Maggie, a CBC-grown missionary, recently launched to Japan with Pioneers and is in language school, preparing to join a small church-planting team in Miyazaki.
• Sarah relocated to serve a vulnerable Muslim people group in one of the world's most climate-inhospitable and religiously-persecuted regions.
• Stewart, the world's first commissioned Virtual Reality Missionary, works with Cru and the Jesus Film Project in Orlando, developing VR tools for reaching the spiritually lost in virtual spaces.
• The Greenes serve with Cru in a remote leadership role that supports Cru team members around the world.
• Karl and Chelsea Hengeveld also serve with Cru: Karl records the Jesus Film into new languages, while Chelsea works with Destino, a Cru ministry reaching Latino and Hispanic students.
• C and C teach English in a majority-Muslim country in the Near East, using everyday relationships to share the gospel.
• Mark and Mona left profitable careers to serve in a Muslim-majority region where Christians face persecution.
• The Wrights serve with a reputable missions organization in a strategic part of a majority-Muslim country, helping lead a local church.
• Dan and Skyler are planting with a partner in Albany, New York.
• Jim and Dana Burchel serve with Crossover Global from Columbia, South Carolina, where Jim directs systems and technology.
• Ivy is raising support to launch to Uman, Ukraine with M4-Ukraine, a movement that plants reproducible churches and serves young adults.
• Sydney is in a two-year missions residency at Mercy Church in Charlotte, NC, discerning her long-term call.

National partners include Idris and Gunay and Musa in Azerbaijan (both with Crossover Global), Nick and Maia with International Partnerships in Ukraine, and Dave and Ese in West Africa. Partner organizations include Crossover Global, First Missionary Church in Kingston (Jamaica), His Hands for Pakistan, IBAC, Pioneers-Ghana, ReachGlobal, and Sonrisas con Esperanza in Costa Rica.

His Hands for Pakistan, led by CBC members David and Safia Burnett, is a 501(c)(3) registered charity that meets physical and spiritual needs in the Punjab region through pioneer evangelism, food distribution, medication assistance, crisis assistance, Sunday school programs, and ransoming people from indentured servitude. One hundred percent of donations to His Hands go directly to ministry expenses.

GO Trips Every Year

Each year, Community Bible sends short-term mission teams to partner with what God is doing through its missionaries and global partners. Trips include:

• Mexico (C:U) in February for college students, partnering with the Amayas and IBAC in Querétaro for evangelism, service projects, VBS, and ministry in an orphanage.
• Western North Carolina relief trips one to two times per year with Baptists on Mission in the greater Asheville area.
• Dominican Republic in late June, partnering with Children of the Nations in Barahona. The team works in villages called Bateys, helping children, building beds, and serving alongside the community.
• Costa Rica in mid-July.
• Jamaica in late July and early August, partnering with First Missionary Church.
• Azerbaijan in July for college students, partnering with the Crossover Global team there.

Pastor Preston and Pastor Kyle lead the DR trip, and Susan Wagner coordinates the trips program. Team sizes and costs vary; the church subsidizes each participant and provides coaching and support with personal fundraising.

Worship Arts and Campus Care

The Worship Arts ministry leads Sunday worship through music, creativity, and technical excellence. Its teams include the worship team, a creative team for photography and design, a baptism team that walks with new believers through the logistics of their public profession of faith, and a production team handling sound, lighting, lyrics, live streaming, and cameras.

Campus Care ministries create the welcoming and hospitable environment visitors experience on Sunday. The First Impressions team greets people, directs parking, and helps seat newcomers. The Connections team is the informational and relational hub for events, registrations, and serving opportunities. The Safety team creates a secure campus during on-campus gatherings. The Food and Fellowship team serves coffee on Sunday mornings and provides food at churchwide events. A Transportation Team runs a bus ministry that brings people to Sunday worship and special events.

What Community Bible Believes

Community Bible holds to the EFCA Statement of Faith as its doctrinal position. The statement affirms one God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), who created all things and purposed to redeem a people for himself. The Bible, both Old and New Testaments, is the verbally inspired Word of God, without error in the original writings, the complete revelation of his will for salvation, and the ultimate authority for faith and life.

The church teaches that human beings, created in God's image, fell into sin through Adam and are sinners by nature and by choice. God saves sinners through Jesus Christ, fully God and fully man, who lived a sinless life, was crucified, rose bodily, ascended to heaven, and sits at the right hand of the Father. The Holy Spirit regenerates sinners, baptizes them into union with Christ, and empowers them for Christ-like living and service. The true church comprises all justified by grace through faith in Christ, and is made visible in local churches whose membership is composed of believers. The church celebrates two ordinances: baptism and the Lord's Supper.

Christian living joins justifying grace with sanctifying power and purpose, calling believers to love God supremely, love others sacrificially, care for the poor, pursue justice, and make disciples among all people. The church looks for the personal, bodily, and glorious return of Jesus Christ, and it believes God will raise the dead, judge the world, and assign the unbeliever to eternal conscious punishment and the believer to eternal blessedness in the new heaven and new earth.

Giving, the App, and Staying Connected

Community Bible offers several ways to give. Online giving is available through the CBC App and the church's online giving portal. In-person giving is collected in boxes at the doors of the worship center each Sunday. Checks may be mailed to the church office at 4125 Johnson Street, High Point, NC 27265, or dropped by the campus offices at 4106 Johnson Street, Monday through Thursday from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM. The CBC App can be downloaded for Apple and Android devices and provides sermons on demand, sermon notes, events, giving, and the church directory.

Visitors who want to take a next step can fill out a "Let Us Know You're Coming" form, join the Discovery Meet and Greet, attend the Membership Matters Class, or sign up for the Grounded Group. The church also publishes a weekly parent resource with family discussion guides tied to what children learn on Sundays.