ABOUT Christ Community Church
Welcome to Christ Community Church
Whether you’re exploring who God is or want to grow in your faith, we are delighted about your interested in our church. We hope your faith will be strengthened through our contemporary worship services and practical Bible teaching and that you will find a community of fellow broken people who are seeking hope beyond this world. Read on to learn more about who we are, what we believe and our mission and vision as a church.
Service Times:
Thursday | 6:30pm
Sunday | 8:30am, 10:00am, 11:30am
HELPING ALL PEOPLE FIND FREEDOM IN FOLLOWING JESUS
OUR MISSIONTherefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you…”
Our mission statement of helping all people find freedom in following Jesus is rooted in the Great Commission — making disciples of all people. Our mission is an invitation to come and have your life be transformed by the gospel of Jesus Christ. We believe that our mission is an invitation to a shared journey of transformation becasue we know that we were created for community; that to make disciples, we must first be disciples.
We are committed to be continually growing in every way as disciples of Christ
A Higher Hope
Looking to a hope higher than ourselves: God.
A Deeper Faith
Growing deeper through the study of the Bible and growing in community together.
A Wider Love
Display love toward others with compassion. To share the Gospel with those around us.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
Our Affiliation and Doctrinal Statement of FaithWe adhere to, and fully support the EFCA Statement of Faith. These are, we believe, indisputable tenets of God, and there is no room for debate on these points. The “Free” in the denomination’s title means that having affirmed these tenets, our body is an independent organization and free to govern itself with no interference from the EFCA.
CCC is affiliated with The Evangelical Free Church of America, a family of self-governing churches united around the same core beliefs. The EFCA motto “In essentials, unity. In non-essentials, charity. In all things, Jesus Christ” exemplifies our shared commitment to unity in the Gospel, preserving Christian liberty, and autonomous congregational polity.
To learn more about the EFCA, our shared Statement of Faith, and the unique distinctives of the EFCA, visit www.efca.org.
God
We believe in one God, Creator of all things, holy, infinitely perfect and eternally existing in a loving unity of three equally divine Persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Having limitless knowledge and sovereign power, God has graciously purposed from eternity to redeem a people for Himself and to make all things new for His own glory.
The Bible
We believe that God has spoken in the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, through the words of human authors. As the verbally inspired Word of God, the Bible is without error in the original writings, the complete revelation of His will for salvation, and the ultimate authority by which every realm of human knowledge and endeavor should be judged. Therefore, it is to be believed in all that it teaches, obeyed in all that it requires and trusted in all that it promises.
The Human Condition
We believe that God created Adam and Eve in His image, but they sinned when tempted by Satan. In union with Adam, human beings are sinners by nature and by choice, alienated from God and under His wrath. Only through God’s saving work in Jesus Christ can we be rescued, reconciled and renewed.
Jesus Christ
We believe that Jesus Christ is God incarnate, fully God and fully man, one Person in two natures. Jesus, Israel’s promised Messiah, was conceived through the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. He lived a sinless life, was crucified under Pontius Pilate, arose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father as our High Priest and Advocate.
The Work of Christ
We believe that Jesus Christ, as our representative and substitute, shed His blood on the cross as the perfect, all-sufficient sacrifice for our sins. His atoning death and victorious resurrection constitute the only ground for salvation.
The Holy Spirit
We believe that the Holy Spirit, in all that He does, glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ. He convicts the world of its guilt. He regenerates sinners, and in Him they are baptized into union with Christ and adopted as heirs in the family of God. He also indwells, illuminates, guides, equips and empowers believers for Christ-like living and service.
The Church
We believe that the true church comprises all who have been justified by God’s grace through faith alone in Christ alone. They are united in the Holy Spirit in the body of Christ, of which He is the Head. The true church is manifest in local churches whose membership should be composed only of believers. The Lord Jesus mandated two ordinances, baptism and the Lord’s Supper, which visibly and tangibly express the gospel. Though they are not the means of salvation, when celebrated by the church in genuine faith, these ordinances confirm and nourish the believer.
Christian Living
We believe that God’s justifying grace must not be separated from His sanctifying power and purpose. God commands us to love Him supremely, and others sacrificially, and to live out our faith with care for one another, compassion toward the poor and justice for the oppressed. With God’s Word, the Spirit’s power and fervent prayer in Christ’s name, we are to combat the spiritual forces of evil. In obedience to Christ’s commission, we are to make disciples among all people, always being witness to the gospel in word and deed.
Christ's Return
We believe in the personal, bodily and glorious return of our Lord Jesus Christ. The coming of Christ, at a time known only to God, demands constant expectancy and, as our blessed hope, motivates the believer to godly living, sacrificial service and energetic mission.
Response & Eternal Destiny
We believe that God commands everyone everywhere to believe the gospel by turning to Him in repentance and receiving the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe that God will raise the dead bodily and judge the world, assigning the unbeliever to condemnation and eternal conscious punishment and the believer to eternal blessedness and joy with the Lord in the new heaven and the new earth, to the praise of His glorious grace. Amen.
MULTIPLYING MOVEMENTS OF DISCIPLE-MAKING AND CHURCH-PLANTING THROUGHOUT THE SANDHILLS AND BEYOND
OUR VISIONIn May of 2024, we unveiled our new vision for CCC that looks to 2050. We believe that Christ Community Church is positioned to make an impact in our community by making disciples, strengethening church leaders, and church planting throughout Moore County.
This vision is rooted in Acts 9:31, “So, the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied.”
We will continue to update as the vision becomes fully tangible and the pieces begin to come to fruition. We hope to launch 4 locations by 2030 as seen in the image below.
OUR HISTORY
Senior Pastors L-R
Dan Francis, Dean Engebretson,
Bill Korver, Charlie Taylor
Senior Pastor panel during 40th Anniversary Worship Services, June 25 & 28, 2026
The 40th Anniversary Festival allowed for the congregation to take in the church’s history and past generations of members took the opportunity to catch up and meet the newer generations.
In 1991, CEC began searching for a new Senior Pastor and they called Bill Korver, whose first official worship service was Christmas Eve, 1991. In 1995, feeling a call to spreading the gospel around the world, two of CEC’s members, Gerald and Frances Mitchum, decided to move to Mongolia and founded V.E.T. Net, an organization with Christian Veterinary Mission that provides support and assistance for the rural areas of Mongolia.
Throughout the 1990’s, CEC would live by a mission statement of “[producing] obedient followers of Jesus Christ who live each day anticipating His coming Kingdom,” and a vision statement of “[building] a growing group of equipped believers in Jesus Christ who are discipling others in the Sandhills of North Carolina and around the world,” a sentiment still felt to this day.
Steady growth of the church, specifically regarding children, inspired a desire for a larger space so in 1997, CEC purchased an old office building on West Pennsylvania Avenue in Southern Pines in order to have a dedicated space for children’s church and a larger worship space for adults.
In 2004, Dr. Korver resigned in order to assume the presidency of Carolina Bible College in Fayetteville, NC, and in 2005, CEC called Dean Engebretson to be its next Senior Pastor. Under Pastor Dean’s leadership, the church began building a new mission and in late 2005, the mission “growing a community passionate for God and His purposes” was adopted and CEC changed its name to Christ Community Church.
Over the next ten years, CCC grew exponentially in congregation and ministries and as a larger military population began moving into the area, two ministries were born out of this new congregation: a Military Family Ministry and a Counseling Ministry.
In 2018, Pastor Dean announced his retirement and the church called Ken Schmidt as the next Senior Pastor. Between 2018 and 2020, CCC began looking outside the walls of the church and focused on local outreach partners including supporting a small school in Moore County, Cameron Elementary School.
In 2020, Pastor Dan Francis became interim Senior Pastor and in 2021, he was officially called as Senior Pastor of CCC. In the next few years, CCC would adopt a new mission and vision outlined above.
In June 2026, CCC celebrated its 40th anniversary with a weekend that looked back at the legacy of God’s faithfulness and looks forward to what God will do with Christ Community Church over the next 40 years.