About Us

The Faith Church family would like to extend an invitation for you to worship with us. We are a Christ-centered church family depending upon Christ’s power to live lives worthy of His calling, reaching out to our community to introduce them to our best friend, Jesus Christ.   You can know Jesus as your best friend!  The simplest way we know to introduce you into friendship with Jesus is A-B-C-D!

  1. A – Admit that you have sinned.  – “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” – Romans 3:23 (NIV)
  2. B – Believe that Jesus died for your sins. – “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” – Romans 6:23 (NIV)
  3. C – Claim His death as the payment for your sins. – “[Jesus] gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.” – Titus 2:14
  4. D – Do it now!  Don’t delay!  – “I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.” – 2 Corinthians 6:2b

We are a growing church reaching out to the military and civilian community of Jacksonville and Onslow county.  Our purpose is to “Reach the World and Teach the Word with Passion for Christ and Compassion for All.”  Come discover what others have: Our church can be your home!  For a link to our church’s belief statements, click here.

Pastor Bill & Cheryl Crane
Cheryl & Pastor Bill at their nephew’s wedding in May 2021

Meet the Cranes.
Pastor Bill & Cheryl have served our family since they moved here in July of 1995.  Pastor Bill, our lead pastor, is also involved in various local ministries, including part-time and volunteer corporate/hospital chaplaincy.  Cheryl is a teacher in an elementary school in the county.   Their daughter, Sarah, is married and living in Lebanon, TN.  She and her husband David just recently had a baby boy, so the Cranes are enjoying their new identity as grandparents!

Pastor Anthony & Yahira Collison
Pastor Anthony & Yahira Collison

Meet the Collisons.
Anthony and Yahira were both part of the Faith Church family in their youth. Anthony joined the Marine Corp, serving seven years and was a member of the Marine Corp Band! After sensing God’s call on their lives, Anthony began preparations for ministry, completed his Bachelor’s degree, served at Faith Church, and at the Davis Creek, WV Nazarene Church. We are glad that they are back home at Faith Church now! Anthony is bivocational, serving as a Music Teacher at a local school. Anthony serves as our Minister of Outreach and is a member of our Worship Team. Anthony and Yahira, his wife, have two awesome young children, Dean and J.J., and another one on the way!

Our church has recently completed a relocation project following a fire which destroyed our building.  We are now worshipping the Lord in a new building on our new property, located on Route 24/258 about a mile west of the city limits of Jacksonville, NC, at 3608 Richlands Hwy.

Please come join us as we launch into this new phase of Faith Church’s ministry and as we continuing planning and preparing for Phase Two!

6 thoughts on “About Us”

    1. Hi Pastor Don! Thank you! See if going to https://www.jaxnaz.org helps. Adding the “s” after http forces your browser to connect securely, which may solve the problem McAfee is highlighting. Let me know if that helps.

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  1. Hello,we are the spillmans and will be coming to the Jackson ville area at the end of the month looking forward to finding our church. My husband is a retired nazare ne. Pastor. We will be happy to hearing your teaching

    1. Hi Phyllis and Rick! Welcome to North Carolina and to Faith Church! We look forward to getting to know you! Let us know if you have any questions! May God bless you! – Pastor Bill

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