“We had just a great time of worship and studying the word, and fellowship afterward,” said Lee Flory, a recent arrival from Longview, Wash., and pastor of the new church.
Because no one knows how many people will be involved, Flory said that the conference room will serve as a sort of launching pad for the church.
Flory has been a part of Calvary Chapel for the last 10 years, and served as assistant pastor at Calvary Chapel in Longview for two and a half years. After being contacted in September about starting a church in Homer, Flory came for a visit and decided to make the move.
Flory and his wife, Brenda, are not totally new to the Homer area. Fourteen years ago they attended Alaska Bible Institute for two years. Their first child was born in Homer.
Flory said his family plans to make Homer their permanent home. The couple has five children.
Calvary Chapel is a nondenominational church organization that began in Santa Anna, Calif., in the 1960s. Now, there are more than 1,250 Calvary Chapels around the world. In Alaska, there are two other Calvary Chapels, one in Anchorage, and one in Juneau.
Flory said that teaching in Calvary Chapels is done systematically rather than topically. He began teaching from the book of Matthew on Sunday, and will continue on, chapter by chapter, to the end of the New Testament. After that, teaching will begin in Genesis and continue to the end of the Old Testament.
“My whole purpose with the church is to teach systematically through the Bible, and to have fellowship in a contemporary worship,” said Flory. “I want to keep it simple, focus on teaching the word and fellowship.”
Services are held at 10 a.m. Sunday morning.
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