Hollis Center Church

God raises up the lowly.

If we disconnect our faith from the story of God's people, we will create the savior we want, rather than the Savior God promised throughout the ages.

In Christ's resurrection, our experience of loss can be transformed.

Misunderstanding our King has eternal consequences.

Through the Lord's Prayer, Jesus teaches us how to connect with God and understand ourselves.

Prayer is meant to be both private and public but never about drawing attention to ourselves.

Our extravagance reveals our true love.

Jesus is life in Impossible Circumstances

Those who belong to God see the works of Jesus and believe.

Jesus is the one leader who offers us true protection!

In Christ Jesus we can have our eyes opened to reality.

Spirit powered obedience is the key to living the faith.

God redeems messy situations.

Jesus is our refuge.

The journey of the wise men was a journey of discovery. So is ours.

The hope of Christmas is life-altering.

Jesus is truly the King for everyday people.

We can experience the presence of God today.

Waiting on God is a worthwhile long-game.

Jesus gives us confidence in where we come from, where we are going, and who we are.

Both of Calvin and Shelly were born to missionary parents who worked in different continents. Calvin's parents worked first in Angola and then in Zambia. Shelly's parents worked in northern Brazil among Amazonian Indian tribes. Calvin and Shelly met in South Carolina while Shelly was in Bible College and Calvin was in seminary. After graduating there were married in July, 1991. They spent two years working and raising support and then served with Africa Evangelical Fellowship (AEF) in Namibia and Angola. Eventually AEF merged with SIM and they became SIM missionaries. Calvin and Shelly worked in Namibia for a year and a half and in Angola for almost eleven years in the area of leadership development and in the production of books in various Angolan languages like Luchazi and Chokwe. They have been able to print copies of nearly 60 books in these languages and seek to provide them at cost to pastors and people in ministry in Angola, Zambia, Namibia and South Africa where these language groups are found and have functioning churches. Calvin and Shelly left Angola in 2005 with the intent of working in a similar capacity in Namibia but were unable to obtain work visas to live and work there. Two years into this prolonged waiting, they began to design and put together a SIM related project called the Pastor's Book Set. This project goal is to supply books and resources to Christian workers in English, the national language of Namibia, along with Bible teaching and conferences in these various cities. As time has elapsed and contacts made, the Pastor's Book Set has frequently helped various ministries net-work in these ten different cities. So far 38 books have been supplied to these 1400 pastors in two different phases and a third is planned. For the past few years, we have been living and working here in the US helping to care for our aging parents and in caring on the printing of these multiple language books and the Pastor's book Set in Namibia. During their time in Namibia and Angola God blessed them with two daughters, Charity and Charissa who were both born in Namibia. Charity, their first-born daughter, is now working as a Vet in an emergency room of an animal hospital in south east Phoenix. Charissa, their second born daughter is married, living in southern Maryland and works as a social worker in the public school system.

Sin is best destroyed through mercy and repentance.

Our ultimate hope of restoration is through Christ Jesus, specifically the work of the Holy Spirit.

With Jesus as our example, we are to give all glory to God and not seek our own worldly glory.

Jesus provides the food we need for eternal life.

God has a different perspective on our crises.

Everything we do as Christians must be about loving and knowing Jesus Christ.

There is a God. You are not Him. Jesus is.

Put your faith and trust in Jesus and you will see Him work beyond your imagination.

The hour that Jesus was lifted up changed everything.

Pursue Jesus, Not Yourself.

Access to the Kingdom: It's not what you think. Not even close.

Jesus's challenge to Nicodemus and to us is: It's not what you think.

Connecting with God in the right way leads to a life where we respond with a Kingdom mindset.

Jesus provides the best banquet.

Those longing for all to be made right will find the answer in the person of Jesus Christ.

Building your identity on who you are not and who Jesus is will change the game for your life.

It matters that Jesus is both fully God and fully man.

When genuine love is lost, people get hurt.

When we do things our way and not God's way, things get weird and often end badly.

Jesus is the true and better Samson in every way.

God desires repentance in us, not payment from us.

Even when evil looks unchecked, God can and will make it right.

Just doing great things for God is no replacement for closeness with God.

God doesn't need our numbers to work mightily.

God doesn't need your strength. His strength is made perfect in weakness.

God uses the unexpected to accomplish His purposes.

God is in control and can therefore rescue his people through even the most surprising means.

If faith is not the center of who we are and what we do as God's people, we have no foundation.