OUR HISTORY: Calvary Baptist Church is an Independent, Fundamental, Premillenial, Evangelistic, Missionary Baptist Church. In our services we read, teach and preach from the King James Version of the Bible. We may cooperate in mission work and fellowship with any Baptist church, organization, or group of Baptist churches who are sound in the Scripture. In the early 1980’s Pastor Bob Vradenburgh, wife Chlo and their children came to the Cayman Islands as B.I.M.I. missionaries from the USA. The first service of Calvary Baptist Church was held on June 15, 1985 in the Lions Center with nine persons present. Later, the church was given some property on Walkers Road in George Town, Grand Cayman. People from the States and on the Island worked hard along with Pastor Vradenburgh in erecting the present church building. It was almost completed when the first service was held in it in January, 1991. The 3,400 sq. feet Mission Home (parsonage), next to the church was completed in four and a half days by Mission Teams from the USA in 1996. From 1993 until Pastor Vradenburgh’s resignation as pastor in 1999, his wife Chlo was battling Cystic Fibrosis of the lungs and had a double lung transplant at Duke Hospital in North Carolina. Having to stay near the hospital, they attended a church in Raleigh. Soon the pastor retired, so they called Pastor Vradenburgh as pastor and he accepted. Mrs. Chlo had the lung transplants in February 1994 and had to stay near Duke Hospital for two and a half years, so the church called one of their own, Brother Michael Jeremiah, to be the interim pastor (Feb. 1994 to Nov. 1996). He had been to Bible college. After his tenure here, he and his wife went back to his home country of Grenada as a missionary, and they are one of our missionary families today. Sister Chlo was able to return to Grand Cayman in November, 1996 and enjoy the new parsonage until her husband accepted the call to Friendship Baptist Tabernacle in Raleigh, NC in July 1999. (In February, 2004 the Lord called the wonderful, Christian, wife and mother home to be with Him). Brother Brandt Holliday with Baptist International Missions, Inc. became the interim missionary pastor until they called Missionaries Swante and Linda Lindquist to be their pastor in December 1999. They arrived on January 3, 2000 and stayed until the last of November 2005. While they were here, the $40,000 church debt was paid off, the parking lot was paved, the sidewalk was built in front of the house and church and repairs were made to the church and parsonage after Hurricane Ivan did much damage on September 11, 2004. The Lindquists had been missionaries in a French speaking part of Africa and had a burden to continue using their French abilities, so when the door opened for them to go to Guadeloupe in the French West Indies to help start a Bible institute and radio ministry, they took it as God’s will, and he resigned the church in September 2005. Missionaries Ken and June Love came down in September and met the people. He preached on Sunday, September 18, 2005, and the church called him to be their pastor on Wednesday, September 21, 2005. The Loves had been USA Church Planters with B.I.M.I. since 1981, and they recommended them to the church. The Loves moved down the last of November as the Lindquists were moving out, and Missionary Pastor Ken Love took over the duties of the church the first of December 2005. It has been a time of growing numerically and Spiritually. Several have been saved, baptized and discipled. Our Sunday morning attendance is usually between 110 and 150. There is a Sunday School class for each age group. We are in great need of an educational building for Sunday School class rooms and fellowship hall, so we are raising money to begin that project.
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