For the majority of my life, I grew up in a Calvary Chapel. My family moved from Allentown to Lancaster when I was 5, which is when we first started attending Calvary Chapel of Lancaster. I loved Scripture — reading it, memorizing it (a majority through a local AWANA program), and studying it. I came…
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Kathy Blecker
I grew up in Flemington, New Jersey with my mom, dad and older sister, Susan. After graduating high school, I began studying Journalism at West Virginia University. My time there was marked by pain and confusion, as my mother had been diagnosed with colon cancer the summer before I began my college studies. By the…
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Jared Clements
Although I grew up in the church, I certainly didn’t understand the life of a believer in Christ. My childhood included a lot of rejection from my classmates and a lot of bullying. I never really felt like I fit in; I was always trying to be someone that I wasn’t. By the time I…
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Doug McClean
It’s a joy to be able to serve the Lord as pastor here at Calvary! It wasn’t my plan, my idea, or my objective; but I’m thankful for the way the Holy Spirit redirected me and brought me to this place. I grew up south of Baltimore in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, with my mom,…
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