Our Pastor

Dr. Ron Boswell is a native of Mississippi. He is a graduate of Mississippi College, BA 1968, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, M. Div. 1973. and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, D. Min. 1985. He has also studied at the School of Pastoral Care at NC Baptist Hospital and the Babcock School of Business at Wake Forest University. Dr. Boswell served as BSU Director at the University of Mississippi 1973-1981, pastor of Clement Baptist Church in Person County NC, 1981-1990 and Mt. Carmel Baptist Church in Chapel Hill, 1990-1999. He came to Calvary in September of 1999.

Dr. Boswell has served as Moderator of the Beulah Baptist Association, President of the North Carolina Baptist Historical Society, and as a member General Board of the Baptist State Convention serving on the Council on Christian Higher Education. He is married to the former Carolyn Cockrell of Fulton, Mississippi who is a second grade teacher. They have two children, Kevin, born in 1978, and Kristen born in 1984. Ron enjoys golf, gardening, and watching sports on TV.

 
 

Our Minister of Music

Mary Ella Cardwell currently serves as our Minister of Music. She is a graduate of High Point College taught in the local public schools in the county, and served as Minister of Music at FBC Reidsville for 23 years.

 

Our Minister of Church Activities

Travis Russell was born and raised in Gibsonville , North Carolina . He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro , where he received a BS in Elementary Education, May 2006. He is currently enrolled in Campbell University 's Divinity School seeking his Master's of Divinity.

Travis worked as a church intern at First Baptist Church of Elon for five years, participating in and leading a number of different activities with the children and youth of the church. Now at Calvary, Travis works with the children, youth, and senior adults of the church planning, coordinating, and leading a number of different activities and events. On his spare time, Travis enjoys golfing, softball, spending time with family and friends, and trips to the beach.

 

Our Church Secretary

Phyllis Cayton grew up in Calvary. She is a graduate of Rockingham County High School and attended Rockingham Community College. She has worked at Anne Penn Hospital and in child care.

How To Join Our Church

At the conclusion of every worship service, an invitation is given in which persons are invited to unite with our church. Those wishing to make such a decision are urged to come forward during the closing hymn and tell the pastor of their desire. Our church receives members in the following ways:

  1. By profession of faith, followed by believer's baptism. This simply means you wish to declare yourself openly as a believer and follower of Jesus Christ, and, in obedience to Him, to be baptized. The baptism we practice is believer's baptism by immersion, which is the New Testament mode of baptism. A member would also subscribe to the church covenant, articles of faith and constitution of this church. You may then be received into membership by vote of the church at that service.
  2. By letter. If you are presently a member of a Baptist church, you can transfer your membership from that church.
  3. By statement. If you have once been a member of a Baptist church, but are unable to promise a letter of transfer, you may still be received into fellowship by giving a statement of faith and being favorably voted on by the church.

Our Church History

Calvary began as a mission point of the Reidsville Baptist Church. As those friends came and helped a little group of people here who were trying to have a church, worship was moved from the bush arbor into a small log cabin. In the spring of 1898, a one-room church building was erected.

On August 30, 1901, the people attending the mission station met to constitute a Missionary Baptist Church with 22 persons presenting themselves to make up the charter membership. They were: J. J.. McCargo, Edd Scott, Alex Delancy, J. L. Moore, D. T. Moore, R. J. Moore, and D. M. Moore; also Mrs. D. M. Moore, Mrs. Martha Delancy, Mrs. Martha Foster, Mrs. Permelia Cantrell, Mrs. James L. Moore, Mrs. Layton Ford, Mrs. Anna Dill, Mrs. James Combs, Miss Minnie (Moore) Hudson, Miss Mary Lee Moore, Miss Mattie Delancy Michael, Miss Jennie Combs, Miss Martha Lovelace, Miss Della (Newnam) Carter, and Miss Mary North. These constituting the church, Rev. F. H. Jones accepted a call to become its first pastor. Others came immediately to unite with the church as a result of revival services, and the first deacons of Mt. Calvary were J. J. McCargo, Joshia Newnam, and D. M. Moore.

The Church was received into the Piedmont Association in the fall of 1901. The building, having been the property of the Reidsville Church, was deeded to the trustees of the new church; and was dedicated to the Lord in September, 1904.

The Church was received into the Dan Valley Association in 1948, after having voted to make the change. In 1958, because of the growth the church had experienced, the need was felt to call a pastor for a full-time ministry, rather than to continue on a quarter-or-half-time basis as in the past.

The present house of worship was first occupied in November 1954 and dedicated March 27, 1955. The old building was converted into Sunday School rooms, permitting the Sunday School to be fully departmentalized for the first time. The present educational building was first occupied in November 1962, and the present parsonage in April 1963.

Our work is not completed. As our past is a memorial to lives of dedication to God, of love and toil; so our future together will sing praises to Him as we reach out to others with the gospel of our Lord.

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