About

our story

You’re joining us at an incredible moment, but to truly appreciate where we are now, it’s helpful to reflect on where it all began! Church founders originally attended the renowned “Pentecostal Church of Cleveland” and began meeting in private homes in 1949. Steady growth permitted moves first to the East Cleveland Women’s Club, then into a small church building in Euclid. Continual growth allowed for a two-stage building program to commence in 1969 to build and move into our present location in Willoughby Hills. This 9-acre plot would permit much-needed parking and recreational areas, and would accommodate the second building phase to begin in 1985.

Preceded by 7 faithful Lead Pastors, our current Pastor, Dan DeLembo, first joined Calvary’s lead team in 1995 as Youth Pastor before accepting his current role in 2014.

The generosity of our congregants has enabled us to be debt-free while staffing a variety of ministries and financially supporting 60+ Global Impact partners stateside and around the world! This Kingdom investment allows Calvary to stay committed to helping people everywhere consider the good news of Jesus.

calvary's
mission & vision

Calvary Assembly exists to help people everywhere consider Jesus by helping them Connect, Grow, and Love God through life & service.

connect

CONNECT with God's plan for their lives through:

1. God's Word: the Bible (Psalm 119:105)

2. God's Presence: the Holy Spirit (John 14:26)

3. God's People: the Church (Ephesians 4:11-16)

grow

GROW in Faith & Godliness

Hebrews 11:5

Acts 16:30-31

Galatians 5:22-25

love

LOVE GOD through Life & Service

Matthew 11:36-40

1 Peter 4:10

I Corinthians 10:31

Ephesians 6:7-8

calvary's
values

13 Biblical Values help keep the culture and environment of Calvary Assembly conducive to see our mission & vision

accomplished for the glory of God.

1. CHRISTLIKE: Philippians 2:5; John 15:9-10

2. HUMBLE SERVANTHOOD: I Peter 5:5; Mark 10:43-45; John 13:14-15

3. FAITH: Hebrews 11:6; Acts 16:31

4. PRAYER: Romans 12:12; Luke18:1; Matthew 6:9-13

5. WORSHIP: John 4:24; Psalm 100:2, 4

6. SPIRIT-LED: Romans 8:14; John 14:26; Galatians 5:22-25

7. UNITY ACROSS AGE & CULTURE: I Corinthians 12:12-14; John 17:20-21

8. COMMUNICATION (grace & honesty): John 1:14; James 1:19

9. COMPASSION: I Peter 3:8; Matthew 25:40

10. HONOR: Romans 12:10; I Peter 2:17

11. EXCELLENCE: Colossians 3:23-24

12. GENEROSITY: Acts 20:35; I Timothy 6:18; Hebrews 13:16; Luke 6:38

13. FAITHFULNESS: Matthew 25:23

AFFILIATION

Calvary is 1 of nearly 300 Assembly of God churches in the Ohio Ministry Network, and one of nearly 13,000 AG churches nationwide. The Assemblies of God is the world's largest Pentecostal fellowship with 16 Fundamental Truths serving as a biblical foundation.

1. THE SCRIPTURES ARE INSPIRED BY GOD and declare His design and plan for mankind

2. THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUE GOD revealed in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (the Trinity)

3. THE DEITY of the Lord Jesus Christ: As God's son, Jesus was both human and divine.

4. Though originally good, MAN WILLINGLY FELL TO SIN- ushering evil and death, both physical and spiritual, into the world.

5. EVERY PERSON CAN HAVE RESTORED FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD THROUGH SALVATION (trusting Christ, through faith and repentance, to be our personal Savior).

6. WATER BAPTISM by Immersion after repenting of one's sins and receiving Christ's gift of salvation, and HOLY COMMUNION (Lord's Supper) as a symbolic remembrance of Christ's suffering and death for our salvation.

7. THE BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT is a special experience following salvation that empowers believers for witnessing and effective service, just as it did in New Testament times.

8. The initial physical evidence of the baptism in the Holy Spirit is ‘SPEAKING IN TONGUES,’ as experienced on the Day of Pentecost and referenced throughout Acts and the Epistles.

Ohio Ministry Network

Assemblies of God

9. SANCTIFICATION INITAIALLY OCCURS AT SALVATION and is not only a declaration that a believer is holy, but also a progressive lifelong process of separating from evil as believers continually draw closer to God and become more Christlike.

10. THE CHURCH HAS A MISSION to seek and save all who are lost in sin. We believe ‘the Church’ is the Body of Christ and consists of the people who, throughout time, have accepted God’s offer of redemption (regardless of religious denomination) through the sacrificial death of His son Jesus Christ.

11. A divinely called and Scripturally ORDAINED LEADERSHIP MINISTRY SERVES THE CHURCH. The Bible teaches that each of us under leadership must commit ourselves to reach others for Christ, to worship Him with other believers, to build up or edify the body of believers–the Church and to meet human need with ministries of love and compassion.

12. DIVINE HEALING of the sick is a privilege for Christians today and is provided for in Christ’s atonement (His sacrificial death on the cross for our sins).

13. THE BLESSED HOPE—When Jesus raptures His Church prior to His return to earth (the second coming). At this future moment in time all believers who have died will rise from their graves and will meet the Lord in the air, and Christians who are alive will be caught up with them, to be with the Lord forever.

14. THE MILLENNIAL REIGN OF CHRIST when Jesus returns with His saints at His second coming and begins His benevolent rule over earth for 1,000 years. This millennial reign will bring the salvation of national Israel and the establishment of universal peace.

15. A FINAL JUDGEMENT will take place for those who have rejected Christ. They will be judged for their sin and consigned to eternal punishment in the lake of fire.

16. A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH that Christ is preparing for all people, of all time, who have accepted Him. We will live and dwell with Him there forever following His millennial reign on Earth. ‘And so shall we forever be with the Lord!’