CCC's Leadership

We seek to be biblical in our church leadership.
Christ is the only Head of this church (and any true church). (Colossian 1:18a)

All church members are equals, brothers and sisters in Christ, and have equal standing before the Father as priests. We cannot and should not go through any man or priest to get to God, except Jesus Christ. So as a congregation we stand on equal ground with no "special" super-Christian leaders. (Galatians 3:28; 1 Peter 2:9; 1 Timothy 2:5)

However, the Bible also teaches that there are leaders in each church who meet biblical qualifications and have been called by God and recognized by the church to oversee the flock. The Bible commands us to obey, follow and submit to these leaders. (1 Timothy 3:1-13; Titus 1:5-9; Hebrews 13:7,17; 1 Peter 5:1-5)

We have overseers (elders, bishops - same word in the Bible) who lead the church as servants, examples, teachers. CCC has relegated decision-making abilities to our overseers so that every little decision doesn't have to come before the entire body. Larger decisions do. We have a pastor-teacher, who is one of the overseers and is accountable to them.  We have a deacon, who biblically leads in matters of service.

We believe in raising up our own leaders, rather than searching for them from outside our church body. We must constantly be training new leaders. If something were to happen to our pastor or overseers, CCC must continue in the same vision, the same doctrine, the same call of Christ. God is faithful to raise up these leaders, and we give Him praise.

Here are the current leaders of Conway Celebration Church:

Overseers: Cary Cox, Jeff Mullins, Steve Wingo.

Cary also functions as our pastor-teacher.

Deacons: Eric Kindsfater, T.J. Wood and Chet Gordon.