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Our Purpose: 

 

 

Living Water Community Church exists to help people develop a relationship with Jesus Christ and to deepen that relationship in order to display that relationship in our church, our community and our world. To achieve this purpose, we have a three-part aim:

 

To Know Him -

this is accomplished primarily through a dynamic relationship with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

To Grow in Him -

this is accomplished primarily through discipleship, both personal and corporate. Our Church family is committed to the teaching of the whole Bible.

To Show Him -

this is accomplished primarily through outreach and maintaining a Godly lifestyle. Sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ with those who do not know Him as Savior is a mandate given to all believers.

Living Water Community Church is a member of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Our Statement of Faith: 
 

SBCWe affirm that the 66 books of the Old and New Testament are the Scriptures and that sole authoritative source of written revelation from God. The statement of faith contained in the 18 articles known as "The Baptist Faith and Message" adopted by the Southern Baptist Convention on June 14, 2000, represents a summary of the major doctrines of the Christian faith as held by Living Water Community Church.

 

 

 

MEET INTERIM PASTOR DENNIS REEVES
I was born and raised in New Jersey.  After a year of rebellion against Him, God drew me back and called me to pastoral ministry when I was in eighth grade.  This was not because of my spiritual maturity but to give me focus and direction growing up in a home being destroyed by my father’s alcoholism.  I went to college at then Eastern Baptist College in  St. Davids, Pennsylvania (now Eastern University), where I met my wife, Pat  (and earned a B.A in religion).  I then attended Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Hamilton, Mass.  Pat and I were married at the end of my first year there.  After graduating with a Master of Divinity and ordination in 1973 I became the pastor of the First Baptist Church of East Millinocket, Maine.  My wife is a Maine native and introduced me to Maine and wonders not well known in New Jersey, like clean air and townships without names because no one lives there.  Over the next thirty-eight years I also served as full time pastor in Bar Harbor, Camden, Fairfield, and Springvale, Maine.  While in pastoral ministry in Bar Harbor and Camden I also earned a Doctor of Ministry degree in Ministry to Marriage and Family from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary (now Palmer School of Theology of Eastern University).  I have extensive experience in pastoral counseling, feel free to contact me if you have a need. Our oldest daughter, Rebecca, was born in Millinocket.  She is a wife, mother of Beth,  and family practice physician living in Cobleskill, NY.  She met her husband, Jim Eckel, at a Christian Student Medical Society meeting and he treats diabetic patients in Cooperstown, NY.  Our daughter Erin was born in Bar Harbor, and after college lived in Bethlehem for a summer followed by working in Washington, D.C.  for two years as a magazine jr. editor and a staffer for the US Senate.  She then went to Gordon-Conwell for a Master of Theology degree, where she met her husband, Kurt Kafferlin.  She is the mother of Grace and Sam  and a stay-at-home mom.  Kurt, after seminary, went on to Law School and is the Assistant District Attorney in Houlton, Me.  We also have a son, Shane White, who God gave to us when he was a junior in high school.  Shane was an orphan, but we quickly became Mom an Dad though there was no legal connection.  Shane is a career army noncom (now sergeant first class) and is stationed in Fort Riley, Kansas with his wife, Amanda.  Shane has provided us with grandchildren Caitlin, Logan, and Ian.
After retiring from full time pastoral ministry in June of 2011,  I am enjoying this opportunity to minister at Living Water and leading the church through the process of preparing for and searching for its next full time pastor.