Upon my first visit to New Life Community Church I was warmly greeted by the Greeters, Ushers,…read morestaff, and the volunteers who work in the café area where coffee is served. Most importantly, the pastor teaches Biblically sound doctrine. The church's website has its core beliefs posted and church sermons are available online.

Every time I have attended a Sunday service at this church, I have left more frustrated than when I…read morearrived. After multiple visits over the years, my concerns haven't changed, they've only become clearer. The Pulpit here feels more like a feel good ego booster than a place of Biblical Authority and Accountability. Topical preaching, as it is consistently delivered here, feels shallow and misaligned with what people truly need in this season. We are living in a time where the world is loud, chaotic, and spiritually heavy. Scripture makes it clear that we are in a battle, not against flesh and blood (Ephesians 6:12) and people are walking into church desperate for truth, clarity, and spiritual equipping. Instead, the messages often revolve around surface-level topics like saving money, managing anxiety, or even personal anecdotes that feel disconnected from the weight of what believers are facing. There is a real hunger right now for solid, biblical teaching. People are not just looking for encouragement, they are looking for transformation through The Word of God. With biblical literacy at an all-time low, the responsibility of a pastor is not to entertain or lightly motivate, but to teach, correct, and equip (2 Timothy 3:16-17). I have yet to hear a message here from Pastor Tom that reflects the depth, authority, or conviction that pastoral leadership requires. 1 Timothy 3 lays out clear qualifications for church leaders: self-controlled, respectable, able to teach, and above reproach. Leadership in the church is not a platform for personal preferences or casual storytelling, it is a calling that demands humility and accountability. John 3:30 reminds us, "He must increase, but I must decrease." When that posture is missing, it shows. At any given moment, someone can walk through those doors completely broken, searching for something real, something eternal. That is not a small responsibility. That is a weight pastors are called to carry with reverence and seriousness. Messages should point people to Christ, confront sin, strengthen faith, and prepare believers to stand firm in a spiritually dark world, not simply offer life tips or light encouragement. After giving this church chance after chance since 2021, I can confidently say this is not a place where I have found that kind of leadership or teaching. It often feels like there is more emphasis on comfort than conviction, and more desire for agreement than accountability. My prayer is that leadership takes a step back, examines Scripture honestly, and realigns with what biblical shepherding is truly meant to be. The church is too important, and the times we are living in are too serious, for anything less.

Grace Bible is my home church. The people are very caring and loving. Our pastors are great, they…read moremingle with the people before the service starts. Pastor Bill always is down to earth and teaches not preaches. The message is all ways easy to understand.

Love Grace Bible Church Great Music Great Message Very WelcomingGreat Bible Studies…read more Learning so much.

This church has been such a light in my life. I stumbled across Reclaim Church about a year ago,…read moreknowing very little about God and feeling very uncomfortable walking into churches, even though I deeply wanted to grow closer to Him. From the moment I stepped into Reclaim, it felt like home. Every sermon teaches me something new about the Bible and Scripture. The pastors do an incredible job breaking down God's Word in a way that is easy to understand, relatable, and applicable to real life. They don't just teach, you're challenged to think, grow, and truly live according to Scripture. You can genuinely feel the presence of the Holy Spirit in this church. Reclaim has played such a huge role in bringing me into a strong, meaningful relationship with God, and I am forever grateful for this church and its leadership.

Let me start off by saying; If you are looking for a structed foundation to grow in Christ,…read moreestablish great fellowship with church members, this is not the church for you! The sermons are short 20-25 minutes at best, and with no substantial teaching of God's word, but will hear the Pastor(s) talk more about them, inappropriate jokes and wearing "shmedium" shirts, comical rather than Godly. This is more a beginners 101 class. As far as discipleship goes, there is none. Baptism is held once a year, Bible study consist of watching a video and trying to figure it out on your own. The "fellowship" outside of the church is playing pickleball, that's great for the more athletic and youth, but not for the mature, elderly or disabled. Basically, this church is a "Recovery" church for those looking to get their lives back on tract without feeling "pressured" in really serving Christ! All in a nutshell, Reclaim is a weekend "warrior church"

My family and I attended Dream City Church - Glendale for a period of time and initially had a very…read morepositive impression. The environment was welcoming, and our kids became heavily involved in several of the church programs. At first, we truly believed we had found the right church home for our family. Unfortunately, after our family experienced a very serious and personal situation involving one of our children, we reached out to the church seeking support and guidance. During that difficult time, we hoped for some level of care, follow-up, or even a simple check-in from someone within the church community. Sadly, we did not receive any response or outreach from church leadership or members. I even met personally with the pastor at one point and shared that we were hoping to find a church that would stand beside families not only during good times but also during difficult seasons. When we later reached out asking if the church could simply provide a letter acknowledging our family's absence due to the situation affecting us, we again received no response or support. Another disappointment was that after signing up for various church programs, the primary communication we received consisted mostly of promotional emails encouraging purchases or sign-ups, rather than meaningful engagement or community support. This experience has been very disheartening for our family. While we appreciated the involvement our kids had early on, we ultimately feel that the church did not stand by the values of community and care that it promotes. Because of this, our family has made the difficult decision to stop attending and will be searching for a church that more closely reflects the support, compassion, and accountability that we believe a church community should provide. I sincerely hope that in the future the church places greater emphasis on following up with families who reach out for help during difficult times.

We attended the Christmas Show yesterday and it was worth going to. There is a lot of talent!!…read more Just make sure you do not sit to the right of the stage on the lower level as most of the time your view is obstructed by the camera that is moving all over the place.

Respects and cares for all individuals. They care deeply about social justice. There is a deep…read moredesire to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Great Church to be a member. UCC is an open and affirming church…read more Members are very friendly and welcoming. Centrally located in the Sun City area. The senior pastor is Reverend Paul Whitlock and assistant pastor is Jim Alexander. The COTP UCC helps with many needs in the area, feeding the homeless and helping school children. Also a member of the IHELP program. God is good! God is still speaking!

Great church. The staff it's great and people are true…read moresurvents. We should all stand up for what is right and support the true ministries and let the light shine so the world will see and be changed.

For one who is a true believer I left feeling a bit off, music was so loud that when I went for the…read morerestroom I could not hear..very very very loud, maybe to loud. Full of theatrics,

i love calvary , the pastors and teachers of the holy bible, explain, the word of god, from…read moregenesis to the end of the bible, verse by verse the pastors are caring understanding, and they all have a big heart, they love helping their comunity, and the word of god is teach in love kindness and compation, and all the ministers of the word of god and pastors, are center, in the love of jesus, teaching in spirit and in truth. everyone, is center in jesus love kindness, and compation, i recomend calvary community church 100% the word of god is teach from the bible, not another book,

This is our home church. We discovered it right after moving to Peoria. Why you ask? Wonderful…read moreworship. Expositional teaching which we prefer. Pastoral team is focused on teaching the Word. Book by book, chapter by chapter, verse by verse. Hence, expositional. It's a church that's quick to rally to a need. Prayer is of paramount importance. Genuinely a warm and welcoming place.

I went for a celebration of life with my husband and he was fantastic. I wish I lived closer to be…read moreable to go to his service on Sundays

I have been going to Grace Church now for almost 15 years. Everything about this church radiates…read morethe love of God and the people here are always so genuine from the moment you walk in, until you time you leave already looking forward to the next service or group. Pastor Manuel gives such a powerful message on sundays and makes you feel right at home, regardless of your background and where you've been. The children and youth are so blessed here, so no matter what age you are or how many family and friends come with you, there is an experience for you here at Grace Church.

The positive: 1. The worship team is great. Their voices are…read moreexcellent. I enjoyed their singing. The drums were little too load, but all in all, they are recording ready. 2. Was impressed by their food court and merchandise area. Negative: 1.Too many women ushers, and a woman pastor. Women in pastoral roles not biblical. I got the vibe that this is a very women centric church, maybe even progressive. 2. They breezed through communion. You basically pick up a sealed cup at the door. The female pastor talked about communion for a second then walked off the stage leaving us to figure what to do next. We were looking around to see what everyone else was doing and then we "got it", it's time to take communion on our own. I'm sorry but, although it's a symbolism of Christ's blood and body, the pastor should actually lead you through this as he performs it himself. To me, this act should carry more significance. 3. The Senior pastor comes on the teleprompter to preach and he was not on stage. Clearly it was prerecorded from an earlier sermon. For whatever reason he was not there, a real person in physical form should have been preaching. We left about 5 to 10 minutes into the sermon once my wife and I realized there was no one on stage. Unfortunately, we will not return.

I have never given a review of a church before and I never thought I would. The campus is nice, the…read moreplace is clean and everyone I met was nice. The praise and worship was fine. To each his own on that. I don't care if the band is amazing, it's your time to praise God. My issue was scripture. I came to a ccv over a year ago and left extremely underwhelmed. It was more of a slide show than church. I tried it again tonight hoping I was too judgmental last visit. The service is done remotely with no teacher or pastor teaching live to the congregation. This is a seeker friendly church. I saw one bible in the entire crowd. It was very busy. The 'sermon' was basically a business lesson on creating systems in your life. The pastor (on the screen) quoted more authors than he did scripture. He held the Word of God the entire time and never taught it. If you're looking to go to church be check the box, this is your place. If you want to dig into scripture, be challenged and grow in your knowledge and understanding of the bible, I'm afraid this isn't the place. I left with a sunken feeling that the churches in our country have grown cold. We are still looking for a great, bible teaching church near us. We will keep looking. I'm not mad or upset with ccv, however, at the same time, believe if the pastor would open the bible and teach through it, completely and verse by verse, this church could radically impact the valley. They have no shortage of people and the impact they could have would be immense. I pray the pastoral staff seeks God and gets a burning desire to share HIS word, not a bunch of slide shows, modern self help ideas and authors. God's word is powerful and should be taught every time the churches meet for service. I wish them the best!

This was my first time at this church and it was absolutely amazing felt extremely relatable and…read moredidn't feel like they were just preaching to preach. They preach from their heart and it's recognizable.

Come here to see the love of God through his people and hear a Word of God through the pastor!read more