Joining Calvary Baptist Fulton

Perhaps you have attended Calvary and are interested in the prospect of becoming a member. If that is you, here are some steps you can take towards joining the Calvary family:

You may join Calvary Fulton by:

  • by baptism
  • by letter from another church of like faith and practice
  • by statement of Christian experience. This means you have already made a personal commitment to Jesus Christ and have been baptized by immersion.

Steps you can take towards joining the CBC Family:

  • At the end of each worship gathering the pastor is available to speak to prospective members near the entrance into the worship center to speak about next steps
  • Visiting the pastor in the gathering space outside the worship center following Sunday Morning to discuss next steps
  • Sign up for our new member course
  • Call our office to make an appointment with the pastor: (315) 593-1467 or email him at pastorcalvaryfulton@gmail.com
  • Express your interest in becoming a member of Calvary to one of our pastors and receive a prospective new member packet which includes various information including our doctrine, confessions we affirm, church covenant, and church constitution.
  • Complete a membership request form and return it to either the church office or one of the pastors (For a membership request form, call the church office).
  • We will also ask you to participate in a membership interview with the pastors of Calvary who want to get to know you. They will listen to your testimony, learn about your previous church experience/background and understanding of the gospel and the church, and discuss various practical issues in church life with you.

New Member Course

Welcome! We are delighted you are interested in joining our fellowship of believers. We continue to dwell in a time where strong Christian fellowship is needed, church membership continues to be important.

Our hope from this course is to best equip you for success in our church and to grow you as a follower of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This course is designed to help inform, but also maintain a culture of high expectations of every church member. When leading change it often starts here, setting these expectations with each new member.

Our course is currently divided into three classes:

Calvary 101-Information This week's class will provide you with information on the basics of our church: staff, worship style, ministry philosophy and where the bathrooms are located. We will introduce you to the church's history which will set us up for the next course: Doctrine.

Calvary 102-Doctrine Doctrine is important, we want to be thorough on what our church believes. We will discuss what it means to be a Baptist, what our church distinctives are, and to be clear about what you believe and who you are.

Calvary 103-Expectations We want to clarify expectations of what is expected from our membership and encourage you to fruitfully engage with various areas of our church.