1 Peter 5: 2-3
Our leaders serve willingly, lead humbly, and live the example God asks His shepherds to show.
Our Leaders
MEET PASTOR CALVIN ISAACS
Elder Calvin Isaacs was appointed the Pastor at Elim Assembly on February 9, 2025. He was admitted into fellowship at Elim Assembly in 1986. Shortly after he became a Sunday school teacher, and in 1988 he became youth president. In 1992 he married Karen Grant.
In 1997 he was pointed out as a deacon, and as an elder in 2002. He did his bachelors degree at Jamaica Theological Seminary (JTS; 1999-2003) and a masters in Counselling Psychology at the Caribbean Graduate School of Theology (CGST; 2003-2005). He obtained another masters degree, in Clinical Mental Health (2010) and a PhD in Educational Psychology from Ball State University in Indiana, USA.
He returned to Jamaica in 2013. He became an associate counsellor with Family Life Ministries in 2014, and here at Elim he was selected to be chairman of the board of elders in 2017.
He was appointed marriage officer in 2017 and commissioned as a Justice of the Peace (JP) in 2020. He is also a member of the board of directors of Christian Brethren Assemblies – Jamaica (CBAJ); deputy chairman for the board of directors of Midland Bible Institute (MBI); and is Elim’s representative on the Greater Grants Pen Ministers’ Fraternal.
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WHAT WE BELIEVE
01.
— The Scriptures
The scriptures were verbally inspired by God and without error in their original writings. This extends equally and fully to all sixty-six books. We hold the bible, therefore, to be the absolute, sole and final authority in all matters relating to doctrine, practice, faith and life.
02.
— The Godhead
The Godhead eternally exists in three persons – the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. These three are one God, having precisely the same nature and attributes, power and glory.
03.
— The Lord Jesus Christ
The Lord Jesus Christ, the son of God, was born of a virgin. God manifest in flesh, he was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. By his voluntary, substitutionary death he became the Saviour of the world, having borne all of the righteous judgments of God against sin. He rose bodily from the dead, was seen and ascended into heaven where he is now the believer’s advocate and high priest. In the same body in which he ascended, he will return to establish his kingdom on earth.
04.
— The Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is a person. He it is who convicts men of sin, righteousness and judgment, who regenerates, seals and indwells all believers of this age, baptizing them into the body of Christ. His permanent indwelling of the believer is the source of all power and all acceptable worship and service. In response to submission, He fills (controls) the believer, producing the fruit of the spirit and thus holiness of life. Speaking in tongues was never the common or necessary sign of the baptizing or of the filling of the spirit.
05.
— Man
Man was created innocent by God, rebelled in Adam, is a sinner by birth and behaviour, possessing an utterly depraved nature, and unless he is born again, he is condemned to conscious, everlasting punishment. Since redemption was provided solely through the blood of Christ dying as man’s substitute, the new birth comes only through faith in him, which results in the imparting of a new life and nature. The believer will be resurrected from the dead to be rewarded for his/her faithfulness, but never to be judged for his sins, and will live in eternal fellowship with God.
06.
— The Eternal Security of Believers
The sinner who puts his trust in the redemptive work of our Lord Jesus Christ upon the cross is born again, becomes a child of God, and is indwelt by the Holy Spirit who is himself the seal until the day of redemption. The believer, therefore, is eternally secure and will never lose his salvation which is entirely a free gift of God.
07.
— The Church
The church is composed of all believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, and he is the head. All believers are members of one another, regardless of membership or non-membership in organized churches on earth and have a solemn responsibility to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace, and to love one another with a pure heart.
08.
— The Ordinances
The ordinances of the church are two — baptism and the lord’s supper– which two were taught in the gospels, practiced in the early church as recorded in Acts of the Apostles, and expounded in the epistles. Baptism is by immersion by which the believer publicly identifies himself with the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord’s supper was instituted by the Lord himself on the night of his betrayal, to be observed in remembrance of him until he comes.
09.
— The Priesthood of Believers
Every person who receives the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour becomes immediately a priest of God and has access to the Father at all times through the Lord Jesus Christ, the believer’s high priest. The believer’s function as a priest is to offer up spiritual sacrifices of praise and thanksgivings to God. The exercise of this priestly function (speaking) in all public gatherings of the church is given only to the men.
10.
— The Commission
The Holy Spirit gives enabling gifts for service to each believer who, in turn, is responsible for exercising these gifts as empowered, and as directed by the Holy Spirit. The Lord Jesus explicitly sent forth believers into the world as he was sent forth by his father. Their relationship in the world is to be that of strangers and pilgrims, ambassadors and witnesses, and that their primary purpose in life should be to make Christ known.
11.
— The Rapture
The Lord Jesus Christ shall descend from heaven for his saints. The dead in Christ shall be raised and the living saints shall be changed and caught up together to meet the Lord in the air. This event will take place before the great tribulation.
12.
— The Judgment Seat of Christ
All believers shall appear before the judgment seat of the Lord Jesus Christ to give an account for the things done in the body since their conversion, whether it be good or bad. This judgment is not to deal with the sin question but to reward the believers for their faithfulness to him.