The Church Family And History

A BRIEF HISTORY OF CROSS CREEK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

The Presbyterian Church in America began to provide a ministry in Fayetteville, NC, when individuals from several churches met in September 1976 to establish a mission church in the Fayetteville area.

The first service was held at the home of lay pastor Sam Johnson on September 12, 1976. By October arrangements had been made to hold services at the Cardinal Theater, where the group met for a year, later moving to a house in Haymount and then to the Confederate Women’s Home Chapel on Ft. Bragg Road. In June 1977 Robert C. Wilson came as organizing pastor, under whose ministry the church was incorporated as a particular church in 1980. The church determined to build a facility on McPherson Church Road while a pulpit committee sought another pastor.

In January 1983 CCPC called Randy Wilding as its second pastor. By January of the following year construction was complete on the new facility at 430 S. McPherson Church Road, and they began holding regular services there. James Braden came in June 1987 as third pastor. Plans toward a building program were begun in February 1993, and by April 1998 the new addition, consisting of four large classrooms, a conference room, a 4-room office suite, and restrooms, as well as expansion of the existing sanctuary, was dedicated. In May 2001 to the glory of God the mortgage was paid off. Pastor Braden continues as Senior Pastor; in January 2003 William Bivans was hired as part-time Assistant Pastor of CCPC and was officially installed in July of that year.

Discussion in the Session began in January 2001 concerning the need for a PCA church in North Fayetteville, and candidates for church plant pastor were held in June and July of that year. In October a call was extended to Andrew Webb, and in November he was installed as Associate Pastor in Charge of Planting for Providence PCA Mission Church. They began holding services in May 2002 at St. Andrews United Methodist Church’s original chapel. Through God’s grace Providence outgrew their original meeting place, and search for a larger facility was begun. In October 2003 their current location at 2801 Ramsey Street was leased, and renovations were completed in February 2004. Providence submitted a petition for particularization to the Central Carolina presbytery and became a particular church in January 2005.