Just for kids
Sunday School, Discovery Club and our nursery. Each child needs to know that God loves them, that God is there for them each day and that God has a plan for their life.
Children’s ministry →Opportunity to serve
Reaching, growing, and then serving: see the different ways God is using us to serve our church and our city.
“Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.”Matthew 20:28
At Berea Baptist Church, the process is Reaching, Growing, and then Serving.
Once we have a relationship with Christ, and grow in that relationship, God gives us a desire to serve Him. We begin to understand that we are the hands and feet of God and, just as Christ did, we must serve!
Our ministries
Ways we serve
Reformers Unanimous (addiction recovery)
Curtis and Kelly Carter started our Addiction Recovery ministry in 2017 with a burden for helping those struggling with the bonds of addiction. Reformers Unanimous meets every Friday night, encouraging and helping attendees and volunteers.
Ask about RU →Homebuilders Class
Our family helps ministry. A strong emphasis is placed on developing and maintaining a Christian home, peace with family members and proper relationships in our homes, that each home may find “a slice of heaven in the home”.
Outreach & missions
A community outreach through neighborhood visitation and gospel tract distribution, plus home and foreign missions supported through our Faith Promise Program.
Our mission →Home education
About Family Christian Academy of East Tennessee
When Pastor Napier and his wife became the administrators of Family Christian Academy of East Tennessee, they had one thing in mind above all the technical requirements and the certifications and curriculum criteria. They wanted to make home education simple, even for parents without formal teaching credentials. Just ask anyone who has enrolled a child in Family Christian Academy of East Tennessee: they really do make it simple!
Quality education is one of the best gifts we, as parents, can give our children. That is why at Family Christian Academy of East Tennessee we are dedicated to keeping the teaching tools we offer through our different ARK centers of the highest standards possible, for the children. The ARK Centers are more than an affordable place to purchase curriculum.
Pastor Mike and Linda Napier have three children of their own. Like many families who want to shield their loved ones from the perils of public school, they made the decision to home educate their children as times in the public school system began to change. Mike has been a preacher and pastor of Berea Baptist Church since 1993. Their level of dedication to the ministry of teaching people about the Lord has continued in their work with Family Christian Academy of East Tennessee, unwavering toward the goal, whatever it takes.