Who we are

After nearly two years of prayer around dining room tables, Mark and Sherri Proctor and Joe Don and Jamie Long watched in awe as God began to assemble a team of gifted leaders and visionaries to begin a new church on the western/northwestern edges of Lubbock, TX. The church would be the fulfillment of a dream that today’s church could be a place of high-energy worship, transformational teaching, unprecedented giving, and genuine outreach to others without compromising the truth-the gospel of Jesus Christ. The church could have a culture of excellence and continuous improvement without sacrificing the genuine community that Christ intended when He found the church 2000 years ago. The church could be a place where the “good news” actually sounded like great news, and the days and weeks of the attendees were constantly affected by what was being taught. Using our best effort and God’s energy, the church would be motivational, inspirational, and transforming. That was the dream of Fellowship Church Lubbock!

Out of obedience to the leading of the Holy Spirit, Fellowship Church Lubbock was founded in November 2002. God assembled the church vision to bring the unchurched as well as the regular attendee into a deeper, more meaningful relationship with Jesus Christ. FCL is both a traditional church using contemporary techniques and a contemporary church with a traditional message. We believe that the Bible contains great news for the Christ-follower and our mission is to teach it to the best of our abilities, using God’s power, to transform lives (Colossians 1:28).

FCL first met in February of 2003 with 90 people in a vacant bank building on west 50th street. And, in March of 2003 moved to our current facility.

God says in Jeremiah 33:3, “Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.” God has been extraordinarily faithful to that promise over the years.

Government and Management

We believe that the New Testament is clear in it’s establishment of qualified elders as the principal leadership of the local church. To that end, the Lead Pastor does not operate as the CEO of the church rather as an Elder with “shared leadership” responsibilities of teaching and preaching the Word.

Elder: FCL is an elder lead church. The establishment of the Elders is controlled by the by-laws of the church, and led by the Chairman of the Elders. The Elder’s primary function is the spiritual protection, formation, and development of the church. Elders are recruited and trained by the existing elders, with the advice and input of the management team and congregation, by the leading of the Holy Spirit.

For a list of Elders, please see the “Staff Page.”

FCL Management Team

Deacons/Service Teams: The Elders may elect to broaden the leadership structure at any time using Deacons (spiritually qualified and ordained) and/or service teams.

Our Guiding Principles

These are the principles that will guide us to a deeper pursuit of Jesus Christ.

1. Seeking – We will invest time and effort in identifying and building relationships with the lost people who have been divinely placed in our lives to show off who Jesus is and His powerful love.
2. Studying – We will strive for the excellence in our learning and teaching of the Great News – the man Jesus Christ – and the character of God with a goal that He will reveal Himself to us deeper.
3. Surrendering – We will strive to give God our best of true communion in our worship, our prayers, our praise, with coming to the Lord’s Table, and with our stories of His presence in our lives.
4. Sharing – We will strive to genuinely overlap out lives in true Christian fellowship, sharing together as one body the joys and trials of everyday life.
5. Serving – We will strive to serve others in both our church and community using the specific gifts God has bestowed on each one of us.

“They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.” Acts 2:42 (NASB)