Welcome!
Clayton, NC – Mount Calvary Baptist Church is an independent, fundamental, Bible-believing, Baptist Church with a desire to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ through Bible preaching and teaching, inspirational music, and real Christian fellowship.
We are working to provide a church home in which every member of your family can grow spiritually and be encouraged to live for the Lord Jesus Christ. Please, take a moment and look around this site at everything MCBC has to offer you and your family. If we can assist you in any way, please do not hesitate to contact us. May God richly bless you as you seek His will for your life.


Planning a visit to Mount Calvary?
You can expect a warm, friendly welcome from our entire church family. You can expect the Bible to be preached and taught with compassion and clarity. You can expect to find music that honors and glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ. You can expect to find a church that loves people and is passionate about making Jesus Christ known in our community and around the world.
- Sunday School: 9:30AM
- Sunday AM Service: 10:30AM
- Sunday PM Service: 6:00PM
- Wednesday PM Master Clubs: 6:30PM
- Wednesday PM Service: 7:00PM
Due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19), our service times and locations are limited. We are currently limited to Sunday morning services (at 10:30), Sunday evening services (at 6pm), and Wednesday evening services (at 7pm), and they are all located in our church gym to enable better distancing. Live-steaming is also available for all services.
Sunday School – A Place for You!
Mount Calvary has Sunday School classes available for everyone! We are continuing to work to provide a place to care for and minister to every person in your family. Nurseries are available during all services for children from birth to three years old. We also have Sunday School classes and Children’s Church on Sunday Mornings for children aged five through twelve. During the school year, our Wednesday Night Bible Club teaches the Bible for all children up to sixth grade!

Every Sunday at 9:30 AM
We’d love to meet you there! You’ll find us in our classes, ready to learn more from God’s Word. Mount Calvary Baptist Church has a Sunday School class for everyone, from the youngest to the young-at-heart. We believe that it one can never be too young or too old to come to God’s House and study God’s Word. The Bible says in II Timothy 2:15 that we are to “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
Dig in! Sunday School serves as a time to develop a love and understanding of the Word of God. We teach not just the classic Bible stories but also their eternal impact. At Mount Calvary Baptist we intend to put God’s Word into practice in our lives, for the Bible cautions us in James 1:22 “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.”
Plug in! Sunday School also provides a place for people to get to know one another. Mount Calvary always strives to be a friendly church, but little can replace the personal connections that a smaller group and fellowship represents. We love to laugh, share burdens and learn together.
Nursery (0 - 2 Years)
Mrs. Christine
The Nursery Ministry at Mount Calvary Baptist Church is committed to serving parents and children from birth to four years old. We have a loving and caring staff of volunteers that work to provide your child with a clean, safe environment during their stay. We have all kinds of activities that help your child learn to love others and to love God.
We strive to make your child’s stay a happy experience. We teach them simple Bible stories that will serve as a basis for their years in Sunday School. We have a nursery available during all services for all children under the age of 3.
We hope your child will enjoy our nursery and that you will feel comfortable leaving them in our care. The safety and well-being of children is a top priority for our church. To that end, all of our volunteers have been trained and screened before being permitted to work with children.
Get in Touch
Please Visit Us!
We’d love to meet you.
Mount Calvary Baptist Church meets in excellent modern facilities. Our auditorium is light, airy, welcoming–and thanks to a new digitally tuned sound system, there’s a not a bad seat in the house!
We hope you’ll feel right at home.
Address
5217 Barber Mill Road
Clayton, NC 27520
Phone
919.553.5187
What We Believe
Bible
God
Father
God the Father, whose name is Jehovah, infinite in wisdom, goodness, and love. (Exodus 3:13-14; Acts 17:23-25)
Son
God the Son, Jesus Christ, God’s only begotten Son, our Lord and Savior, born of a virgin, who lived a sinless life, died and rose again for our justification and lives forevermore that we might be redeemed. (John 3:16; Galatians 4:4-5; Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:18; Acts 1:10-11, 5:30-31; 1 Peter 2:22; Romans 5:1)
We believe that this same Jesus will come again the second time, first in the air at the rapture of born-again believers and then all the way to earth in glory after the tribulation period to rule and reign a thousand years. (Acts 1:11; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17; 1 Corinthians 15:51-53; Revelation 20:6)
Holy Spirit
God the Holy Spirit, a divine person, of the same nature as God the Father and God the Son, who was active in creation, who in His relation to the unbelieving world restraints the evil one until God’s purpose is fulfilled, who convicts of sin, righteousness, and judgment, who bears witness to the truth of the Gospel in preaching and testimony, who is an Agent in the new birth; in that He indwells, seals, empowers, guides, teaches, witnesses, sanctifies and helps the believers in accordance with the Scriptures. (John 14:16-17, 16:7-11; Acts 5:32, 11:16; Romans 8:14-16)
We believe that the sign gifts of the Holy Spirit, such as speaking in tongues and healing, were temporary. Speaking in tongues was never the common or necessary sign of the filling of the Holy Spirit. (1 Corinthians 1:22, 13:8-10, 14:21-22)
Man
Salvation
Gospel
Satan
Heaven
Hell
Church
We believe that this Church must operate free and independent of all other organizations being affiliated only with the true Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of which He is the Head. This Church acknowledges the Lord Jesus Christ as its sole head.
We believe in the common salvation of all born-again believers in Christ. We also believe in the autonomy of the local Church free of any external authority or controls. Any affiliations, societies, organizations, associations, or agencies with which this Church affiliates to further the purpose and objective stated in Article II are not authoritative in matters of Church practice or belief. (Jude 3; Ephesians 5:23-27)
Creation
Human Sexuality
Gender
We believe that Bible describes two genders, male and female. We believe that God disapproves of and forbids any attempt to alter one’s gender by surgery or appearance. (Genesis 1:27; Mark 10:6)
Practice
We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of a marriage between one naturally born man and one naturally born woman. We believe that any form of homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, bestiality, incest, fornication, adultery, and pornography are sinful perversions of God’s gift of sex. (Genesis 2:24, 19:5, 13, 26:8-9; Leviticus 18:1-30; Romans 1:26-29; 1 Corinthians 5:1, 6:9; 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8; Hebrews 13:4)
Marriage
We believe that the only Scriptural marriage is the joining of one naturally-born man and one naturally-born woman for life. (Genesis 2:24; Romans 7:2; 1 Corinthians 7:10; Ephesians 5:22-23)
Abortion
Euthanasia
Divorce and Remarriage
We believe that God disapproves of divorce and intends marriage to last until one of the spouses dies. Divorce and remarriage is regarded as adultery except on the grounds of fornication. Although divorced and remarried persons or divorced persons may hold positions of service in the Church and be greatly used of God for Christian service, they may not be considered for the offices of Pastor or Deacon. (Malachi 2:14-17; Matthew 19:3-12; Romans 7:1-3; 1 Timothy 3:2, 12; Titus 1:6)
Lawsuits Between Believers
Many people today are concerned with the behavior of individuals. All around us, sin and crime are on the rise; indeed “evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse.” (2 Tim 3.13) The answer is not for God’s people to quit or become discouraged, but to continue. “But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of.” (2 Tim 3.14a) We are to continue in God’s Word, learning more and more about Him and His will for our lives.
At MCBC, we recognize that belief determines behavior, and as such we place great emphasis on God’s Word and its doctrines. As a New Testament church, we believe that it is our responsibility to “earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.” (Jude 3) God gave us His Word once, but it must be contended for in every generation.
In a day and age when doctrine is considered irrelevant and boring, confusing and divisive, we realize that what we believe is critical and eternally important. What we believe individually will affect how we behave individually; what we believe corporately will affect how we behave corporately. As a New Testament church, it is our prayer that when it comes to Bible doctrine, we will always stand steadfastly for “the faith.”
Notes from the Pastor
Trophies of God’s Grace
“That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.” - Ephesians 2.7 The Apostle Paul in penning his letter to the Ephesians uses the expression “riches” five times. Here in our text, Paul is...
Paul’s Changed Life
“But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. And they glorified God in me.” – Galatians 1.23-24 Nothing in this world is as powerful as the Gospel. The word Gospel means “good news.” In the Bible,...