Who We Are
Our Staff:
Pastor Robert & Angeline Tucker
Pastor Robert Tucker has pastored Starville Church since 1971. He and his wife, Angeline, have been married since 1965 and have two children, Rob and Tamara, as well as four grandchildren. In 1968, he graduated from Elim Bible Institute in Lima, New York.
Pastor Tucker and Angeline have taught in many Bible schools and conducted pastor's training seminars throughout the world since 1980. They have collaborated on their book on marriage and the family Except the Lord Build the House. In 1994, Pastor Tucker wrote and published Changed from Glory to Glory, a book teaching on the subject of repentance. He has also written God's Powerful Voice, a book on the study of how to personally know what God is speaking.
Pastor Tucker is treasurer of Zion Fellowship International and serves on a number of foreign missionary organization boards.
Carolyn Kilpatrick
Carolyn is the secretary for Starville Church. She is here to assist any one with office needs. You may obtain baptismal applications, Sunday School supplies, message tapes, or contact her with announcements for our weekly bulletin.
Our Vision:
Starville Church, by God's grace, will encourage and propagate through all scriptural means the furtherance of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is our vision to establish a Godly kingdom in the body, soul, and spirit of the human race where Christ will rule eternally.
Our Purpose:
This congregation is organized as a church exclusively for charitable, religious, and educational purposes. This church will also ordain and license people to the Gospel ministry; evangelize the unsaved by the proclaiming of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ; educate believers in a manner consistent with the requirements of holy scripture, both in Sunday and weekday schools of Christian education; maintain missionary activities in the United States and any foreign country.
Our Statement of Faith:
We believe there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, who is the Maker and Preserver of all things visible and invisible.
We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ; that Jesus existed eternally with the Father, became Man by the miracle of the incarnation, in no degree ceasing to be God. He is co-Creator of the world and man, only Savior, and coming Judge.
We believe the whole canon of scripture (both Old and New Testaments) as originally given, to be the inspired and authoritative word of God, of supreme and final authority in all that it teaches and declares.
We believe that all men are lost apart from the saving grace of our Lord Jesus Christ; that sin is cleansed only through personal repentance and faith in the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ; that water baptism by immersion should follow receiving Christ as Lord and Savior.
We believe that the redemptive work of Christ on the cross provides healing for the body as well as for the mind, soul, and spirit of man; that Christ has an answer for every problem man has, physical or spiritual.
We believe that miracles and all gifts of the Spirit are available to the Church today for the edifying and perfecting of its members.
We believe that God will visit His Church in unusual ways and bring many multitudes into the kingdom before Christ’s second coming, for which cause we are preparing ourselves.
We believe that baptism of the Holy Spirit, evidenced by speaking in other tongues according to Acts 2:4, is promised to all who desire it, ask for it, and obey God.
We believe that everyone will be resurrected (saved and unsaved) and give an account to the Great Judge, whose judgment is final and eternal.
We believe that divorce and remarriage to another person is contrary to God’s will and purposes. Therefore, the pastor shall not solemnize such remarriages.
We believe that man should live a moral life according to the standards set forth in scripture. This includes: living a holy life; being full of love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, meekness, temperance and faith (Gal. 5:22-23).
We believe that God has ordained and created all authority consisting of three basic institutions: 1) the home; 2) the Church; 3) the state. Every person is subject to these authorities, but all (including the authorities themselves) are answerable to God and governed by His word.
We believe that every Christian, as a steward of that portion of God’s wealth entrusted to him, is obligated to support his local Church financially.
Our Affiliation:
Starville Church is associated with Zion Fellowship International. ZFI is a nondenominational, Pentecostal organization which oversees a worldwide missions program, residential & correspondence Bible schools, Christian publications, and many other ministries throughout the world.