Our History

Christian Life Center was started with an apostolic team in mid 1994 which began to meet in the Williamsburg Library Theater for a nine month period. In February of 1995 we moved into a warehouse behind Ewell Station Shopping Plaza. It was there that the Holy Spirit "fell" and blessed us with a time of fresh repentance. The church quickly quadrupled and began to have great impact on the youth of our city. In February of 1998 we moved to a location on Richmond Road while we continued to grow and expand our ministry to the community and those hungry for the Lord.

In the spring of 2000 we moved to our present 16-acre property on Longhill Road. The Lord has continued to be steadfast in meeting the spiritual needs of Williamsburg, in part through His efforts at Christian Life Center.

Our Worship

We worship and celebrate Jesus because of His love, mercy and righteous character, not for what He can do for us in a physical or material way. "True worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for these are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks" (John 4:23). "In spirit" points to the level at which true worship occurs. One must come to God in complete sincerity and with a spirit directed by the Holy Spirit. Jesus is the "truth" (John 14:6), therefore worship must take place according to the truth of the Father that is revealed in the Word of God (John 17:7).

At Christian Life Center we advocate an expression of worship that is not only meaningful and appropriate, but in reality is commanded by the Bible:

Singing  (Ps. 47:6; Eph. 5:18, 19)
Lifting hands  (Ps. 134:2; 1 Tim. 2:8)
Clapping  (Ps. 47:1)
Shouting  (Ps. 35:27; Ps 47:1)
Kneeling  (Ps. 95:6)
Dancing  (Ps. 149:3; 150:4)
Instrumentation  (Ps. 150:3-5)

Our Vision (updated March 2008) 

A multicultural, local church patterned after the New Testament that will transform our city one life at a time through the power of the Gospel, purposeful relationships and spiritual multiplication.