ABOUT US

Committed To Christ Ministries Church officially opened on January 26, 1997, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Evangelist Joyce Brown was ordained as founder and Senior Pastor by Apostle Walter Leigh Bates and Co-Pastor Delores Bates of Balm in Gilead For All People Ministries. Later that year on October 18, 1997 Pastor Joyce Brown was united in holy matrimony with Gregory Thornton. God had a master plan to raise up a married couple to cohesively shepherd His people together. In 2001, Dr. Gregory Thornton was ordained Pastor by Apostle Walter and Co-Pastor Bates, and together they began Pastoring Committed To Christ Ministries together as a husband and wife ministry team.

Committed To Christ Ministries flourished and was under the Apostolic Covering of Apostle Walter Leigh Bates for eight years. In 2005 God emphatically spoke the word “International” over the ministry and the church’s name was amended to Committed To Christ International Ministries, in the same year they shifted to the Pastoral Covering of Bishop TD Jakes (Dallas, TX) where they were ordained under (P.H.I.P.A.) Potters House International Pastors Alliance, the spiritual covering for Senior Pastors. During their ministry together, Bishop Gregory and Apostle Joyce Thornton have birthed out many subsidiary ministries both individually and collectively for the purposes of advancing and building the Kingdom of God.

In early 2014 God instructed the Thornton’s to leave their history and move into the next phase of their destiny. In September 2014 they announced that God had unequivocally instructed them to move the church to Arlington, Texas. After Pastoring in Milwaukee, WI for 18 years, CTC officially had their final worship service on Sunday March 8, 2015. Subsequently, eight families moved from Milwaukee to Texas within 18 months to help build the ministry. And many more have transitioned to Texas as the Lord have directed them to come. CTC specializes in sharing Christ with the Nations through real church, real encounters and unscripted worship services. 

ABOUT OUR PASTORS

Both Bishop Greg & Apostle Joyce operate strongly in the ministry of deliverance through the demonstration of the Holy Spirit. It is their desire to see everyone set free and made whole with Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. As educated, ecclesiastical preachers and teachers, both Bishop Gregory & Apostle Joyce Thornton possess Master's Degrees in Christian Counseling as well as Doctorate Degrees in Divinity and Theology, respectively. The Thornton’s have been blessed to travel extensively to share the good news of Jesus Christ nationally and internationally. They have been privileged to travel together and/or individually to, Nassau Bahamas, the Island of Bimini, Bermuda, Canada, London, England, Milton Keynes, England, Paris France, Berlin Germany, Madrid Spain, Poland, the Holy Land in Israel. They have been blessed to partake on foreign missions to Kenya, South Africa as partners in helping to bring food, medical supplies, wells for clean water to help impoverished children and families. Their lives are a testament of the motto of Committed To Christ International Ministries: “Sharing Christ with the Nations.”

The primary objective (intent, purpose, goal) of Committed To Christ International Ministries is to (1) develop (grow, mature, help to advance) people of purpose; that they may (2) understand (comprehend, recognize) and fulfill their God ordained assignments, and experience the different  dimensions of destiny in which God has predetermined for their lives. (3) Furthermore, producing (helping to make) and cause people to walk in their God ordained, power and, (authority). (4) Teaching them how to live a lifestyle of commitment, and consistency (define) by being totally submitted to the Lordship of Jesus Christ and devoted to the work of the Kingdom of God, through expository teaching and motivational preaching. (4) We have been mandated and (instructed by God) to aide in equipping the body of Christ to maximize their God given potentials, (5) and to evangelize and minister the word of faith, hope, and love to the world. Sharing Christ with the Nations and His word of salvation. Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of host. (Zechariah 4:6).

THE FOCUS OF OUR VISION ENCOMPASSES 3 AREAS

WE ARE COMMITTED TO:

 BUILDING THE CHURCH OF JESUS 

 IMPACTING THE COMMUNITY AND ENRICHING LIVES

 EDUCATING AND EMPOWERING PEOPLE SPIRITUALLY & NATURALLY

STATEMENT OF BELIEF

THE BIBLE

We believe that the Bible is infallible and inerrant word of God and is the supreme and final authority for all Christian faith and conduct. It is the revelation of God to mankind, fully inspired by Him. It is sufficient for the knowledge of God and His will that is necessary for the eternal welfare of mankind.

2 Timothy 3:16,17; 2 Peter 1:21; 1 Corinthians 2:13; Deuteronomy 29:29; 2 Timothy 3:15; John 10:35

GOD

We believe that there is but one God, whose essential nature is that of a living, personal Spirit. He is infinitely perfect in all of His attributes, He is the creator and sustainer of all things, and He exists in three persons—Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 8:4; John 4:24; 5:26; Genesis 1:1; Colossians 1:16,17; Matthew 28:19

JESUS CHRIST

We believe that Jesus Christ is true God and true man; that is, He is fully divine and also fully human. He preexisted eternally with the Father, was conceived by the Holy Spirit\ and born of the Virgin Mary, lived a perfect life and died a substitutionary death for the sins of mankind. We believe that He arose bodily from the grave that He ascended to heaven, where He is presently High Priest and Advocate for His people and He is the world's only Savior and is the Lord of all.

Philippians 2:5-11; John 1:1; Matthew 1:23-25; 1 Peter 2:22; 1 Corinthians 15:3; 1 Timothy 2:6; 1 Corinthians 15:20; Hebrews 4:14-16; John 14:3; Acts 4:12

THE HOLY SPIRIT

We believe that the Holy Spirit is a divine Person, the third Person of the Trinity. We believe that He was sent from the Father by the Son to convict the world, to regenerate and indwell those who trust in Christ, to baptize them into the Body of Christ, to seal them for the final day of redemption, to guide them into truth, to fill them for a life of holiness and victory and to empower them for witness and service.

Acts 5:3,4; John 16:7-14; 3:5-8; 1 Corinthians 2:9-12; 3:16; 12:3-13,28-31; Ephesians 1:13,14; Acts 1:8

MAN

We believe that man was originally created by a definite act of God in His own image and is dependent upon and accountable to his Creator. Through disobedience, the first man sinned and fell from his original state of moral perfection. As a consequence, he brought upon himself and upon the whole human race the penalty for sin, which is spiritual and physical death. Since Adam, every person is born with an inherently sinful nature and becomes a sinner in thought, word and deed.

Genesis 1:26,27; 2:7; Romans 2:6-16; 5:12-21; 6:23 ; Matthew 5:20-48; John 3:36

SALVATION

We believe that a person is saved by God's grace alone, made possible through the shed blood of Christ, whereby He died a substitutionary death for mankind, and through the Resurrection of Christ. Salvation becomes effective when a person, by an act of faith, acknowledges Jesus Christ as his personal Savior and Lord. Ephesians 2:8,9; 1 Corinthians 15:3; Acts 16:31; Romans 10:9; Acts 3:19; Romans 3:28; John 3:16; John 1:12; 10:28

WATER BAPTISM

We believe that Water baptism is an essential part of New Testament salvation and not merely a symbolic ritual and it is part of entering into the kingdom of God. The ordinance of baptism by immersion is commanded in the Scriptures. All who repent and believe on Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord are to be baptized in His name. Thus, they declare to the world that they have died with Christ and that they also have been raised with Him to walk in newness of life.

John 3:5; Mark 16:16; Acts 2:38; Acts 10:47, 48; Acts 19:1-6; Romans 6:3-4

THE CHRISTIAN LIFE

We believe that God expects every believer to live a life of obedience, in which every area of his life is brought under the lordship of Jesus Christ and the fruit of the Spirit becomes increasingly evident in his life. The goal of the Christian life is to be conformed to the image of Christ. This life is characterized supremely by self-giving love for God and for others.

John 14:21; 2 Corinthians 10:4,5; Galatians 5:22,23; 2 Corinthians 3:18; Matthew 22:37- 40; 1 John 2:15-17; Hebrews 12:5-14

THE CHURCH

We believe that the Church of Jesus Christ is the universal company of God's redeemed people, His Body, of which He is the head, His Bride, whom He loves infinitely, and His temple, in which He dwells. This universal Body of Christ is visibly expressed in local assemblies, whose purpose is to glorify God through worship, fellowship, instruction in God’s Word, observing the ordinances and training in service to the world. The supreme task in the mission of the Church is to make disciples for Christ in all the nations through the proclamation and teaching of the Gospel.

1 Peter 2:9,10; Ephesians 1:22,23; 5:25-27; 2:19-22; 1 Thessalonians 2:14; Ephesians 3:6-10; Acts 2:42; Ephesians 4:11-13; Hebrews 10:25; Matthew 28:18-20; Matthew 26:26-29; 1 John 4:17

THE FUTURE LIFE

We believe that immediately after death the Spirit of mankind returns back to God who is the creator and is consciously in the presence of God to be judged for the life they lived and the works they done in the earth. The believer will live eternally in the presence of God, while the unbeliever and sinners must face the eternal and holy Judgment of God who will sentence him for his sins and He will cast them into Hell to experience the punishment of eternal separation from the presence of God forever. Ecclesiastes 12:7; Hebrews 9:27; Romans 6:23; Revelation 20:11-1

OUR VALUES

Faith in Jesus Christ

Passion for the Gospel

Love and Respect for all people

Kindness, Honesty

Spiritual growth

Worship as a privilege and the power of meeting God with other believers

OUR CORE VALUES

FAITH

We are committed to faith in Jesus Christ as expressed in the Bible.

PRAYER

We are committed to continual prayer.

WORSHIP

We are committed to faithfully offering our worship before God.

BIBLICAL TEACHING

We are committed to relevant biblical teaching that transforms lives.

DEVOTED TO THE WORK OF GOD

We are committed and devoted to building the kingdom of God.

OUTREACH

We are committed to bringing people to personal faith in Christ at any cost.

GIFTEDNESS

We are committed to utilizing the giftedness of every believer who follows the word of God.

CHANGE

We are committed, in an ever-changing culture, to effectively present the unchanging Gospel.

EXCELLENCE

We are committed to do all of God’s work in excellence

VALUE STATEMENTS

1) We are committed to equipping Christians through biblical preaching and God’s word.

2) We are committed to reliance on prayer for direction, conception, planning and execution of the

ministries and activities of this church.

3) We are committed to helping people discover their spiritual gifts that they might use them in the

building up of the Body of Christ, the church.

4) We are committed to the ministries of this church being carried out by non-ordained servants.

5) We are committed to receiving direction from the Holy Spirit that enables creativity and

innovation. We are more concerned with effectiveness in ministry than with adherence to tradition or

efficiency.

6) We are committed to maintaining a high standard of excellence in all ministries.

7) We believe that life is meant to be given away and that Christianity exists to share Christ with others. We will develop aptitudes that encourage numerical growth without compromising in any way our integrity or our commitment to biblical truth.