Sunday Mornings on East Chestnut Avenue
Faith Bible Church sits at 3139 East Chestnut Avenue in Vineland, New Jersey, where it has built a steady rhythm around two Sunday services and a Wednesday teaching night. The motto that frames everything is "Knowing Christ and Making Him Known," and the schedule is designed to support both. Two Sunday worship services, one at 9:00 AM and a second at 10:30 AM, give families a choice, and the 10:30 AM service is livestreamed on Facebook and YouTube so that members who travel, work weekends, or live farther away can still take part.
Greeters meet people at the corner of Chestnut and Lincoln, and the New Here page encourages first-time visitors to stop by the Cafe Connection on the fourth Sunday of the month to meet the pastors and staff by name. Worship is led by a worship team and band that draw from a "psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs" philosophy, intentionally blending traditional and contemporary styles rather than committing to one or the other.
Wednesday Family Night and Truth for Living
Midweek programming runs from 6:30 to 7:30 PM under the banner of Wednesday Family Night. The center of the evening is "Truth for Living," an adult discipleship class taught through expository preaching, paired with the FIYAH children's program and IMPACT Student Ministries for teens so the whole family can come on the same night. Nurseries are open during this hour for newborns through toddlers. A weekly bulletin is distributed to keep every age group on the same page, and the church podcast carries the most recent messages for those who miss the gathering.
A Children's Department Built by Color-Coded Rooms
The children's ministry is one of the most developed parts of the church. During the 10:30 AM Sunday service, nurseries care for infants and toddlers, a preschool class for three-year-olds meets in the Green Room, a four-year-old through kindergarten class meets in the Orange Room, and Junior Church for grades 1 through 5 meets in the Blue Room. Children in kindergarten through fifth grade start in the sanctuary with their families for worship and are dismissed after the music. All children must first stop at the Child Check-in area to be registered and matched with the right room.
On Wednesday nights at 6:30 PM, the FIYAH program takes over the same rooms with the same color scheme, broken into Sparklers (ages 3 to 4), Embers (kindergarten through 2nd grade), and Blazers (3rd through 6th grade). The Wednesday curriculum emphasizes Scripture memory, learning the books of the Bible, and applying lessons to daily life. Elizabeth Bracco serves as the Sunday Children's Director, with Loren and Carla Williams directing FIYAH.
IMPACT Student Ministries
IMPACT meets on Wednesday nights from 6:30 to 7:30 PM in the basement of the church and is led by Michael Keeton Jr., the Student Ministry Director. The group's stated vision is to see every young person become positive about God's love, persuaded that His way is the best way, passionate for Christ and His church, and prepared for life, relationships, service, and leadership. The four core values of Invest, Love, Prayer, and Mentoring shape how adult leaders spend time with the students, including one-on-one and small-group settings.
Worship That Stands on the Word
Erich Smith, who became the worship leader in 2017 after graduating from Lancaster Bible College, oversees a music ministry built around six commitments. Worship is described as God-Centered, Word-Saturated, Gospel-Focused, Heart-Oriented, Intentionally Diverse, and Musically Proficient. The "intentionally diverse" stance is the most distinctive: the church holds to the richness of historic hymnody while also embracing contemporary songs, aiming for music that is faithful to Scripture and intelligible to each generation. In addition to the Sunday morning team, a Youth Praise Band leads worship on Wednesday nights, and a Spotify playlist carries the songs that shape the gathered congregation.
Men, Women, and the Outdoors
Men's Ministry is organized around weekly rhythms rather than only annual events. Co-ed pickleball runs Tuesday and Friday nights at 7:00 PM in the gym, and men's volleyball meets Monday nights at 7:00 PM. The Men's Breakfast Fellowship gathers at the church's Family Life Center several Saturdays a year. Pastor Frank Marchiano oversees these connections, and a men's wilderness hike in Algonquin each summer has become a tradition of fellowship in creation.
Women's Ministry runs cardio drumming on the third Monday of each month, monthly ladies' hikes, and a children's playtime and moms' group for mothers with small children. The church also operates a Senior Ministry and a Young Adult Ministry. The College and Career group meets every other Friday at 6:30 PM for Bible study and fellowship, led by Matt and Bethany Wiberg, and is open to anyone eighteen and older.
A Helping Hand Food Pantry
Outreach to the broader Vineland community centers on the food pantry, known as A Helping Hand. It operates from the church facility the third Saturday of every month from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM, serving anyone who needs food assistance. Clients bring a valid photo ID and provide their address and phone number at each visit, and the pantry also connects with Cornerstone Women's Resource Center, a local pregnancy resource center. The church's open-book financial policy and the message that "people are most important" frame the pantry as an expression of welcome rather than a transaction.
Partners Across the Globe
Faith Bible supports more than a dozen missionary families and partner organizations. The list includes workers serving across fifty-eight villages in South Asia, Filipino police officers and prisoners, Ecuadorian church planters, Bible institute directors in Brazil and Chile, a couple serving Ukrainian refugees in Moldova, a media team reaching shut-ins in Japan, a church planter in Latin America, and a couple training internationals to plant house churches. The church also partners with the National Center for Life and Liberty on religious freedom and pro-life advocacy. Dave Redman oversees facilities and Kevin Hare oversees security, both of which free the church to host the missionaries who visit throughout the year. FaithBound Basketball League gives the gym another outreach use, inviting area youth and adults into the building for sport and connection.
What Faith Bible Believes
The Statement of Faith centers on the Bible as the verbally inspired, inerrant Word of God and on the historic Christian doctrines that flow from it. The church affirms one God in three persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - and the full deity and humanity of Jesus Christ, born of the Virgin Mary. Humans are created in God's image, fallen into sin, and in need of salvation through faith in Christ's substitutionary death and bodily resurrection.
The church practices two ordinances: believers' baptism by immersion and the Lord's Supper, both to be observed until Christ returns. Marriage is taught as a lifelong, monogamous, heterosexual union between one man and one woman, a gift from God that the church believes is the only context for human sexuality.
On last things, Faith Bible teaches the imminent rapture of the church, a seven-year tribulation, the physical return of Jesus Christ, a thousand-year reign on earth, the bodily resurrection of the just to eternal life, and the bodily resurrection of the lost to eternal conscious suffering. On spiritual gifts, the church teaches that sign gifts, including tongues, ceased as the New Testament canon was recognized, while the gifts of evangelist, pastor, and teacher continue for the equipping of the church.
Leadership and Pastoral Calling
Jason Parmer has served as Teaching Pastor since August 2004, after years in worship development and student ministry and a career in the health insurance industry. He holds an Associate of Science and a Bachelor of Science from Lancaster Bible College, and a Master of Arts in Theological Studies from Liberty University. He is also a credentialed chaplain who has served with the Vineland Police Department and the New Jersey State Police. His preaching style is described as clear, expository, and rooted in the text.
Frank Marchiano, Pastor of Outreach, leads evangelism and discipleship and joined the pastoral staff in March 2010. He was ordained at Faith Bible in October 2006, holds a Bachelor of Science in Bible from Philadelphia Biblical University (now Cairn University), and previously worked in the clothing industry and the New Jersey Department of Corrections. His family came to faith through the church's evangelistic ministry in the 1990s and have been members since September 1994, with his son Frank Jr. and daughter-in-law now serving as youth leaders in the teen ministry.
Giving, Communication, and the Church Center App
Online giving runs through the Church Center platform, with options for the general fund, giving by mail, or giving in person on Sunday mornings. The church emphasizes an open-book financial policy and stresses that people, not money, are the focus of ministry. Communication runs through a weekly bulletin, a podcast feed, a Word of the Day devotional, a YouTube channel, a Facebook page, and an Instagram account, and a smartphone app handles event registration, sign-ups, and giving.
Faith Bible Church describes itself as a caring community of believers deeply in love with God and His Word. Its services are built around unapologetic teaching of Scripture, and its ministries - from the color-coded children's department to the IMPACT youth ministry, the FIYAH midweek program, the food pantry, and a global missions network - point to a single goal. The phrase that runs through every ministry page is simple: equipping people to be like Jesus.