Calvary Chapel of Oxnard

I absolutely love this church! I love Pastor Lance and the way he delivers the Lord’s message each week. Everyone is so friendly and it feels like family. I love the music and the praise we all give to the Lord. When I first started going to this church, which is nondenominational, I was shy about singing. I grew up catholic and only have gone to catholic masses. I now love singing and love being a part of this fellowship. I couldn’t keep my beautiful voice to myself ;) haha jk. Luckily everyone else’s singing helps me to blend in.

Highly disappointed, check in was a long process for 3 kids, didn’t have enough volunteers to handle our two youngest, constantly trying to move us to the video feed room until they got more volunteers, sat in back row– which we were told to, usher told us we were sitting in ushers seats? When we had been placed there to begin with, we missed worship, missed parts of service with all the interruptions, couldn’t drink coffee in service, totally not worth it. We left and went to a different church which was completely and 100 percent better. Also, the sermon left out some really important parts of the scripture. Highly recommend finding another church to everyone i could tell!

To make it fair. We stayed as long as we could. We were not impressed! After reading other reviews we were excited to go to the church with our family of 5 since we had just moved to the area. When we arrived not a single person greeted us although we got many stares.
We tried to check our children in and not a single person would offer to help us. Finally we discovered where the check in place was at and then it took 20 minutes to check our children in. We missed most of worship and upon checkin were told that the toddlers children’s area was at capacity so we could go to a closed room video feed upstairs. We asked if we could just go into worship with our 1 yr old twins who were very well behaved. 3 times we were told by ushers that we could go to the video room. We finally got through that we really wanted to be «in» worship service.
We were offered by an usher to sit on the back row so that we could tend to our children if necessary. The Usher for this area during greeting time, came over to me and again told me about the video room. He then informed me that, «.for future reference, the back row is for ushers.» Then again informed my wife after she came in with a cup of coffee that she couldn’t drink it in the sanctuary.
When she returned to the sanctuary (after checking our children in since we were informed that they now had enough childcare people) she mentioned to the usher that we were offered to sit here by one of their ushers. We asked if we could continue to sit here.
All in all, as a minister myself, I won’t be attending this church again anytime soon. The very message being presented did not line up with the way we were treated.
This church has a lot of growing to go. They need to update building, content and the way they treat newcomers. Leaving now and headed to a different church.

We vacation in Ventura but we also like to go to church while staying there. We tried many churches in the area but nothing was fullfiling. Something was missing. And then, lo and behold, we found Calvary Chapel of Oxnard. It was a gift from the LORD, I must say. Pastor Lance is teaching book by book, chapter by chapter, verse by verse, leaving NOTHING out, whether it’s good or bad. He believes he needs to talk about everything in the Bible and not to leave out something to «please» the people. There is NO compromise but instead there is HEALTHY teaching. The worship is out of this world. The people of all colors mix in makes my heart glad. You want to go to church when you’re on your vacation around there? I HIGHLY recomend CCO. Do you live in Ventura/​Oxnard area? I HIGHLY recommend CCO. Do you want to grow in the Word? Go to CCO. Do you want a pastor who cares? Pastor Lance is a shepherd who cincerely LOVES his flock and protects them. A man who fears The LORD. PERIOD.

This is an awesome church group! The people are very friendly, warm and helpful. Pastor Lance is a wonderful teacher that gives a sound, Biblical lessons, helps you to understand the Bible and makes it applicable to us today. I have been extremely grateful to be part of this church and to call it home.

When I first moved to Oxnard over 16 years ago now, I looked and looked for decent, alive, healthy, bible teaching church that acknowledged God The Holy Spirit’s work in all its affairs and that of it’s members. I literally visited every Christian church this side of the Camarillo grade. (i.e. that was within driving distance) When I came to Calvary Chapel of Oxnard for the first time, after realizing that they teach through the bible «verse by verse» I came to the erroneous conclusion that The man at the pulpit could not possibly preach a heart-​wrenching sermon that he received from God only after he had sought out and discovered The Lords Will, through agonizing prayer and searching for the need of the people. How could he? It was already «pre-​planned» what the message would be about, right? WRONG! Well, that was my first visit… a few months later, not realizing the when or the why, and still being church «homeless», I returned. Not only was it the MOST God anointed message I have ever heard preached, They «just happened» to be on Genesis 1:1. (The first verse of the bible for those who aren’t aware) As I sat there, I realized that if I simply stayed, in about 8 years, I would have had the pleasure of hearing the entire bible preached. So I stayed. And the main reason I stayed, is that God spoke to me, and told me I was home. And truly I was. over the years I have found Pastor Lance to be genuinely warm, and outstandingly wise and godly man of God. (and believe me, I had set higher expectations for a mere man, than I humanly had a right to) And he consistently preaches God’s will and hits the nail on the head every time. I have found the people of the church to be warm, friendly, generous, and kind. And most importantly, the first year I was there, I grew more in my spiritual life than in 10 years at another church. Whether or not that was the church, or whether it was because I challenged myself to meet the expectations I put on others, and was willing to be tried and tested over and over again, I don’t know. All I know is my life got much better there. Its been many years, but I still call Calvary Chapel of Oxnard home. I don’t get around as well as I used to, but I still serve and fellowship when and where I can. If you are reading this, maybe you are searching. I encourage you to give them a chance. Mostly, give God a chance and see if He speaks to you there. and if He does, then stay.