Meet Our Pastor

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Pastor Jon Allen was born in 1954 in Detroit, Michigan.  He was raised in both Garden City and Livonia where he graduated from Stevenson High School.  In 1975, he attended the Baptist Bible College in Springfield, Missouri, where he earned his graduate degree in Theology.  He continued his education and earned his bachelor's then master’s in Theology from the Peniel Baptist Seminary.  He married his high school sweetheart in 1974.  He and Nancy have been blessed with five children and nine grandchildren.
In the fall of 1965, Pastor Jon accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior praying with repentance and faith at his father’s bedside in their family home in Livonia.  He was called to minister at the Community Baptist Church in the fall of 1975. He was Assistant Pastor to his father Dr. James B. Allen who had a great 30 year pastorate at the Community Baptist Church.  In 1979 when his father retired, the Community Baptist Church voted in Pastor Allen as the third pastor of the church. God has given Pastor Jon 36 years of fruitful ministry.
Pastor says, "Thank God for His call, His people, and His work. May He richly bless our service to the King of Kings, Jesus Christ the Lord".

About Us

We teach and preach the plan of salvation from the King James Version of the Bible.  The Bible lays out God's plan of salvation so each of us can know where we will spend eternity.   If you would like to know Christ as your personal Savior, please read below and visit our church so you can fellowship with other christians and grow spiritually. 

(Romans 6:23) For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
(John 3:16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

(John 14:6) Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

(Ephesians 2:8) For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.
(Romans 10:13) For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

You can receive this free gift of eternal life by calling upon the name of the Lord Jesus and trusting Him as your personal Savior.