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Address from Pastor Walton
Dear Members and Visitors to our Website:
Lenten Blessings to All…
Thank you for clicking on our Website. Calvary is a 130-year-old predominantly Black/African American Baptist church located in one of the ‘hoods of Milwaukee that still believes God cares.
As pastor and people, we believe that God cares about people. We believe that God cares about families. We believe that God cares about all ethnicities and societies and is not offended when ethnic cultures celebrate who they are in Christ Jesus. For example, I was not born a Christian. I was born a black boy in America. I learned about Jesus from my parents and family and accepted Him in a particular context, which, for me, happened to be Black and Baptist. We welcome all ethnicities, but our predominantly Black. As Milwaukee’s oldest Black Baptist Church (1895), that is our DNA.
Along with all other Christian communities, we believe that Jesus died, rose, and is coming back for His church - those who accept Him as Lord and Savior of their lives, regardless of ethnic background.
What fuels us? We are a biblically based church who loves Jesus and believes in Christian discipleship. We believe that Jesus is the sole way to the salvation of the soul. We also believe that Jesus wants us to be His disciples. Church membership and discipleship is not synonymous. Church membership is not salvation. Water Baptism is not salvation. Salvation is accepting Jesus, and discipleship is following Jesus daily. It’s that simple.
During Lent, we pause to walk with Jesus to Calvary. Resurrection Sunday (also known as Easter) takes on added significance when Lent is observed. So, please keep clicking on our site and, when you are able, join us in person for Worship. We would love to host you for Church School at 8:15 am; Worship at 9:30 am. Youth Church is 2nd and 4th Sundays.
As we walk with our Savior to Calvary, where He died for us, may we confess and repent of our sins so that Jesus Christ will be ever more alive in our personal and familial lives as His disciples.
On the Way to Calvary,
The Reverend Dr. John Richard Walton, Jr., D.Min, Senior Pastor
Calvary Baptist Church of Milwaukee
Reverend Dr. John Richard Walton, Jr.
The Reverend Doctor John Richard Walton, Jr. is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, and has served as the senior pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church of Milwaukee for the last 22 years. Pastor Walton is well-respected and sought after as preacher, pastor to pastors, lecturer, and spiritual, biblical, and academic authority in the training and discipleship of deacons and church leadership.
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February 2026 Focus:
Preparing To Persevere By Building Up Spiritual Stamina through Prayer
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Dear Calvary Members and Friends,
Let us pray with confidence and boldness knowing that He hears and is faithful.
Dear God our Father,
How excellent is Thy Name in all the earth. We praise and glorify Your Name because You are our God, our Heavenly Father, Rock, and Fortress. We are fortunate and blessed to have a Father who loves us so much that He saved and redeemed us for Himself through the Blood of His Son, Jesus. Lead us to spend time just basking in Your Presence and Your Love. Lead us in faith to make a daily and disciplined commitment to share with You our many thoughts, wants, worries, concerns, victories, and everything. Help us to realize that when we exercise this commitment to spend time in communion with You through Your Word and prayer that we are making a commitment to ourselves, to our peace, to our happiness, to our joy, to our success, to our victories, even in the face of the most difficult situations. Order our steps as we “rejoice in hope in You, are patient in affliction, and are constant in our prayers to You.” As we seek to honor You through our work, service, and worship, we know that the enemy will try to derail us through intimidation that might hurt, overwhelm, or insult us. As we pray this prayer, build up a wall of spiritual stamina that will surround us and uphold us in the face of the enemy’s tactics, so we may continue the work You have for us to do. Steer us around the pitfalls and snares thrown in our paths and help us to encourage ourselves through an active and vibrant prayer life with You. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.
Good Evening Abba Father,
We are so blessed to be able to unwind and refresh ourselves in prayer and have You to help us make sense of our day. Thank You for the many gifts and grace that You extended to us throughout this day. Renew our minds by reminding us of the blessings that You showered on us. Bring in our wandering minds from all the things that battle for our attention like what went right, what didn’t go right or what we would have preferred, so we can focus on the fact that we were always in Your Presence and under Your protection all day long. Forgive us when we reach out to everyone else first to share the contents of our day and fail to come to You, the one who knows and loves us best. We open our hearts to You and ask that Your Holy Spirit would lead us to contentment in You in all circumstances. Remind us in our spirit that spending time in prayer with You is the most beneficial activity we can participate in. Thank You that prayer time is a form of worship where we can admit and express our total dependence and need for You. In confidence, we can bring our weaknesses, strengths, trials, and temptations to You in prayer not in shame, pride or disgrace but in faith and love knowing that You are all powerful and want to hear from us no matter what. Let this reassure us and fortify our faith to persevere as soldiers in the army of the Lord with the call to use our very lives as living sacrifices wholly and pleasing to You. In His matchless Name we pray, Amen.
