Calvary Preschool

Calvary Church with Pastor Skip Heitzig is an incredible place to worship and grow in faith. The teaching is solid, Bible-based, and easy to understand while still going deep into God’s Word. Pastor Skip has a unique way of explaining Scripture that makes it practical and relevant for everyday life. The worship is uplifting, the atmosphere is welcoming, and the church truly feels like a community where people are loved and encouraged. Whether you’re new to church or have been walking with Christ for years, Calvary Church is a place where you can learn, be challenged, and feel at home. Highly recommend Calvary Church to anyone looking for strong biblical teaching and a genuine Christian community. 🙏

We visited this church on a week day. All they wanted to talk about was the book store, coffee and all of their rules. We actually passed Skip while walking around the court yard. He did not even acknowledge us. How hard is it to say Hi! We had friends who had left there and advised us not to go. I understand why! That was the red flag for us to seek out a different church.

I attended your church a few months ago. I was excited to find a church with mass on Saturday night because it fit into my schedule. The service was about Jesus telling us to love our neighbors. Great message. But I was very put off by the pastor specifically pointing out drug addicts and gays. He spoke about both as if they were an “other” category, as if there was neither in the audience that night. According to God we are ALL sinners and no one sins is worse than another. The pastor’s message felt very excluding, judge mental, and hypocritical particularly when the theme was love. Needless to say, I will not be returning to your church. I felt compelled by God to write this review, I should have written it sooner. If your church or the pastors insist on thinking that God is against specific “sins” and not others then by all means continue. However, it might be best in the future to talk about them as people as that’s what they are first, and then to say that they are people that happen to be committing a “sin” second. Just as we are all sinners and happen to sin. We are not the sin itself. I know for a fact, based on statistics, that people in the audience happen to be gay, happen to be adulterers, happen to be sober or struggling with addiction, you may have even had felons in your audience. But just as Jesus died on the cross for ALL of our sins, we are all accepted into his house (ie Church). However, that is not the message I perceived from your pastor’s service. If people who commit two types of sins are not expected to be in attendance than maybe no one should be in attendance. This behavior is why so many people hate Christians. Because they come off as judgmental, hypocritical, and high and mighty. If Jesus were here today, he would be hanging out with said “sinners” and showering them with humility, and love. I don’t think he would be attending a church like this. I pray the pastors seeks to teach as Jesus did and maybe you will bring more people to God instead of driving them away. God is love and the message that night was not of love or of God.

If you’re looking for services that are very Bible heavy, go to the Wednesday service. It’s a Bible study that goes line by line throughout the Bible, a lot of the time it’s the Old Testament but Skip really focuses on historical and cultural contexts and ties it all in with the references and addresses to other scripture that’s mentioned. Skip can be a little into himself at times, but he’s also incredibly knowledgeable. I’ve learned so much at this church, it’s informed my faith in ways I could never have done on my own.

After being a member of Calvary Church of Albuquerque since 2000, I never imagined I’d be writing this. Yesterday, I called the church desperately seeking prayer for a friend in severe emotional distress. This wasn’t casual. This was urgent. The receptionist responded as if calling a church for prayer was unusual or inconvenient. I was told she would try to find someone and call me back. No one ever did. That silence spoke louder than anything else. In a moment when compassion, prayer, and presence should have been immediate, there was none. It forced me to ask a painful but honest question: What exactly is the purpose of this church? Calvary does nothing meaningful for the Albuquerque community or its long-time members when real needs arise. There is no follow-through, no care, no shepherding — just empty words. Resources and attention seem endlessly directed elsewhere, while the people right here, hurting and reaching out, are ignored. Because of this experience, my family and I will not be returning. After more than two decades, that decision is heartbreaking — but necessary. A church should be a place of refuge, prayer, and love. What I experienced was indifference. I hope leadership reflects deeply on this. People’s lives and faith are at stake.