Our Mission

That we might by all means save some

Why Plant another church in the Hot Springs Village area?

The typical response when presented to some is, “we have 20 churches in the Village, why would we need another one?” 
1. Why have another child, if you have one, two or three? There is always joy when a child is born. When my first daughter was born, my pastor preached a sermon with these points. I think this could apply here. The points were: The Child is Free, The Father is Glad and the People Rejoice!


2. Church studies have revealed that more people are reached in new churches than in established churches. In fact, planting churches is the new frontier of evangelism. It could be that there is less red tape to get things done, or just the fact that the people who would go with a new church plant would have a pioneering spirit and would be more likely to reach out. 


3. The sending church typically benefits from God’s blessing for giving financially and potential members to the new church. Beside the idea of a benefit of giving, the sending church is put in a position to re-group, bring new leaders forward and the excitement of planting a church spills over into the sending church. 
4. It has been said that as many as half of the Village is unreached. Meaning, there are as many as 7,000 people locally that do not attend church or maybe even claim to be a believer. We know from our experience at VBC that many who are affiliated with our church do not attend regularly. Looks like there is still plenty of work to be done. 


5.We are looking to start the church outside the west gate. The thought is to reach the Village as well as out in the county. People who live in the Village will come outside the gate, but for people who live outside the Village, it can be a barrier for them. This will give us a wider area for outreach. 

Pastor Levan Hubbard 

Pastor Levan Hubbard has been in ministry for 40 years. He has served as lead pastor in churches in Arkansas and in Texas. He has also served as worship pastor and in youth ministry. He is an experienced church planter. Having voluntarily , under the Lord’s direction, moved to Portland, Oregon to help plant a church there. He also was the lead church planter in Maumelle, Arkansas. Most recently he has served Village Bible Church in Hot Springs Village for the last 17 years. There he served as administrator, worship pastor and pastoral Care. Part of his responsibility was to plan, produce and conduct an annual Christmas concert that has been a tradition in the Village for over 30 years. Levan created and produced two Easter services at the Woodlands Auditorium which 800 people attended. 

Levan started singing when he was 6 years old and has continued to develop his talent and use it for the Lord’s work. He holds a BA from Arkansas Tech in music education. He enjoys performing with Premier Sound, a local trio, in churches and venues around the state. He is also a member of the Arkansas Master’singers, a two hundred voice choir that offers nights of worship around in churches in Arkansas. 

He has three grown children. Two daughters who live in New York City. One ministers to international students at NYU and the other to special needs students. He has a son who is a Missionary to Tokyo, Japan. He has five grand children and another one on the way in May. 

From a young age he started painting houses and accumulated carpentry and fix-it skills over the years. He has been a contractor at different times using his building knowledge to make a living. He also served as general contractor for a building addition to one of the churches where he served as well as designing and overseeing the building of a church complex at another pastorate. 

He looks forward to this new endeavor and is thankful for the opportunity to use all of his skills and experience to plant a great church in the Hot Springs Village area. 

EFCA Statement of Faith
The Evangelical Free Church of America 

We believe in one God, Creator of all things, holy, infinitely perfect, and eternally existing in a loving unity of three equally divine Persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Having limitless knowledge and sovereign power, God has graciously purposed from eternity to redeem a people for Himself and to make all things new for His own glory.

We believe that God has spoken in the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, through the words of human authors. As the verbally inspired Word of God, the Bible is without error in the original writings, the complete revelation of His will for salvation, and the ultimate authority by which every realm of human knowledge and endeavor should be judged. Therefore, it is to be believed in all that it teaches, obeyed in all that it requires, and trusted in all that it promises.

We believe that God created Adam and Eve in His image, but they sinned when tempted by Satan. In union with Adam, human beings are sinners by nature and by choice, alienated from God, and under His wrath. Only through God’s saving work in Jesus Christ can we be rescued, reconciled and renewed.

We believe that Jesus Christ is God incarnate, fully God and fully man, one Person in two natures. Jesus—Israel's promised Messiah—was conceived through the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. He lived a sinless life, was crucified under Pontius Pilate, arose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father as our High Priest and Advocate. We believe that Jesus Christ, as our representative and substitute, shed His blood on the cross as the perfect, all-sufficient sacrifice for our sins. His atoning death and victorious resurrection constitute the only ground for salvation.

We believe that the Holy Spirit, in all that He does, glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ. He convicts the world of its guilt. He regenerates sinners, and in Him they are baptized into union with Christ and adopted as heirs in the family of God. He also indwells, illuminates, guides, equips and empowers believers for Christ-like living and service.

We believe that the true church comprises all who have been justified by God's grace through faith alone in Christ alone. They are united by the Holy Spirit in the body of Christ, of which He is the Head. The true church is manifest in local churches, whose membership should be composed only of believers. The Lord Jesus mandated two ordinances, baptism and the Lord’s Supper, which visibly and tangibly express the gospel. Though they are not the means of salvation, when celebrated by the church in genuine faith, these ordinances confirm and nourish the believer.

We believe that God's justifying grace must not be separated from His sanctifying power and purpose. God commands us to love Him supremely and others sacrificially, and to live out our faith with care for one another, compassion toward the poor and justice for the oppressed. With God’s Word, the Spirit’s power, and fervent prayer in Christ’s name, we are to combat the spiritual forces of evil. In obedience to Christ’s commission, we are to make disciples among all people, always bearing witness to the gospel in word and deed.

We believe in the personal, bodily and glorious return of our Lord Jesus Christ. The coming of Christ, at a time known only to God, demands constant expectancy and, as our blessed hope, motivates the believer to godly living, sacrificial service and energetic mission.

We believe that God commands everyone everywhere to believe the gospel by turning to Him in repentance and receiving the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe that God will raise the dead bodily and judge the world, assigning the unbeliever to condemnation and eternal conscious punishment and the believer to eternal blessedness and joy with the Lord in the new heaven and the new earth, to the praise of His glorious grace. Amen.

Our Location

We are directly behind BrookShires, right outside the Hot Springs Village entrance.