Welcome to Christus Victor!

Thanks for stopping by! Christus Victor Lutheran Church is a Christ and Bible centered community of believers in Fayetteville. We are an affiliate congregation of the American Association of Lutheran Churches (taalc.org) and maintain an established pulpit and altar fellowship with the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LC-MS). Take a look around. We’re glad you found us!

We are a community of God’s people; called, sustained, and empowered by the Holy Spirit through Word and Sacrament. As the body of Christ, we are obedient to Him, who is the Head, in proclaiming the kingdom of God both in words and actions.

We exist to encourage each other to grow in Christ. Through sharing the Gospel with all people. Through providing a fellowship for all Christian believers by maintaining a biblically focused Christian atmosphere by serving God and others.

Our Pastor

Pastor Joe Christina is a native of Chicagoland. He is married to the drop-dead gorgeous Nurse and he is told that he has three or four children that live under his roof and eat his food.

He is the proud father to two guinea pigs, one ball python, two three idiot dogs and three amazing cats.

He is a graduate of Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary and his interests include metal, Nintendo, and Vietnam to modern era fighter aircraft. He unapologetically wears shoes on the beach and is proud to call Cumberland County home!

The History of Christus Victor

Christus Victor Lutheran Church of Fayetteville NC held its first worship service in an old store front on November 18, 1962 with ten charter families. It has grown from those early years to a present membership of 258 people. Ft. Bragg Army base is located just outside of Fayetteville, NC. This means that over half of our congregation is made up of retired or active military.

Christian Education has played a large part in this church’s ministry. In March of 1963 the church began its first Catechism classes. In July of 1995 the congregation began groundbreaking for a new educational unit. Our current building was completed and dedicated in September of 1996. Ten years later the church added on a narthex and two years after that a playground.

Like so many other churches, these additions were to aid the ministry of the church. It is very difficult to do ministry without having the facility to make it happen. We have over the years upgraded our PA system so it is both audio and video. We video record each of our Sunday morning services broadcasting them into the nursery and narthex. We also make the recordings available on our church web site and send them to our deployed men and women overseas. We have a children’s message each Sunday which helps the younger members of our church better connect with what is taking place in the service.

The youth group is very active, between 15 and 25 young people go on a mission trip each summer. The youth conduct worship once a year, serve a valentines dinner, help with VBS and take part in other ministries within the church and the surrounding community. The VBS summer ministry attracts about 75 young people and helpers.

Our faith and ministry as a church is centered on the Word of God. Because of this strong belief we found it necessary in November of 2010 to look at our relationship to our parent church. The ELCA in our opinion was becoming more and more liberal in its use and interpretation of scripture. Therefore we felt compelled by our faith and understanding of scripture to seek a denomination that was more in line with our church theologically and biblically. On February 28, 2011 we took our final vote to disaffiliate with the ELCA and join the AALC.