What To Expect
What to Expect at Lantana Community Church?
Visiting a new church can feel intimidating—we get it! At Lantana, we want you to feel safe, seen, and free to be yourself as you grow toward God.
Sundays at 10:30AM
Join us in person or online (Facebook & YouTube). Parking is easy, handicap accessible, and yes—everything’s free!
Come As You Are
Jeans, shorts, ties, even pajama pants—we’ve seen it all. Bring your coffee, your kids, or just your whole, real self.
Warm Welcome
Expect a kind hello, hot coffee, and donuts when you walk in. Sit anywhere you'd like in our comfy chairs.
Kids Are Loved Here
Nursery is available for little ones, and most Sundays we offer Kids Church (ages 3–5th grade). On Family Worship Sundays, kids stay in service with fun activities provided.
Stay Connected
You’ll get a welcome card when you arrive—fill it out for a free gift after service!
LCC Staff
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Rev. Dr. Calvary Callender
Lead Pastor
Calvary Callender serves as the Lead Pastor of Lantana Community Church in Bartonville, Texas, where he ministers to the surrounding communities of Lantana, Argyle, Lewisville, and Flower Mound.
With over 25 years of pastoral experience—including 11 years in youth ministry and 8 years as Lead Pastor of Naz Family Church in Big Spring—Cal brings both depth and passion to his ministry.
He holds degrees from Southern Nazarene University (B.A. in Sociology), Northwest Nazarene University (M.A. in Religion, Spiritual Formation), and a Doctorate of Ministry in Intentional Leadership from Nazarene Theological Seminary.
Beyond his pastoral role, Cal loves being a husband to Ceresa and dad to Morgan, Matilyn, and Cayden. His heart is to build genuine community by living out the call to love God, love others, and serve the neighborhood.
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Rev. Bruno Ponce
Creative Arts Director
Bruno and Gabi were born and raised in Campinas, São Paulo. Gabi used to be a lawyer in Brazil and is currently seeking her Masters in Ministerial Leadership. Bruno first graduated with a degree in Physical Therapy in Brazil. Right after receiving this, God called him to ministry and he moved to Australia to get his ministerial degree at Hillsong Leadership College.
In 2018, during their first year of marriage, Bruno and Gabi were called to move to the USA to lead worship. Their first mission was in Lakeland, Florida, where they served together and embraced a new culture for 2 years. Now, God has placed them in Lantana, Texas, to continue their mission. They are very excited for what is to come and thankful to the community that is now part of their lives!
The desire of their hearts is to establish roots for their family to grow here and for the church and community to find a fountain of dreams that never cease! It’s only the beginning of great things!
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Angel Johnson
Childrens Pastor
Angel and her son Carter, moved to Texas from Louisiana in 2019. While Angel always felt a call towards children, she believed it would be fulfilled in an elementary school classroom. After high school, Angel began pursuing a degree in Elementary Education from the University of Louisiana Monroe.
In 2021, Angel would feel God shifting her direction and would feel led to serve in the children's ministry of her local church. Within a few months, she was leading students and volunteers of kidmin and coming alongside a different local church to launch a children's ministry program. By the end of the year, Angel was certain that God was calling her into full time ministry.
Angel is currently preparing to complete her degree in Elementary Education and working towards her local minister's license.
Angel is dedicated to equipping children and their families with the tools necessary to live a life fully surrendered to God and His will. She believes that all believers, especially children, can be met right where they are, and guided towards the Kingdom life they were always designed to live.
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Michael Preston
Youth Pastor
Michael and his wife Amanda got married and moved to Texas from California in December 2012. They currently live in Flower Mound and have two wonderful children, Emery and Harper.
Michael has served the Church of the Nazarene both in youth and worship ministry. While pursuing a career in nursing, Michael felt a call to full-time youth ministry. He received his local ministers license in April 2018 and is currently working towards Ordination.
Michael has a passion for youth ministry and creating faith-based relationships with students so that the love of God flows through each of them like WILDFIRE. His mission and vision for our youth is to encourage Christ-centered conversations and discussions so that each student feels empowered to share the gospel with others!
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Antonio Cerqueira
Carlinhos was born and raised in Bahia, Brazil, and now serves in Lantana, Texas, alongside his wife, Tay, and their children, Julia and Levi. He holds degrees in Business Administration and Telecommunications and trained in Pastoral Ministry at Christ for the Nations Seminary.
With over 34 years of ministry experience, Carlinhos has served in many roles including youth leader, Sunday school teacher, worship leader, and pastor. Before moving to the U.S., he ministered for 16 years in the Baptist Church of Bahia, where he helped develop a thriving couples ministry. Today, he leads and equips the Hispanic community at LCC with a passion for seeing lives transformed by the gospel.
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Deanna Powell
Office Manager
Deanna Powell has been faithfully serving at Lantana Community Church since August 2020. She first joined the team when Harvest Christian Academy Lantana opened its campus and has since become an integral part of both the church and school communities. Deanna currently serves as the church secretary for LCC and the office manager for Harvest Lantana, where she provides essential administrative support to pastors, members, visitors, teachers and school administration.
A lifelong Texan, Deanna deeply values her roots and the close-knit bond she shares with her family. She is the proud mother of two grown sons who live nearby, and she cherishes every moment spent with her beloved grandchildren. With a heart for service and a gift for organization, Deanna is committed to creating a welcoming and efficient environment where ministry can flourish and God’s love can be experienced by all who walk through the doors
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We are a sent people, responding to the call of Christ and empowered by the Holy Spirit to go into all the world, witnessing to the Lordship of Christ and participating with God in the building of the Church and the extension of His kingdom (Matthew 28:19-20; 2 Corinthians 6:1).
Our mission begins in worship, ministers to the world in evangelism and compassion, encourages believers toward Christian maturity through discipleship, and prepares women and men for Christian service through Christian higher education.
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As members of the Church Universal, we join with all true believers in proclaiming the Lordship of Jesus Christ and in affirming the historic Trinitarian creeds and beliefs of the Christian faith. We value our Wesleyan-Holiness heritage and believe it to be a way of understanding the faith that is true to Scripture, reason, tradition, and experience.
We are united with all believers in proclaiming the Lordship of Jesus Christ. We believe that in divine love God offers to all people forgiveness of sins and restored relationship. In being reconciled to God, we believe that we are also to be reconciled to one another, loving each other as we have been loved by God and forgiving each other as we have been forgiven by God. We believe that our life together is to exemplify the character of Christ. We look to Scripture as the primary source of spiritual truth confirmed by reason, tradition, and experience.
Jesus Christ is the Lord of the Church, which, as the Nicene Creed tells us, is one, holy, universal, and apostolic. In Jesus Christ and through the Holy Spirit, God the Father offers forgiveness of sin and reconciliation to all the world. Those who respond to God’s offer in faith become the people of God. Having been forgiven and reconciled in Christ, we forgive and are reconciled to one another. In this way, we are Christ’s Church and Body and reveal the unity of that Body. As the one Body of Christ, we have “one Lord, one faith, one baptism.” We affirm the unity of Christ’s Church and strive in all things to preserve it.
(Ephesians 4:5, 3).
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God, who is holy, calls us to a life of holiness. We believe that the Holy Spirit seeks to do in us a second work of grace, called by various terms including "entire sanctification" and "baptism with the Holy Spirit"-cleansing us from all sin, renewing us in the image of God, empowering us to love God with our whole heart, soul, mind, and strength, and our neighbors as ourselves, and producing in us the character of Christ. Holiness in the life of believers is most clearly understood as Christlikeness.
Because we are called by Scripture and drawn by grace to worship God and to love Him with our whole heart, soul, mind, and strength, and our neighbors as ourselves, we commit ourselves fully and completely to God, believing that we can be "sanctified wholly," as a second crisis experience. We believe that the Holy Spirit convicts, cleanses, fills, and empowers us as the grace of God transforms us day by day into a people of love, spiritual discipline, ethical and moral purity, compassion, and justice. It is the work of the Holy Spirit that restores us in the image of God and produces in us the character of Christ.
We believe in God the Father, the Creator, who calls into being what does not exist. We once were not, but God called us into being, made us for himself, and fashioned us in His own image. We have been commissioned to bear the image of God: "I am the LORD . . . your God; therefore be holy, because I am holy" (Leviticus 11:44).