Countryside Community Church
More About Us
Countryside Community Church held its first Sunday service on December 5, 2004, in the home of one of our founding members. Our first attendees shared a common desire and purpose: to be a new church family for lower Bucks County, meeting regularly to ...
• know, love and worship God according to His Word, the Bible, and through His Son, Jesus Christ,
• help and encourage each other as Christians, in becoming more like Jesus, and
• help each other reach out with the good news about Jesus to others who are still living without Him.
We are similar in our teachings and practices to many good Baptist churches, but we are not denominationally affiliated.
Click here for a brief Summary of Our Beliefs & Practices.
During the first six months, our new church was led by a membership-appointed council of seven of our founding men. Then in May, 2005, Mike Otto became Countryside’s Pastor.
Mike was ordained and began his pastoral ministry in 1969. He is a graduate of Florida Bible College (B.A.) and Dallas Theological Seminary (M.A.B.S.). Before serving at Countryside, he served on the staff of Florida Bible College, was a member of the Christian vocal band known as the Spokesmen, and was a youth pastor for some years in Florida and Pennsylvania. In 1977, Mike initiated and led in the planting of a new local church in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where he served as pastor for 27 years (until 2004). Pastor Mike and his wife, Kaye, live in Langhorne. Their daughter, Lauren, a graduate of Lancaster Bible College, serves vocationally as a children's ministry department director on the staff of a Lancaster County church.
To hear one of Pastor Mike's Sunday morning messages, Click Here.
Sunday Mornings at Countryside
Our Sundays begin at 9:00, with Sunday School classes for all ages, including an Adult Bible Fellowship, a youth Bible class, age-appropriate children's classes, and an infant-toddler Nursery. Before classes begin, some of our youth and adults stop by the refreshments table to pick up a cup of coffee, tea, or hot chocolate to take with them. 10:10-10:30 is a break and fellowship time, with coffee, tea and hot chocolate still being served.
Our Worship Service begins at 10:30, also with an infant-toddler Nursery provided. Older children (through Grade 6) sit with their parents during the musical, first part of the Worship Service, then, before the Pastor's message from God's Word, they are dismissed to go to a special Children’s Worship program. Visiting children may either sit with their parents for the remainder of the service, or join in with others their age for a great time of making new friends and age-appropriate worship and learning from God’s Word. Monthly, on the first Sunday, we share Communion in our morning service before the children are dismissed.
Our worship through music is a blending of traditional hymns and contemporary choruses. It is led by one of our men, Mark Hoeckele, who is assisted by a team of vocal and instrumental musicians.
It would be great to have you visit with us!
