Faith Baptist Church

I'm glad my family stumbled across Faith Baptist while looking in the yellow pages! There is no doubt God led my family there, and I am so glad He did. I love the fact that my parents are active and my brothers and sisters are so involved. There is no church I would rather be a part of! With my dad being overseas on a regular basis, I know there are people looking out for my mom and family, it is a great church home! There are tons of great people, I love the staff, and I love Preacher tremendously. If you're looking for a place to raise your family and get involved, I highly recommend FBC Wildomar.

Pat Cook

Posted 12/02/09 | Report Abuse

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I have not been there since 1991, but I know the Preacher is the same as he was in1982 when I first went to fbc, He and his wife love people, and want what is best for them. people have a right to say what they want to say, but the truth will always come out, and Pastor Goddard is a man of God and since starting fbc he has not changed, but has grown as the church has grown, and the people there have grown, many who have been there from the start. I wish the best for them and still pray for them as I was taugth from a man of God.

Posted 11/17/09 | Report Abuse

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I don't understand some people... how can you look at a church like this and say they are bad? I do not attend this church, but one of like faith, and I simply love it. Every year since I was in 7th grade I have attended their Ladies' Conference and every year I am greatly blessed by it. I know many others who have also been blessed. God is truly in this place. I admit it is not perfect, but show me one place on this planet that is! Everybody makes mistakes once in a while, but this church at least knows when it does and strives to correct their wrongs. The point of Faith Baptist Church is to learn to get closer to God and to learn to minister to others so they can know and love God. I have never once heard Pastor Goddard admit to be a perfect man with a perfect church. He is nothing but a good man who is striving to live right. If you are looking for a good church to attend, this is definitely one to check out. If you don't like it and choose to attend another church, I promise, nobody will get offended! :)

Posted 09/01/09 | Report Abuse

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Beware....its a trap! If you get swallowed by this place you will become a robot. At first you feel the "love" but eventually you will lose sight of what a walk with Christ.

Posted 08/09/09 | Report Abuse

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I have been attending faith baptist church for 7 years now and my family and i love it there!! it is truly a place that has been blessed by the Lord and He is alive and doing great things through the people at Faith Baptist. I looked for years on and off for a church with good old fashioned preaching and values that this country was built on. Our country was blessed by God and built by Godly people and for people to say that they just do not believe the rules should be so strict, are fools and are the reason why our country and Christianity is suffering in today's world. Faith Baptist Church is a church for the people, it does nothing but serve others as God has commanded. Pastor Goddard is the most dynamic preacher I have ever met and we love him very much. He preaches the truth and some people can't handle that because it is not warm and fuzzy. The whole Bible is filled with trials. To be a Christian is to be persecuted sometimes and not all sugar and spice!! I thank God for sending us Pastor Goddard. God Bless all. Joseph grimes

Posted 03/10/09 | Report Abuse

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I've attended this church since i was in 5Th grade. I don't understand why people criticize this place so much because it is truly a house of God. My preacher is a man of God. We don't think that we are perfect. You don't have to do it "our way", because we don't have a certain way to do things. All of my convictions and standards have been taught to me out of the bible. I'm in 11Th grade now, and I can't imagine what would have happened to me if the Lord didn't send me to Faith Baptist Church. We have a wonderful Youth Pastor that cares about us a lot. It breaks his heart when we are suffering. I've been in 7 different Sunday schools and all of the teachers have visited me. Even when I had visiting of my own to do my teachers still came to my house. My best friends are at this church and my life has been influenced for God because of this place.Show me another church in this area that has 50+ students in bible college ready to serve God. Are a place where teenagers are living for God and are truly happy. If you're looking for a wonderful church that loves God then Faith Baptist is for you.

Posted 02/27/09 | Report Abuse

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Wow! I was checking out the web to see if FBC had a web site yet:) and I came across this "review". I was never a member of FBC but attended the church many times and spent time with the pastors daughter and her family, I lived about 45 min away and was not able to always find a ride. It was one of the most influential times in my life. If ever any one asks is there any preachers families who still show love,their kids are not all messed up and worldly, and have good biblical standards? My mind brings be back to the Goddard family, and FBC. They loved me in spite of my awkward family situation that I had no way of controlling. They also showed the same love and respect toward my parents and brother. To have a church that loving, big, and most importantly biblically correct in CALIFORNIA!!! is nothing less then the power of God! It's sad to see these people who were members for so long that decided to bash such a wonderful work of God. I suggest maybe not judging their "rules" and "standards" and read the one and ONLY standard any Christian should have Gods Word, and see what is says about "rules" and "standards" if that what you call the Holy Bible(KJV).

Posted 02/24/09 | Report Abuse

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As I read through some of the reviews on this web site there is a lot of verbiage about children and how we love children and all we have done for children.
I am not a man of many words and don't believe in saying something if its not worth saying so I'll give you some simple numbers and some simple observations and you draw whatever conclusions you may.

I have six children that attended Sunday school classes at FBC for a combined 44 years (all of them a minimum of 6 years each)
I have had 3 Sunday school teachers visit my children, ever, out of a potential 44 teachers.
I have 3 children that never had a visit from a Sunday school teacher.
I personally do not know more than 3 or 4 of those that taught my children in Sunday school.
My children #s 1 through 4 all ceased to attend Sunday school classes and attended adult services with me.
The same 4 have all graduated high school and will not go to church at FBC.
Absolutely no friends at FBC of any of my children.
Just recently child #5 has asked not to go back to her Sunday school classes.
Whenever my children were in church I was there also, so these were not drop ins.

Assumption? If all the rules and guidelines for teachers at FBC were being followed the above is statistically impossible! Therefore the assumption needs to change for the results to be this bad. New assumption? Rules and guidelines for FBC teachers are RARELY followed. This will produce the above results
Tell me what does the math say? Where do I take my children to church if we believe the same as you but for whatever reason my children are ostracized and left alone?or, is this all a show and no go organization? The staff of FBC really is not in touch with what is really happening there! Is there discrimination? Same age children going to different classes with different teachers for observed different reasons?
I can go on but I do believe the above speaks for itself and in closing, I attended for 10 years and had visits from only 2 of my Sunday school teachers and the one I sat under the most during that period has never seen me outside the church!
Does not all this go against the teaching in LUKE 18:16? I don't know about others that may read this but I was raised to believe that the worst thing a Christian could do was discourage or cause his little ones to turn from him.

Posted 01/19/09 | Report Abuse

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Wow this a tough one. I attended FBC for 16yrs. Let me start off by saying that it is refreshing to see a place where you can get some accuracy of how things are and work at FBC. There are alot of wonderful people there who are yearning for right things. I think the most accurate statement about FBC would be tent time and thereafter time. As a person who has intimate knowledge of many things I wish to clarify some of the good and bad you see on here today. Bro Hyles always said "Use your church to build your people, not your people to build your church." During the early years and tent years this statement was followed and adhered to and it turned out many good young people with proper motives and good hearts for serving the Lord. Personally when I was in college myself and another young man were home for the summer working on summer staff. We were riding with Pastor Goddard and he was talking and teaching us some things. My friend asked him this question, "Preacher how come you don't come and preach at HAC and go to other churches and preach much." His response was tremendous. He said "God didn't call me to travel around and speak at conferences with a bunch of hoopla, he called me to love my people inWildomar." He was right. A few years later we all graduated and alot of us went back to Wildomar to serve at our church. During those few years Preacher became famous for sticking it out in the tent and began preaching out of town on occasian, then more often, and then he began going to conferences and preaching all due to his becoming infamous with our tent. It was during this time I started noticing him change with demeanor, speaking to people, preaching from the pulpit, and many other little things most people would not notice. He really began pushing for a building and we finaly did get one. Once in the building I really started noticing a big difference in his style of preaching. There were more Goddardisms, more home divisive statements being made, more demanding statements, more controlling type statements such as "We are doing Such and such if you want to be a part then you need to do this or that." Not bad statements just tiny suttle changes in methods of verbaly delivering opportunities to serve. Eventualy the asking people to help stopped and the demanding and verbal degrading took over. Example... "We are doing this thing and we want you to be apart of it, and if you dont want to be, thats ok maybe this just isn't the right church for you." Doesn't exactly sound like the type of statement that makes you feel like your accepted no matter what, does it." There were continuous phrases and statements made like that on a regular basis. The preaching became very husband and wife devisive instead of cohesive. Example "You men if your not doing BLANK or being BLANK then your not a good husband and your wife ought to go find a man," Well unfortunately statements like that made over the years and the constant pressure to mold into what their standard of excellance was, caused a major rupture in our chuch within our core group of families starting in about 2001. The husband was no longer in charge of many families because he didnt adhear to pastors every little standard and alot of the women obeyed preacher rather than their own husband like the bible says they are supposed to. I personaly know of over 20 core families that were wrecked and ruined and ended in divorce, including staff members families. I know factualy that advice was given on numerous occasions to wives to forget what your husband says in a particular matter, do what we tell you to do because its the right thing to do.
As I was looking at these paragraphs reading them I noticed all the praise ones came from new, recent members who are all young. I will say for over 10 years I thought that FBC could do no wrong but I was wrong. Someone mentioned that eventualy your heart will be crushed going here, and that is a acurate statement.
Hannah if you read this I want to personaly say something to you. I love your father, and i know he loves God and truly wants what is right for his people. I've known you since you were 4 years old and you have been an exemplary young women all these years. The reason some of us don't put our names on here is to protect you, Josh, Esther and Josiah. When you get older you will understand what I mean. Some of us were your teachers growing up and we dont want to hurt you guys because we love you. At the same time we have to tell the truth about certain things.
The jist of the story is this, Preacher began believing all this hype about himself and began using his people to build his church. wether he realizes it or not, that is what he did. If FBC is ever to regain its love for people that it had in the tent years then a adjustment from the top needs to be made.

Posted 01/06/09 | Report Abuse

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What a wonderful church! My husband and I have been coming to this church for a year and a half and we absolutely love it. We were looking for a church who teaches the word of God without all of the religious "fluff" and we are so blessed to have found it. Pastor Goddard's preaching is straight forward from the bible and has allowed our family to grow in our walk with the lord in leaps and bounds. The staff and congregation is so welcoming and accepting of all who enter their door. We have felt welcome since day one and have come to love the teaching, guidance and relationships that we have established there. No matter where you are in your walk with the lord, this church is the place to be. You'll be glad you came! God Bless!Julie M.

Posted 10/22/08 | Report Abuse

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I love going here. The people are friendly and caring. The Pastor takes time to get to know you, and even calls you back if you have a need. The music and messages motivate you to live for Christ. The church seems to love you for who you are, not for what you can do or be for them. I have been in many different churches over the years, and never found one like this. This is what church is supposed to be like!
The church seems to reach out to a lot of different kinds of people. They have a deaf ministry, Spanish language ministry, and a great teen program, among other things. I am thankful God led our family here.

Posted 10/16/08 | Report Abuse

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i love faith baptist church because it tought me how to love. how got started going to this church was mr. beavers was out soul winning and invited my family to church one day so my family visited the church my dad wasn't to interested in going to much church so the bus ministery picked me and my sister up every sunday i remember started going to the the church over of catt road before they went to walnut st. the church was like a second family. i went through the youth group and the academy now i raise my son up in church.

Posted 09/29/08 | Report Abuse

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I am sorry to hear that there are those who could attend this great church for so many years & never catch the purpose of being there...to serve God. It saddens me that something could happen to cause one to loose their focus & forget that it's not about Bro. so & so or what they did or said, but it's about Jesus. I was 15 years old, & a gang banger from L.A. when I had the opportunity to meet Pastor Goddard. Thank God he loved me enough to take me under his wing & introduce me to a book that could wash my brain & my heart! I didn't understand why I needed to cut my hair or why I needed to go to church three times a week, but I did it, because that is what was shown to me from the Bible. If this type of brainwashing is causing the bitterness in your heart, just remember what led you to Faith Baptist Church to begin with & why you felt the need to keep going back week after week. What changed?, the Bible didn't!, God hasn't & neither has Pastor Goddard!. It's OK to go through hard times, don't quit, try to remember where the best times of you life were spent...it was probably while you were busy serving the Lord at Faith Baptist Church. May you find the peace of God in your life again. God bless you.

Thank you Preacher, Staff & Faith Baptist Church members for your investment in my life.

-Willie Castrejon

Posted 09/15/08 | Report Abuse

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Faith Baptist Church is such a gift to our family! In the 4 years we have been here, we have learned God's blueprint for our lives and are amazed at the beautiful transformation in our marriage and our standards. Our Pastor walks with God and is such a friend to our family and to all he knows! His integrity and stance on doing right (God's Way) is so contagious. We came to this church as new christians and were never looked down on or ridiculed, but loved. From then, we have grown and reaped countless blessings because of Godly preaching! It is so easy to love our church and to stay focused on Jesus!

Posted 08/10/08 | Report Abuse

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I attended this church a few times about 16 yrs ago when I was in the marine corps. No church is perfect but they do stand for the truth (premillenial, salvation by grace, KJV only, autonomy of the local church...etc). I was too much into sin and the world to appreciate it back then. One thing I will be eternally grateful for is my 86 yr old(at that time) great aunt who was like a mother to me and was a devout catholic accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior before she died as a result of the bible tract I got from this church. - Bill Daria Cincinnati Ohio

Posted 06/30/08 | Report Abuse

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I am not sure who attended our church for 18 years and then suddenly thinks we all hate them. I would guess if you messed up somewhere in life, only about 2 % of us even know- your family and maybe one or two people who may be close to you. How could we criticize you? I am sorry you feel that way. Of all the people who for some reason or another stopped attending FBC and then came back years later, I don't know a single one who was put on "the black list". Maybe you are the only one who hung around the "black list people." I have attended for over 10 years and have not yet found one of these. By the way, there are people who left our church for some reason, then came back, and were loved as if they never missed a Sunday, no matter WHAT happened in between. By the way, nowhere is there a list of rules for attending our church.

I love FBC. I love our pastor and his family- each member truly loves God - you can see it in their eyes (a rarity these days). I love my husband and children more, because I am constantly reminded about God's way (in the Bible) in doing so. I love reading my Bible, and spending time with my God - something I am also constantly remininded to do. I am often reminded "Don't follow the man - follow the Bible." I do not attend FBC because I am told to do so, or think I may become one of the "black list" people. I do, because I have found no other church with a more genuine love for people, and a place where I am reminded to fulfil the purpose God created me for -to love Him, and love people to Him. I owe Jesus my life - He did give His for me. I have a happy life - I have followed the recipe and have seen God's mercy in allowing me to reap the benefits- with icing!

Anywhere that God is working, the devil is there working just as hard to stop Him.

If you are looking for an old-fashioned Baptist church, who preaches the Bible, and not the trends of the day, I urge you to come and visit. I have not yet met a visitor who went home having been ignored.

Sincerely, A sinner saved by grace - who owes Him my love!

Posted 06/26/08 | Report Abuse

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I am daily amused and amazed by those who are so quick to slander or criticize, yet would be the last to put their name next to their critical remarks. Faith Baptist Church loves people. FBC loves good Christians. FBC loves rotten sinners. FBC loves drug attics. FBC loves businessmen. FBC loves children. There are over 500 children that attend FBC weekly and only 150 attend the Church-run-School. Do the math. The other 350 kids have gotta come from somewhere and they wouldnt come at all if they didnt feel loved. :) Come along some Sunday see for yourself! Its a great place to be and nothing would help your family more than to learn GODs design for families from HIS WORD the BIBLE. (which IS what the Pastor at FBC preaches from, in case you didnt know)

God Bless!

Hannah Goddard, 21

Posted 06/26/08 | Report Abuse

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I love Faith Baptist Church! I just got off the phone with Pastor Goddard, and I don't know of a Pastor in America who cares about his people more than he does. I've had the opportunity to really get to know him over the years, and I honestly don't know a better Christian man. Who do we think we are? Filthy, rotten sinners who are saved by the grace of God. Sure you are going to have certain people who will look down on you for doing your own thing - they don't know better, and you'll have those people everywhere you go; but you certainly will never hear that from Preacher, and you know it!! Preacher is straight down the line, do what the Bible says. I love being where I am, I love my life. I'm glad I'm not wasting away my days going to pointless parties, getting drunk, and living a life with no purpose. The people that criticize this church are folks I went to the Christian school with, and now they're off doing their own thing - nobody hates you or looks down on you! I get so frustrated with the ones who graduated from Faith Baptist Academy and now say that the church brainwashes you. Why? Because we teach you to do right, to live clean and separate from the world (that is what the Bible teaches right?) but you probably wouldn't know that because when is the last time you read your Bible? "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel..." When is the last time you saw somebody saved, or prayed for a missionary by name? Why is Pastor Goddard such a bad guy because he wants us to get married pure, and wait to have kids until after you're married?
Look, I don't mean to be critical of anybody. Everybody has their right to their own opinion. I'm just saying, I've been apart of Faith Baptist Church since I was in 6th grade, and now I'm graduated from Hyles-Anderson College. All I've learned over the years is: Stay in church, read your Bible, walk with God, keep people out of Hell, get married right, raise a godly family, pay your bills, and love people. Is that so bad?
Anyways, I love this church. Friends who criticize - look in the mirror, we've all got our problems. You know Pastor Goddard cares about you and would do anything he could to help you. Oh well, God is good. Have a great day. God Bless.

Posted 06/12/08 | Report Abuse

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I attended this church faithfully for 20 years. First as a teen and then as a married adult with children. This church can be your best friend or your worst enemy depending on whether you follow their "rules" and "standards". I personally was never black-listed but saw it happen time and again to people who asked questions or did things their own way. If they didn't put their children in the church-run school the children were looked down upon and treated as second class citizens. God forbid they went to public school but even if they were homeschooled they were looked down upon. It's a sad thing. So if you don't want to do it their way 100% then you should definitely not attend this church or be very careful if you do. Guard your heart because it will be broken eventually in this church. You know what they say: "Christians are the only army that shoot their own wounded". This church has this down to a science. God Bless!

Posted 05/14/08 | Report Abuse

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if you want to go a church that slowly manipulates you into their way of thinking this is the place to go. the church should be a place to go to worship God, not a man who thinks he is God on earth. its not about impressing a man, who is just a man, by separating yourself from the world around you just because they do not attend faith baptist church. i attended this church for 18 years, grew up there, followed their rules and did the program. this group of people is here to help you, but only if you obey every word that comes from the pulpit. as soon as you decide to step out of their boundaries you are way out of line in their eyes and now have received a title that should never be applied to an individual who is just simply trying to find their relationship with God. this church is way to political. a church should be an open environment where people can be upfront and honest about their daily life, and not be afraid of what the person next to them thinks. its just sad. who do these people think they are. this is just a group of people who are unaccepted in the real world, or are just screw ups who cant function without a person standing over them telling them their every move. if you are a man in this church why don't you man up and run your family on your own, and not have a pastor tell how to do it. I'm not saying that all church's are bad, but this one is really taking away from what God intended church to be.

Posted 04/26/08 | Report Abuse

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This is the best church I know if. The pastor is genuine and wants the best for you and your family. If you want to rear your family in a good Godly church where it is the "in thing" to do right - this is the church for you!

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Jennifer Beil

Posted 10/11/07 | Report Abuse

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