About
Our History
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On November 17, 1987, Springdale Baptist Church held its first service, under the leadership of Pastor David Butler and as a mission of 9th and O Baptist Church, at a Ramada Inn on Brownsboro Road.
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On June 26, 1988, Springdale held its constitutional service at Broadway Baptist Church.
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On Easter Sunday, April 11, 1993, Springdale held its first service in its new Springdale Road property.
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In 2004, Springdale Baptist Church changed its name to Springdale Community Church and adopted a plural-elder-led governance structure.
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During the fall of 2005, Springdale built and moved into the facility we are in now.
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In 2009, Pastor David moved to a new ministry calling in Boston, and the church experienced many highs and lows over the next decade.
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On April 10, 2022, Springdale called Daniel Slott to be its fourth Senior Pastor.
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On February 5, 2023, Springdale voted to accept the following mission statement: Our mission is to glorify God by making disciples through gospel-centered worship, community, and mission.
While Springdale has met in multiple locations, operated under different forms of leadership, and been led by four different senior pastors, the inaugural mission has not changed: Springdale Church exists to glorify God, share Christ, and be a home where all feel welcome. And by God’s grace, He will faithfully carry us into the next chapter of Springdale’s story.
Our Pastors/Elders
Springdale is an elder-led, deacon-served, staff-empowered, and member-committed church. We believe pastors and elders are interchangeable terms referring to the same office. The Elder Team —consisting of staff pastors and lay elders—serves the church by overseeing ministries, shepherding spiritual health, and providing pastoral leadership.
Staff Pastors
Daniel Slott
Lead Pastor
Husband to Taryn and father of three, Daniel grew up and came to faith in Oklahoma City. He graduated from Oklahoma State University with a degree in International Business. He earned his M.Div. and Ph.D. degrees from Southern Seminary in Louisville, KY. After serving as a missionary in East Asia for fourteen years, he joined Springdale as Lead Pastor in 2022. He is also an adjunct professor at Boyce College.
Contact Pastor Daniel here.
John Adams
Family Pastor
Husband to Megan and father of two, John grew up in Maysville, KY, and came to faith while attending Eastern Kentucky University. John completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at EKU and then earned his M.Div. at Southern Seminary. He joined Springdale as a bi-vocational pastor in 2018.
Contact Pastor John here.
Lay Elders
Bill Hauer
Finance Elder
Husband to Sarah and father of two, Bill works at Humana. He joined Springdale as a member in 2010 and was elected as an elder in 2020.
Contact Bill here.
Jack Scarborough
Care Elder
Husband to Jessie, father of three, grandfather of eight, and great-grandfather to three, Jack worked as a loss control consultant for fifty years and is now retired. He joined Springdale as a member in 2003 and was elected as an elder in 2020. Jack currently serves as the Director of our Oaks Ministry, which is a ministry for retirees.
Contact Jack here.
Tony Sherrill
Prayer Elder
Husband to Sandy and father of four, Tony works at CloudFit Software. He joined Springdale as a member in 2006 and was elected as an elder in 2020. He loves God’s Word and enjoys watching others fall in love with the Lord and His Word. He also enjoys using his engineering and IT skills to serve the Lord and the church.
Contact Tony here.
Steve Skaggs
Facilities Elder
Husband to Alice, father of three, and grandfather to four, Steve works at the US Army Corps of Engineers, where he is a senior project engineer and subject matter expert on engineering design and construction acquisition. He joined Springdale as a member in 2015 and was elected as an elder in 2020. He currently serves as a member of the Worship Arts Team and the Director of Springdale’s Men’s Ministry.
Contact Steve here.Our Deacons
While we believe the office of pastor/elder is for biblically qualified men, we believe the office of deacon can be filled by biblically qualified men and women.
Facilities Team
The Facilities Team serves the church by managing the property, coordinating repairs, and administering service contracts.
Contact the Facilities Team here.
Prayer Team
Contact the Prayer Team here.
Care Team
The Care Team serves the church by coordinating help, scheduling visitations, and directing the benevolence ministry.
Contact the Care Team here.Missions Team
The Missions Team serves the church by caring for our missionaries, organizing mission projects and trips, and leading our local, national, and global missions strategies.
Contact the Missions Team here.Finance Team
Contact the Finance Team here.
Our Staff
Springdale is an elder-led, deacon-served, staff-empowered, and member-committed church. We believe pastors and elders are interchangeable terms referring to the same office. The Elder Team —consisting of staff pastors and lay elders—serves the church by overseeing ministries, shepherding spiritual health, and providing pastoral leadership.
Our Vision
Our vision is for Springdale Community Church to be a disciple-making church where every member lives all of life as worship, all of life in community, and all of life on mission.
God desires His people to be conformed into the image of Jesus — that all who are in Christ would be transformed by the renewal of their minds, hearts, and actions (Romans 8:29; 12:2). God wants the whole person. Our vision and prayer are that all Springdale members—those with us today and all God will bring tomorrow — would be transformed by the power of the gospel to live fully surrendered to Jesus, living all of life as worship, in community, and on mission — and that we would help another do the same. That is disciple-making: We are walking faithfully with Christ, and we are bringing others along to do the same.
Our Mission
Our mission is to glorify God by making disciples through gospel-centered worship, community, and mission.
We define “disciple” as a follower of Jesus who is being conformed to the image of Christ in three transformational ways: a transformed heart, a transformed mind, and a transformed life. Disciple-making is the Christ-commanded, Spirit-empowered, and multiplicative duty of every believer to lead others to follow Jesus as Savior and Lord. In full, the disciple-making process includes evangelizing the lost, leading them to saving faith in Jesus, baptizing them in the name of the triune God, uniting them to a local church as an active member, teaching them to obey all that Christ commands, and equipping them to be disciple-makers themselves. Jesus “discipled” His followers to be disciples. That command is passed on to every believer today—to follow Christ and “disciple” others to follow Jesus. Just as a disciple is marked by a transformed heart, mind, and life, the disciple-making process seeks to lead others to be transformed into the image of Jesus through the empowerment of the Holy Spirit and to the praise of God’s glory.
Our Values
Our values shape who we are as individual followers of Jesus and as a corporate body. The gospel defines and shapes each value. The gospel reveals who God is, how He loves us, how He redeems us, and how He places His Spirit in us so we can worship Him in spirit and truth. The gospel reveals how God has united us to Christ and placed us in His family, where we are to live out these truths in community with the redeemed. And the gospel reveals how God pursued us and has now sent us, like the Father sent the Son, to be on mission to seek and save the lost.
Gospel-Centered Worship
Our hope is that all members would so value God’s glory that we view all of life as an act of worship. Whether we are singing and ascribing to God the glory due His name on Sunday morning in the worship center or fulfilling a mundane task at our workplace, may we see every moment of every day as an opportunity to worship God.
Gospel-Centered Community
Our hope is that all members would so value living out the gospel in covenant membership with one another that we live all of life in community. Living out the gospel together means we seek to love one another, care for one another, encourage one another, and obey all the Bible’s “one another” commands in community. To live all of life in community means we do not go through life alone; we bring people into our lives, our struggles, and our ministry so we can spur one another on to love and good deeds (Hebrews 10:24).
Gospel-Centered Mission
Our hope is that all members would so value God using us to accomplish His purposes that we live all of life on mission. To live on mission is to live with the same missional urgency and intentionality that missionaries live with everyday overseas. It is believing God has placed us where we are and in the relationships we have to serve people, share the gospel, and disciple others to follow Jesus. Whether on a mission trip overseas or in our neighborhoods and workplaces, we want God to use us whenever, wherever, and however He wants to accomplish His mission (John 20:21).
Our Beliefs
Scripture
The Bible, composed of the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testament, is the inspired Word of God and without error in the original writing. The Bible was given by God through chosen people. The Bible is the full and final authority on all matters of faith and practice; there are no other writings similarly inspired of God. The Bible’s truth is timeless and speaks to our everyday lives.
Luke 21:33; 24:44; Romans 15:4; Hebrews 4:12; 2 Timothy 3:15-17; 1 Peter 1:25; 2 Peter 1:19-21
God
God is the creator and ruler of the universe. He has eternally existed in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. These three are coequal and are one God, full of love and glory.
Genesis 1:1, 26, 27; 3:22; Psalm 90:2; Matthew 28:19; 1 Peter 1:2; 2 Corinthians 13:14
God the Father
God the Father reigns with providential care over His universe, His creatures, and the whole flow of human history, according to the purposes of His grace. He is all powerful, all knowing, all loving, and all wise. While He is fatherly in His attitude toward all, He is Father in truth and in relationship to those who become children of God through faith in Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 64:8; Matthew 23:9; Luke 10:21, 22; John 3:16; 6:27; Romans 1:7; 1 Timothy 1:1-2; 1 Peter 1:3
Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ is the Son of God. He is coequal with the Father. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, and is fully human and fully divine. Jesus lived a sinless life and offered Himself as the perfect sacrifice for the sins of all by dying on a cross. On the third day God raised Him from the dead and glorified Him to affirm His victory over sin and death. He ascended to heaven’s glory and will physically return again to earth to reign as King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
Matthew 1:22-23; Luke 1:26-38; Isaiah 9:6; John 1:1-5; 14:10-30; Hebrews 4:4-14; 1 Corinthians 15:3, 4; Romans 1:3, 4; Acts 1:9-11; 1 Timothy 6:14-15; Titus 2:13
The Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is coequal with the Father and the Son as God. He is present in the world to make mankind aware of their need for Jesus Christ. At the moment of salvation, the Holy Spirit permanently indwells every Christ-follower and becomes the source of assurance, strength, and wisdom. The Holy Spirit uniquely endows each Christ-follower with gifts for building up the body of Christ, the church. The Holy Spirit also guides Christ-followers in understanding and applying the Bible. The Christ-follower seeks to live under His control daily.
Luke 21:33; 24:44; Romans 15:4; Hebrews 4:12; 2 Timothy 3:15-17; 1 Peter 1:25; 2 Peter 1:19-21
Salvation
Mankind was created in the image of God to have fellowship with Him and to be like Him in character. Although mankind has tremendous potential for good, mankind became alienated from God through sinful disobedience. As a result, mankind is incapable of regaining a right relationship with God through their own effort. The fall took place at the beginning of human history, and all individuals since have suffered these consequences and are in need of the saving grace of God. Salvation is a gift from God available to all who accept Him. Mankind can never atone for their sin by self-improvement or good works. The blood of Jesus, shed on the cross, provides the sole basis for the forgiveness of sin. Therefore, salvation occurs only when people repent of their sin and place their faith in Christ alone, whose death and resurrection is the only sufficient payment for their sin. This is the finished work of Christ.
Genesis 1:27; Psalm 8:3-6; Isaiah 53:6; 59;1-2; Romans 3:23; 5:1; 6:23; Ephesians 2:8-9; John 14:6; Titus 3:5; Galatians 3:26
Eternal Security
The Bible, composed of the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testament, is the inspired Word of God and without error in the original writing. The Bible was given by God through chosen people. The Bible is the full and final authority on all matters of faith and practice; there are no other writings similarly inspired of God. The Bible’s truth is timeless and speaks to our everyday lives.
John 10:29; 2 Timothy 1:12; Hebrews 7:25; 10:10, 14; 1 Peter 1:3-5
The Church
The church is the body of Christ, a community of baptized Christ-followers who have trusted in the finished work of Christ by faith. The purpose of the local church is to glorify God by loving Him and making Him known to the lost world, providing community for Christ-followers, developing gifts and talents of Christ-followers for godly service, and participating in the practice of baptism and Communion. Baptism and Communion are God’s ordinances to be observed by believers in Jesus Christ but are not to be regarded as a means of salvation.
Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 2:38-41, 42-47; Colossians 1:18; Hebrews 10:24-25; 13:17; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26; 12:12-13
Human Destiny
Death seals the eternal destiny of each person. For all mankind there will be a resurrection of the body. Unbelievers will be separated from God into condemnation. God’s judgment will reveal His justice in consigning them to eternal separation. Christ-followers will be received into eternal Communion with God to be ever with the Lord.
Matthew 25:31-46; John 5:16-30; 2 Thessalonians 1:5-10; Hebrews 9:27; Revelation 20:11-15
Faith and Practice
Scripture is the final authority in all matters of faith and practice. SCC recognizes that it cannot bind the conscience of individual members in areas where Scripture is silent. Rather, each believer is to be led in these areas by the Lord to whom he or she alone is ultimately responsible. All should refrain from advocating doctrines that are not included in this Statement of Faith in such a way as to cause dissension. By adhering to God’s Word and seeking Him, we can best observe His greatest commandments, which are to love Him and others. With regard to the family, we believe marriage is the uniting of one man of birth origin and one woman of birth origin in covenant commitment for a lifetime.
Genesis 1:1, 26, 27; 3:22; Psalm 90:2; Matthew 28:19; 1 Peter 1:2; 2 Corinthians 13:14
Our Membership
At Springdale Church, membership matters. Our membership covenant is called “Life Together at Springdale.” The membership covenant contains commitments our members have made to one another as we seek to glorify God and live out the gospel together. To help you join in the life and ministry of the church, we ask all new members to participate in a four-step process, which includes attending a free lunch called First Connection, participating in two membership classes, and having coffee with one of our pastors so they can get to know you better.
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First Connection
This is an informal lunch held right after the worship service where you get to know us and we get to know you. You will hear Springdale’s vision, mission, and philosophy of ministry; meet some of our elders and members; and participate in a forum where you can ask questions.
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Membership Class #1
In our first of two membership classes, you will hear about the past, present, and future of Springdale as well as be introduced to our core beliefs. This class will take place at 8:45 a.m. on Sunday morning in the Community Center. Child ministry programming is provided for all ages.
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Coffee with a Pastor
This is a chance for one of our pastors/elders to share his salvation testimony, baptism story, and Springdale experience with you as well as for you to share your testimony, baptism story, and church history with them. It is also a good time for you to ask questions, share what you are looking for in a church, and explore ways to serve. This meeting with be scheduled between the pastor/elder and you.
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Membership Class #2
In our second of two membership classes, you will explore what your “future” could look like at Springdale by unpacking Springdale’s membership covenant “Life Together at Springdale,” hearing from our Connect Team Director about needs in the church, and finding the right ministry team where you can use your gifts and passions. This class will also take place at 8:45 a.m. on Sunday morning in the Community Center. Child ministry programming is provided for all ages.
Still have questions? Contact our Connect Director below.
Our Invitation
Scripture uses a variety of metaphors to speak of Christians. One of those metaphors is in Ephesians 2:19 when Paul calls us members of God’s household. In other places, we are called sons and daughters of God. These descriptions simply mean that when you are a part of God’s family, you are also called to live out that faith in a local church family. We all need a church family—a family that will help you grow in our relationship with Jesus and help you participate in His mission. We want to invite you to make Springdale your church home and help you live all of life as worship, in community, and on mission. Join us. We are excited to see what God will accomplish in and through you as we live out “Life Together at Springdale” as one church!