About Us

You may wonder why we call ourselves the "Pollock Pines-Camino" church of Christ. That part is easy to explain. Some Christian about 20 years ago came together in the Pollock Pines community to establish a congregation devoted to being "Christians only." They met in the old Pollock Pines elementary school building on Pony Express Trail. Most of the members lived in Pollock Pines. A few years later the congregation, having outgrown the old meeting place, purchased the land at 4600 Pony Express Trail, Camino, and built the present church building. Since members live in both communities, as well as Cedar Grove, Placerville, and other places, the name "Pollock Pines-Camino" church of Christ is now used to designate the location of the congregation.
Far more important than the geographical designation of the local congregation is the spiritual designation. We call ourselves "church of Christ" because we belong to Jesus and seek to follow His teachings in their purity as taught in the New Testament. In the first century A.D., the period of the New Testament, "Christians" were just "the church" Jesus promised to build in Matthew 16:18. There were not yet the divisions caused by denominationalism in all its forms. They were simply the "church" belong to and originating from Christ (Romans 16:16). They had no official church creed book or policy statements other than the revealed scripture. They had no organization larger than or smaller than the local congregation of Christians. They loved each other, followed the teaching of Jesus and His apostles, taught as many of their neighbors and family members they could about the good news of salvation, and assembled regularly to commemorate Jesus' death on the cross (Acts 2:42-44).
We just want to follow their example today, since the New Testament is still operative in God's will for mankind's salvation. We want to be "Christians only". When you attend our our simple but reverent assemblies, you will not hear apologies for the Bible, or for the church, or for believing in such a thing called "truth." You can expect to hear that the Bible is the inspired Word of God, that God expects sinners to repent, that Jesus is the only Savior, and the church is the body of the saved. You will be with people who are friendly but imperfect. That is why we take our faith and love of Jesus Christ seriously. We will not offer you entertainment, political action committees, or financial planning training. We will, however, offer you the Bible as the guide to hope and peace in Jesus Christ. A hope that looks beyond the struggles of job, family, culture, politics, disease, and death to the grand finale of God's promises: Heaven and eternal life.
Come and let us welcome you and if you have questions, we can sit down as neighbors and friends and study the higher truths of the Word of God. Thank you for visiting our web site. Come back again!

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