Meet Our Pastors

Pastor John and Donna

John Guillott, Pastor

Pastor John, and his wife, Donna, have been serving Green Valley Baptist Church since July 2011. They have two daughters. Gabi lives near Hinesville, GA and Valerie lives in Maryville, TN. The Guillott’s have 5 grandchildren. Pastor John has also been working with over 60 churches in the Catalina Baptist Association, Tucson, AZ since August of 2008. Prior to moving to Arizona, both John and Donna were on staff of the Dakota Baptist Convention in North and South Dakota. They have also served in Louisiana, Texas, Missouri, Minnesota, and Wyoming. John is a huge baseball fan and really loves all kinds of sports – with a special interest in supporting the Sahuarita High School Mustangs!

Pastor John and Leigh

John Prim (JP), Music Director/Associate Pastor

Pastor JP, as he is known here at GVBC, has been pastoring for over 40 years. He has served the Lord as a youth pastor, music director, education pastor, professional sports chaplain, senior pastor, missionary in a foreign country and currently is our music director and associate pastor. He also is a North American Mission Board endorsed chaplain in a local hospice. He is married to Leigh (pronounced “Lee”) and moved to Green Valley in 2017. JP is a lover of God’s word and enjoys leading one of our Bible studies on Sunday morning.

Pastor David and Song

David Pack, Associate Pastor

Pastor David and Song have been married for forty-three years. They have one son and daughter in-law with three children. David served in the U.S. Air Force for twenty years then went to work for Intel Corporation for another twenty years. During that time, he attended seminary and earned his Master of Divinity from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary. After graduation, David continued to work and pastor in Scottsdale and Chandler before moving to Green Valley three years ago. He currently volunteers with the Pima County Sheriff’s Auxiliary in Green Valley. David loves spending time with his family and the outdoors. He is a motorcycle enthusiast and enjoys traveling on his motorcycles experiencing the beauty of God’s creation.

Mission Statement

The Mission of the Green Valley Baptist Church: To connect the unconnected to Christ in the greater Green Valley area, and beyond, and engage in ministry as joyous Christ followers.

What We Believe

I. The Scriptures

The Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is God’s revelation of Himself to man. It is a perfect treasure of divine instruction. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter. Therefore, all Scripture is totally true and trustworthy. It reveals the principles by which God judges us, and therefore is, and will remain to the end of the world, the true center of Christian union, and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds, and religious opinions should be tried. All Scripture is a testimony to Christ, who is Himself the focus of divine revelation.

II. God

There is one and only one living and true God. He is an intelligent, spiritual, and personal Being, the Creator, Redeemer, Preserver, and Ruler of the universe. God is infinite in holiness and all other perfections. God is all powerful and all knowing; and His perfect knowledge extends to all things, past, present, and future, including the future decisions of His free creatures. To Him we owe the highest love, reverence, and obedience. The eternal triune God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.

A. God the Father

God as Father reigns with providential care over His universe, His creatures, and the flow of the stream of human history according to the purposes of His grace. He is all powerful, all knowing, all loving, and all wise. God is father in truth to those who become children of God through faith in Jesus Christ. He is fatherly in His attitude toward all men.

 B. God the Son

Christ is the eternal Son of God. In His incarnation as Jesus Christ He was conceived of the Holt Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. Jesus perfectly revealed and did the will of God, taking upon Himself human nature with its demands and necessities and identifying Himself completely with mankind yet without sin. He honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and in His substitutionary death on the cross He made provision for the redemption of men from sin. He was raised from the dead with a glorified body and appeared to His disciples as the person who was with them before His crucifixion. He ascended into heaven and is now exalted at the right hand of God where He is the One Mediator, fully God, fully man, in whose Person is effected the reconciliation between God and man. He will return in power and glory to judge the world and to consummate His redemptive mission. He now dwells in all believers as the living and ever present Lord.

C. God the Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God, fully divine. He inspired holy men of old to write the Scriptures. Through illumination He enables men to understand truth. He exalts Christ. He convicts men of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. He calls men to the Saviour, effects regeneration. At the moment of regeneration, He baptizes every believer into the Body of Christ. He cultivates Christian character, comforts believers, and bestows the spiritual gifts by which they serve God through His church. He seals the believer unto the day of final redemption. His presence in the Christian is the guarantee that God will bring the believer into the fullness of the stature of Christ. He enlightens and empowers the believer and the church in worship, evangelism, and service.

III. Man

Man is the special creation of God, made in His own image. He created them male and female as the crowning work of His creation. The gift of gender is thus part of the goodness of God’s creation. In the beginning man was innocent of sin and was endowed by his Creator with freedom of choice. By his free choice man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race. Through the temptation of Satan man transgressed the command of God, and fell from his original innocence whereby his posterity inherit a nature and an environment inclined toward sin. Therefore, as soon as they are capable of moral action, they become transgressors and are under condemnation. Only the grace of God can bring man into His holy fellowship and enable man to fulfill the creative purpose of God. The sacredness of human personality is evident in that God created man in His own image, and in that Christ died for man; therefore, every person of every race possesses full dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love.

IV. Salvation

Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. In its broadest sense salvation includes regeneration, justification, sanctification, and glorification. There is no salvation apart from personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord.

V. God’s Purpose of Grace

Election is the gracious purpose of God, according to which He regenerates, justifies, sanctifies, and glorifies sinners. It is consistent with the free agency of man, and comprehends all the means in connection with the end. It is the glorious display of God’s sovereign goodness, and is infinitely wise, holy, and unchangeable. It excludes boasting and promotes humility. All true believers endure to the end. Those whom God has accepted in Christ, and sanctified by His Spirit, will never fall away from the state of grace, but shall persevere to the end. Believers may fall into sin through neglect and temptation, whereby they grieve the Spirit, impair their graces and comforts, and bring reproach on the cause of Christ and temporal judgments on themselves; yet they shall be kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation.

VI. The Church

A New Testament church of the Lord Jesus Christ is an autonomous local congregation of baptized believers, associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel; observing the two ordinances of Christ, governed by His laws, exercising the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in them by His Word, and seeking to extend the gospel to the ends of the earth. Each congregation operates under the Lordship of Christ through democratic processes. In such a congregation each member is responsible and accountable to Christ as Lord. Its scriptural officers are pastors and deacons. While both men and women are gifted for service in the church, the office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture. The New Testament speaks also of the church as the Body of Christ which includes all of the redeemed of all the ages, believers from every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation.

VII. Baptism and the Lord’s Supper

Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in water in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. It is an act of obedience symbolizing the believer’s faith in a crucified, buried, and risen Saviour, the believer’s death to sin, the burial of the old life, and the resurrection to walk in newness of life in Christ Jesus. It is a testimony to his faith in the final resurrection of the dead. Being a church ordinance, it is a prerequisite to the privileges of church membership and the Lord’s Supper.

The Lord’s Supper is a symbolic act of obedience whereby members of the church, through partaking of the bread and the fruit of the vine, memorialize the death of the Redeemer and anticipate His second coming.

VIII. The Lord’s Day

The first day of the week is the Lord’s Day. It is a Christian institution for regular observance. It commemorates the resurrection of Christ from the dead and should include exercises of worship and spiritual devotion, both public and private. Activities on the Lord’s Day should be commensurate with the Christian’s conscience under the Lordship of Jesus Christ.

IX. The Kingdom

The Kingdom of God includes both His general sovereignty over the universe and His particular kingship over men who willfully acknowledge Him as King. Particularly the Kingdom is the realm of salvation into which men enter by trustful, childlike commitment to Jesus Christ. Christians ought to pray and to labor that the Kingdom may come and God’s will be done on earth. The full consummation of the Kingdom awaits the return of Jesus Christ and the end of this age.

X. Last Things

God, in His own time and in His own way, will bring the world to its appropriate end. According to His promise, Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly in glory to the earth; the dead will be raised; and Christ will judge all men in righteousness. The unrighteous will be consigned to Hell, the place of everlasting punishment. The righteous in their resurrected and glorified bodies will receive their reward and will dwell forever in Heaven with the Lord.

Church History

In the early 1970s, a group of Southern Baptists in Green Valley began to pray that God would plant a church in their community. With the arrival of Pastor Jack and Tomi Miller, the dream became a reality. On February 27, 1977, the Green Valley Baptist Church was constituted, with 137 charter members. The current location of 8.9 acres at 1111 North La Canada was located and purchased. The first unit was the worship center/classroom building. Continued growth caused the need for more space. This expansion included the Fellowship Hall/classroom and music suite. The final phase of construction was the office/classroom complex dedicated in 1999. Following Pastor Miller’s retirement, the church called Glenn and Jo Lawson in January, 1983. Pastor Glenn served fifteen years until his retirement. In June, 1999, the church called John Elder as pastor, and in January, his wife, Cheryl, became Minister of Music. In 2007, Pastor Elder accepted the position of president of the Arizona Baptist Children’s Services in Phoenix. Steve Zahare, along with his wife Terry, became pastor in January, 2008. Following the departure of Pastor Steve in June, 2011, John Guillott is now serving as our Pastor. Throughout the history of Green Valley Baptist Church, God has brought a stream of saints who have served him through this congregation. A strong missions emphasis, Bible-based programming, choir-led worship, and a warm atmosphere have caused this fellowship to flourish.