Spirit and Truth Fellowship of Knoxville (STFK) is a local and independent
Evangelical Christian Church: Trinity in doctrine, Pentecostal in experience.
Everyone is welcome, and we would like to invite you to visit us for worship
on Sunday mornings at 10:00 A.M.
We are located at 241 Neals Landing Road, Suite 201,
Knoxville, TN 37924.
If you are looking for our church T-shirts, click
here.
Outreach at CreepyCon (August 25-27)
Spirit and Truth Fellowship of Knoxville is doing outreach at
CreepyCon in Knoxville. We set up a booth in the vendor area to
invite attendees to our church and to our Science Café events.
Click on the pictures below to enlarge, or click
here to see more.
Monthly Singing Service (August 26)
One church service each month each month is set aside to allow everyone
in the congregation to share a talent or testimony. You can sing a song,
play a musical instrument, share a poem you read, or just about anything
that's on your heart so long as the intent is to lift up the name of Jesus.
The singing service takes place at 10:00 A.M.
at the church building located at
241 Neals Landing Road, Suite 201,
Knoxville, TN 37924.
Weekly Video Log
Watch this short video each week to get the highlights of the most
recent sermon and a brief glimpse at upcoming events and church happenings
at STFK. Randy Henderson has served our church for several years as
Deacon of Media Ministry and is now ordained and in training to be our
Assistant Pastor. Send any comments or questions related to this video log
to vlog@spirit-and-truth.net,
and be sure to include the recording date of the related episode.
Spirit and Truth Fellowship of Knoxville (STFK) is a local and independent
Evangelical Christian Church.
The church building is located at
241 Neals Landing Road, Suite 201,
Knoxville, TN 37924.
We are worshippers of God, followers of Jesus Christ, and supporters of
science and science education. We see no conlict between believing in
the Creator and understanding the creation. As a church, we take no
official position on Genesis chapters 1-11 in the Bible, so
controversial matters such as the age of the Earth are avoided.
Newcomers can basically believe what they want about Genesis 1-11
without being judged for it.
People usually think of a skeptic as someone who finds it difficult to
believe in God. We are not a church comprised of skeptics. We are a
church who ministers to skeptics in an atmosphere of mutual respect
where skeptics can explore the concept of believing in God.
In the South, many Christians have this concept that the study science
is somehow a threat to their faith. We also exist to help those
Christians learn that faith in God and the study of science are
not mutually exclusive.
You might find it helpful to watch our video describing the
church vision.
What We Believe
Spirit and Truth Fellowship of Knoxville embraces mainstream
Christian (Protestant) beliefs, rooted in salvation that is
by grace through faith
(Ephesians 2:8-9).
On Sunday, February 19, Pastor David Spakes elaborated on the
Two Requirements for Salvation
in the following video on YouTube.
"Hey man! Thanks for the message. I was looking at the Fanboy posts
and I remembered meeting you with my wife in 2019 in Knoxville.
We're in Birmingham aaaaand we've had some bad church
experiences and remembered y'all and kept thinking we need
some good folks like that around here!
I'm 38 and had never been to church for real until I was about
30 or so, since then I keep coming back to the same conclusion:
God's cool, Jesus is cool, and people suck 😁 it breaks
my heart though because they don't have to. It's just tough
to get connected with folks when inevitably you see behind the mask
and it's all gossip or run by folks with a business mindset that
are only concerned about butts in seats.
I know it's not like that everywhere, it just takes a toll.
Really I just wanted to say thanks for being a good person and trying
to do what Jesus was all about: love folks, build em up, and just
don't be a turd."
Verse of the Day
Science Café
Spirit and Truth Fellowship of Knoxville (STFK) is a member of the
NOVA Science Cafés community and proudly sponsors
Science Café events for the Knoxville, Tennessee area.
You can see a list of
past
Science Café topics and presenters by hovering over the
Events menu above, then choose Science Café Events.
STFK Science Café (2023)
The STFK Science Café is currently on break and will resume
in the autumn of 2023.
Please check back later for announcements.
Kid's Café
Children are welcome to attend any of the Science Café meetings
with their parents! For ages 5-12, we offer a
Kid's Café program
in a nearby area with a science lesson and activities that help make
learning science fun! Kids can participate with the permission of
their parents while the parents enjoy the adult-level discussion.
For proper planning purposes, it is important that our children's
director knows in advance how many kids will be attending and their ages.
STFK Science Café (Virtual Attendance)
For those who are physcially unable to attend the Science Café or
still not ready to meet in person because of the pandemic, we are now
making a best-effort attempt to provide virtual accessibility through Zoom.
To join the meeting as it is happening, point your browser to
http://zoom.knoxsciencecafe.org.
We will also attempt to record meetings and post the video on
YouTube.
Sponsor Information
The STFK Science Café and Kid's Café
are sponsored by a pro-science
Evangelical Church called Spirit and Truth Fellowship of Knoxville.
However, during Science Café meetings, discussion will be restricted
to topics of science only. Religious viewpoints shall not
be presented. Within the context of the Science Café
and Kid's Café,
Spirit and Truth Fellowship of Knoxville does not advocate
religion. For more information, contact David Spakes,
spakes@spirit-and-truth.net.
UT Science Forum
Spirit and Truth Fellowship of Knoxville has been a financial sponsor of the
UT Science Forum since January, 2015.
This forum provides the general public, students and other researchers
an opportunity to learn about the latest cutting-edge research at UT,
ORNL and other local institutions.
Presentations by distinguished professors and researchers are
40 minutes long and are followed by a question-and-answer
session. The UT Science Forum is free and open to the public.
