Pastor Charlie, Rebecca, and their two

children Mollie (11) and Charles (9), came

to Titusville, FL in April 2007 to start a new

ministry out of a dying church. After

several months of planning and

strategizing, New Venture Church was

officially launched in January 2008 with

about 20 people.  According to Charlie,

“Church planting is tremendously difficult,

but the reward of seeing changed lives

is well worth the sacrifice!"

Charlie brings 20 years of ministry experience

to New Venture Church. His first ten years of

ministry was in the denominational setting of

The United Methodist Church, followed by ten

years of non-denominational ministry.   Charlie

has led churches ranging in size of membership

from under 100 people to over 1,500 members

in the states of Tennessee, Indiana, North

Carolina, and now Florida.

Charlie holds degrees from East Tennessee State

University (Bachelor of Science in Psychology

and Speech Communication ’94) and Asbury

Theological Seminary (Master of Divinity ’98).

He has also travelled across the United States

visiting and learning from some of the largest

and fastest growing churches in the country.

Charlie’s passion is reaching people who have

given up on church and who don’t have a

relationship with Jesus Christ.

Charlie played several sports in both high school

and college, but particularly loves college

football! Charlie grew up in East Tennessee

and his family lived near Knoxville, so he has

been a Tennessee Volunteer football fan for

years. Over the years, Charlie has coached Jr.

High and Sr. High School sports, as well as local

youth sports currently through the Titusville

YMCA. Apart from sports, he is also an avid

movie fan! 

His wife, Rebecca, enjoys several hobbies

including scrapbooking, quilting, sewing,

knitting, etc. Her ministry passion is media

ministry and currently organizes and develops

the visual media ministry for Sunday morning

worship. Mollie loves to sing for our Kidventure

ministry on Sundays and is an up-and-coming

artist! She will be graduating this fall to our

Unleashed Student Ministry. Charles loves

sports and is actively involved in Kidventure

ministry on Sundays at NVC.

The Arms family has made a long-term

commitment to Titusville and to New Venture

Church. Charlie’s long-term vision includes

being a church which reproduces itself by

sending people out to plant more new

churches/ministries along the Space Coast.