MEET OUR FOUNDER
Pastor Crystal Pollard
Founder/ Executive Pastor
Pastor Crystal Pollard is the Founder of Church Without Walls. In 2008 God gave her a vision to take the church to the community vs the community coming to the church. So, she gathered up a tent, sound system and chairs and located an empty plot of land in the Northwood housing community area and began having 11:00 Sunday service outdoors, later on her son Jamail Watson joined her in this ministry.
God revealed to her that there would be churches birthed out of Church Without Walls; and today the first Church to be established is Risen Life, where her son Jamail Watson serves as the Senior Pastor and she serves as the Executive Pastor/Founder.
Pastor Crystal has served in the church most of all her life and at an early age it was recognized that God had a special call on her life to reach, teach and preach to the lost and unsaved. Pastor Pollard was licensed to preach the gospel in 2000 and was ordained in 2006. She currently serves as an associated minister at St Luke Christian Church under Pastor T.C. Johnson.
Pastor Pollard is the wife of Brother Timothy Pollard, who actively serves on the St Luke Christian Men’s Ministry and several other ministries at St Luke. Pastor Pollard is also the daughter of Pastor Emeritus Johnny Scott of Shiloh Baptist Church in Venice, Illinois. Pastor Pollard recently retired from the Missile Defense Agency as the Director of Business and Financial Management for the THAAD program with 35 years of Federal Government experience in the Business Financial Management area. She holds a BS in Accounting from Southern Illinois, and is a CPA licensed from the state of Missouri.
Pastor Pollard is currently working as a Program Manager for Rividium , Inc, a dynamic and innovative Human Capital Resources, IT Technology, Logistics and Cyber Security firm that strives to be the missing element defining tomorrow’s technology for their clients.
Pastor Pollard has a passion and commitment to serve those that society has overlooked and under valued and she strives to extend hope to the hopeless.
God revealed to her that there would be churches birthed out of Church Without Walls; and today the first Church to be established is Risen Life, where her son Jamail Watson serves as the Senior Pastor and she serves as the Executive Pastor/Founder.
Pastor Crystal has served in the church most of all her life and at an early age it was recognized that God had a special call on her life to reach, teach and preach to the lost and unsaved. Pastor Pollard was licensed to preach the gospel in 2000 and was ordained in 2006. She currently serves as an associated minister at St Luke Christian Church under Pastor T.C. Johnson.
Pastor Pollard is the wife of Brother Timothy Pollard, who actively serves on the St Luke Christian Men’s Ministry and several other ministries at St Luke. Pastor Pollard is also the daughter of Pastor Emeritus Johnny Scott of Shiloh Baptist Church in Venice, Illinois. Pastor Pollard recently retired from the Missile Defense Agency as the Director of Business and Financial Management for the THAAD program with 35 years of Federal Government experience in the Business Financial Management area. She holds a BS in Accounting from Southern Illinois, and is a CPA licensed from the state of Missouri.
Pastor Pollard is currently working as a Program Manager for Rividium , Inc, a dynamic and innovative Human Capital Resources, IT Technology, Logistics and Cyber Security firm that strives to be the missing element defining tomorrow’s technology for their clients.
Pastor Pollard has a passion and commitment to serve those that society has overlooked and under valued and she strives to extend hope to the hopeless.
The Rise...
Church Without Walls Church began as an evangelistic outreach ministry geared toward taking the church outside its structural walls into the community as opposed to pleading the community to come to a church building. At it's conception the mission of Church Without Walls was to provide a platform for ministers to establish and build their own church congregations through this evangelistic opportunity that was founded by visionary Founder/Executive Pastor Crystal Pollard. In the summer of 2009 under the direction of the Holy Spirit, Pastor Crystal Pollard was led to launch a movement to go into the city and preach the gospel. With just five people in front of the Calvary Hill Center in Norwood, Church Without Walls ministry conducted its first service. Within 5 years through the power of the Holy Spirit under the dynamic preaching and teaching of current Senior Pastor Jamail Watson Church Without Walls grew from 5 people to 60 members holding services twice a month, with a growing desire from members to establish a more permanent place of worship the first church of its kind and prayerfully first of many, Risen Life Church Without Walls was birthed. Risen Life Church Without Walls Launched in the Fall of 2018, under the leadership of it's current Senior Pastor Jamail Watson. The initial call to operate outside the walls of traditional church limitations, remains at the forefront and interwoven in the fabric of the Church's culture. Though Risen Life Church Without Walls has become an established congregational body the outreach ministry still housed under the founding name Church Without Walls continues to venture outside the walls to provide opportunities to minister to those in the community and provide a platform for ministers to establish more permanent church congregations in surroundings communities and areas.
