First Baptist Church

We are committed to being the church of Jesus Christ, bringing the love of God to our community and the world.

We value
-intergenerational community
-lifelong spiritual growth
-personal and corporate worship and prayer
-involvement in mission through evangelism and service
-being a welcoming community who care for and serve one another

Through the power and guidance of the Holy Spirit, our vision is to be a welcoming, intergenerational Christ-centered community who knows Christ and makes Him known, locally and beyond ourselves so that Christ might be glorified and the Kingdom of God advanced.

1- Lifelong spiritual growth

-Corporately, we seek to grow a comprehensive discipleship ministry of small group and classes through which people of all ages and spiritual backgrounds can be nurtured in their faith and spiritually formed into growing disciples of Jesus.
-Personally, we seek to encourage and equip people to grow in their personal knowledge of God’s Word and integration of Scripture into their daily lives.

2- Personal and corporate worship and prayer

-Individually, we seek to encourage and help people discover how they can incorporate worship and prayer into their daily lives.
-Corporately, we seek to provide worship and prayer opportunities that lead the whole people of God, to glorify God and to be ministered to by His Spirit

1- Involvement in mission through evangelism and service

-We seek to reach out and minister to nonbelieving and unchurched people in our community
-We seek to identify everyone’s God-given gifts, talents and abilities, and providing opportunities for them use their gifts.
-We seek to identify and provide for opportunities for people to serve within the church and community.
-We seek to provide opportunities for mission work outside our community – nationally and internationally.

2- Being a welcoming community who care for and serve one another

-We seek to be a community where people are welcomed, loved, cared for, encouraged, admonished, and built up in the name of Jesus.
-We seek to be a community where we practice authentic Christian relationships, seeking to live in fellowship with one another in Christ-honoring ways.

"As a Christ-centered community, our mission is to know Christ and make Him known."