We are an underdog church, not  a powerful, wealthy or a status-oriented community. Just a small church with a big building trying to be in the city for good. To be peacemakers in our homes and schools and community. To comfort those who mourn. To nurture a hunger for righteousness. To offer and receive mercy.

FBC's  Mission

"Reach out to the world around us and share the evrlasting love of Jesus Christ!" 

  FBC's Vision 

"To be a Spirited , Growing, and Christ-centered community filled with hope!"
 

FBC's  Core Values

1. Jesus is life. The rest is details. Jesus Christ alone is our hope, and the only real and lasting hope for the world. We love Him. For this reason, we don't apologize for the gospel or for putting our relationship with Him first in our lives. We strive to respond faithfully to the call of Jesus to follow Him above all else in this world which so often competes for our time, energy, and attention.

2. Lost people matter to God and so they matter to us.Jesus was sent to reconcile a lost world to God, and He calls us to do the same. We like unchurched people, and we know what a difference Jesus can make in their lives. For this reason we seek to reach out to the world around us and share the everlasting love of Jesus Christ.

3. We worship God, not tradition.Where tradition helps to proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ and further the mission of our church, we embrace it. Where tradition becomes a wall between God and His people, we seek to tear it down. While the gospel message of Jesus Christ remains unchanged, the manner in which it is proclaimed must change for it to be communicated effectively in a changing world. In our worship and in our ministry, we intentionally offer a variety of options from traditional to contemporary and we remain open to new waves of innovation sent to the church by the Holy Spirit of God - all for the sake of Christian mission.

4. Following Jesus is a growing experience.We can't outgrow Christian faith. As modern day disciples of Jesus Christ, we are called to move from spiritual infancy to spiritual maturity. For this reason we strive to bring people into an ever-growing relationship with Jesus Christ. This growth best happens in small groups. As we grow in faith, we turn our hearts to God, giving of our selves and our resources -- freely and cheerfully.

5. We are one body, united in Jesus Christ. We are a church of individuals, different in many ways, yet called together by God to be one in ministry and mission. As members of the same body, we become more effective when we work in harmony as a unified whole. Among us, love for one another is the norm, conflicts are resolved according to the teaching of Jesus, and we seek to build each other up. We rejoice together, and we suffer together.

Are you a loser, rebel, sell-out, liar, thief, adulterer, or at best…unlikely to be chosen to be part of a church? Do you wish you had a place to belong?  Are you far from perfect and make a lot of mistakes? A failure? A sinner?  If so, then you are the person we are looking for at First Baptist Church.  In fact...you are who Jesus is looking for.

Did you know that Jesus Christ didn’t pick religious, I’ve-got-it-all-together people to be his disciples?  Nope…instead he picked individuals with bad reputations, tax collectors, adulterers and other broken people.  Actually, it is those who recognize their pathetic loser status that are perfect for the Kingdom.  His twelve disciples, the leaders in His church, were former trouble-makers, outcasts, sell-outs and sinners.

Alistair Begg once made a comment that we are all “pathetic losers” who don’t have the power and don’t have the wisdom to know what to do next. I think that is a very profound statement.  Many times our pride…our desire to put up a false-front that we are ok…that American ‘pretending’ that we have it all together, that causes us to fight against the notion of being a “pathetic loser.” Being a loser is bad enough, but a pathetic loser?  The truth is we are pathetic losers…and without Christ, we’re sunk.

Jesus said, “Whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it” (Mark 8:35). In the Kingdom of God, all the values of the world are reversed. The way up is down. The last shall be first. The least will be the greatest. The servants will be the leaders.  This is why we want people who can admit that they are pathetic losers at First Baptist church. 

Pathetic Losers are able to worship in Spirit and in Truth (John 4).  We worship in Spirit when we surrender every part of our lives to the King.  You can only do this when you are at the end of your rope and need hope.  We worship in Truth when we recognize not only WHO Jesus is, but when we recognize that we are in desperate need of his grace and forgiveness.  These are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.

Wanted: People who are used, broken, rejected, have messed up, are spiritually and/or emotionally bankrupt.

Romans 3:23 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.We have been praying for you and we love you because we are all sinners. None of us are better than the next person. God has a plan and purpose for our lives and can give us a life we never dreamed possible. We hope you will take the next step towards that and come join us. welcome to First Baptist!