The Nevilles at Homecoming ’08

Vacation Bible School

Who We Are A worshipping body. Worship is central to our lives. Worship and life are interdependent. We have discovered that when the living cease to praise God, the living are no longer living. We have further found through regular participation in public worship and daily private devotion, we are empowered for the work of teaching, witnessing and ministering in Christ’s name.

A learning church. We are a disciple making community. Our vision is to be “a little seminary” which provides a Christian education for believers. Our intention is to help one another continue to learn the story of God’s way with humankind as told in Scripture and in the lives of God’s people. We offer Sunday School classes for all ages. Adult learning opportunities include short-term study groups, Bible study, retreats, and Wednesday evening.

A serving people. We follow the Christ, who was servant of all. Memorial members minister to the larger community through their service in Habitat For Humanity, Beacon Rescue Mission, literacy programs, migrant ministries; and youth and adult mission groups have travelled to sites in the United States, Central and South America, Africa, Europe and Russia. The stewardship of our building includes providing rooms for a variety of service organizations, BSU, and a vital church-run Day Care Center. The church budget includes annual gifts to denominational missions.

A diverse congregation. We are people bound together by our confession of faith in Jesus as Lord, to the glory of God. We have in our membership persons from many denominational, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds. Baptism of believers by immersion is the only mode we practice. We affirm the baptism of other groups of Christians. We do not make immersion a membership requirement for those who have been baptized in other communions, provided they have undergone Confirmation as a believer. We ask only that these share our confession of faith in Christ as Lord, and find their baptism meaningful, regardless of when it occurred and the mode by which it was administered.

A member of the Greater Christian Church. While a Baptist congregation in the classic free-church tradition, we are but a local expression of the larger Body of Christ. We are in friendly cooperation with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, and of kindred spirit through Christ with the larger Christian community.

Our Goals

1. Openness to a diversity of people, Christian traditions, worship traditions, and giftedness under the banner of the Lordship of Christ.

2. Education as valuable in its own right and as a major priority of Memorial Baptist Church.

3. Missions involvement and support.