About Us

VISION STATEMENT

To grow bible-based churches and passionately connect the love and gospel of Jesus to all through His people.

MISSION STATEMENT

To live out the Gospel of Jesus, build up the community of His church and empower it for His mission to redeem His people.

GOSPEL

We believe that the Gospel is the good news (not advice) about what Jesus Christ has done to reconcile humans to God. There is only one God who is holy and made us in His image to know Him. But we sinned against God and rejected Him to live our own lives. In His great love, God sent His son Jesus Christ to come and rescue us from our own sins. Jesus lived the perfect life on earth, died on the cross to fulfil the law himself and took on the punishment of our sins. Jesus rose again from the dead, demonstrating that God accepted his sacrifice on our behalf and that God’s wrath against us had been satisfied in Christ. God now calls us to repent of our sins and to trust in Christ alone for our forgiveness. If we repent of our sins, we are born again into a new eternal life with a restored relationship with God. The gospel is God’s explosive power that changes everything. The gospel motivates believers through the riches of God’s grace not guilt. The Gospel fuels our passion for His mission. In response to Christ’s finished work on the cross we are committed towards being passionate and having a spirit of excellence to proclaim His Glory. This encompasses everything that we do from our praise and worship to ministry works, from our teaching to discipleship and from our caring to sharing. The Gospel makes us passionate for His Community and His Mission.

COMMUNITY

The church is a community, a household of faith, rather than a collection of individuals. Jesus came to create a new community, empowered by the gospel. In Christ and in community, we devote ourselves to one another with increasing vulnerability, because the gospel frees us from hiding our faults. Jesus creates a community that is open to others. People are at the heart of a gospel community. We strive to reach all who are lost, broken and far away from God, from all backgrounds and walks of life, and to bring them closer to Him by sharing the Gospel of Jesus. Everyone, from all ages and all backgrounds, is welcome and can come as they are, to be accepted and loved by our church as God loves and accepts us. This makes us a church that breaks down barriers that often divide. (i.e income , Age , Race , Culture ) . God has blessed the church with rich diversity and united in the Gospel we stand stronger. United we actively invest in raising servant leaders to set them up for successful, gospel-centered and missional lives through accountability, discipleship and partnership whilst modelling servant leadership. We are fervent in serving our Living God with an attitude of humility, grace, love, and patience, as exemplified by Christ, discovering and developing spiritual gifts to build up His community for His mission.

MISSIONS

We believe that our mission is to proclaim, to preserve and to display the Gospel in our community first and thereafter to the rest of the world. The church’s mission is to strengthen her members’ spiritual relationship with the Lord (Spiritual Nature) and to proclaim the gospel message of love and reconciliation through ministries (Physical nature) that our Lord Jesus Christ both supremely exemplified while on earth and continues to do so through the work of the Holy Spirit in His people. Jesus charged his apostles to proclaim the Gospel to all nations. In doing so, the church gets alongside God to achieve His mission and the ultimate goal of glorifying Him. (Matthew 25:34-40; 28:18-20) The church is the primary agent of God’s kingdom; supporting, planting and revitalizing other churches is a high priority. By proliferating churches centered on the gospel, we can play a significant role in healing and mending a broken world and testifying to our hope of Jesus’ return when he will set all things right. The gospel shows compassion for the poor and seeks justice. In the Spirit, the gospel of the Kingdom of God works for the healing of the world’s woundedness. We long for an environment in which the gospel is understood and people are discovering the joy of living out their commitment to the gospel. We seek to live into the priorities and passions of the kingdom of God. To bear witness (evangelism) and to show love (social action) are the distinct and inseparable holy actions of the body of Christ. Generosity is our privilege as we recognize all that Christ has so sacrificially and generously given us and we respond by also being generous – with our giving, time and talents to engage, influence and transform the city and beyond for His Glory.

WE BELIEVE- 

  1.  the ministry of the Holy Spirit is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ and to convict men of sin, righteousness and of the judgement to come; regenerate the believing sinner; indwell; guide; instruct, empower the believer for godly living and effective service to God.
  2. that man was created in the image of God but fell into sin and face eternal death and only through regeneration by the Holy Spirit can salvation and eternal life be obtained.
  3. the shed blood of Jesus Christ and His resurrection provide the only ground for justification and salvation for all who believe and only such as receive Jesus Christ are born of the Holy Spirit and are regenerated and thus become Children of God.
  4. that water baptism preferably by full immersion and the Lord’s Supper are ordinances to be observed by the Church during this age, but not to be regarded as a means of salvation.
  5. the true Church consists of all such persons who obtain salvation by grace not human works or merit but through saving faith in Jesus Christ were regenerated by the Holy Spirit and are united together in the Body of Christ of which He is the Head.
  6. that Jesus Christ is the Lord and Head of the Church and every local Church has the right under Christ to decide and govern its own affairs.
  7. in the personal and imminent return of our Lord Jesus Christ and that this blessed hope has a vital influence on the personal life and service of the believer.
  8.  in the bodily resurrection of the dead, of the believer to everlasting blessedness and joy of the Lord; of the unbeliever to judgement and everlasting conscious punishment.

Jesus is our message

We believe in the timeless message of salvation and hope in Jesus Christ. The methods may change but our message will always be the same.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. Romans 1:16

People are our heart

We believe Jesus loves all people. We strive to reach all who are lost, broken and far away from God, from all backgrounds and walks of life, and to bring them closer to Him by sharing the Gospel of Jesus. Everyone is welcome and can come as they are, to be accepted and loved by our church as God loves and accepts us.
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost. Luke 19:10 

Prayer and passion are our devotion

As Christ passionately gave His all for us, we are committed towards being passionate, prayerful and having a spirit of excellence in everything that we do, from our praise and worship to ministry works, from our teaching to discipleship and from our caring to sharing. Passion for Christ. Passion for people. Passion for His Church.
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. Matthew 22:37 – 38 

Servanthood is our attitude

We are fervent in serving our Living God with an attitude of humility, grace, love, generosity and patience, as exemplified by Christ, discovering and developing spiritual gifts to build up the body and His ministries.
Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. Matthew 20:28 

Unity is our responsibility

We believe that God has blessed our church with rich diversity and we are better together – united in the cause of Christ as His Body.
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. John 13:35 

Intergenerational is our commitment

We are a church for all generations to worship Jesus. We believe in the next generation and value the wisdom and guidance of those before us. We actively invest in raising young leaders to set them up for success in Christ through trust, discipleship and partnership.
One generation commends your works to another; they tell of your mighty acts. Psalm 145:4

CLICK HERE TO VIEW WHO ARE OUR LEADERS

The guiding principle of our church is “Servant Leadership”. Our leaders recognize the supreme important of modeling Christ as the basis in which true life transformation must take place within our own congregation. We lead by persuasion and exhortation focusing sharply on His Word as the authoritative basis of any action.

The First Baptist Leadership is based on the New Testament model of elders and deacons. The Council of Elders is responsible for the ministry of the Word in the pulpit and biblical education as well as providing overall spiritual oversight. The Church Board comprises deacons who are tasked with administering the church in the various ministries and programs. Pastors are either elders or deacons.

Beyond this group there is a wider group of deacons who are the ministry leaders, Life Group leaders of the church and other nominated leaders.Together with the Church board they form the Assembly of Leaders which is the review body of the church and provides check and balance as well as a pool of leaders who can rotate into the Church Board.