Posts from June 2025

Weekly Update – June 26th, 2025  Last Saturday morning, 11 youth and 3 adult volunteers loaded up our 15 passenger van to head off to Ascend Camp.  After months of planning and fundraising, we were finally ready to travel over to Lake Williamson in Carlinville, IL. Ascend Camp has been hosted by Mission Road Bible Church since 2012 and now has over 1000 students who attend every year.  Let me share with you some of the highlights from it.  First, the teaching.  One…

Weekly Update – June 19th, 2025  This week, we have had the opportunity to host our annual Vacation Bible School. The theme for this year is, Magnified: Declaring the Bigness of God in the Smallest of Things. Everyday children from our church and all over our community come to learn about truth is found in God and of how they can follow his plan shown to us through Jesus Christ. Our memory verse for the week is from Psalm 34:3 which says,…

Weekly Update – June 12th, 2025  It is not unusual to have multiple people stop by the church during the week looking for help. First Baptist Church is situated in the center of town and has been in the center of town before the center of town was even located where it currently is.  We have a reputation for helping others, whether it be through our clothes closet, our food pantry or through providing for the temporary needs of others. …

Weekly Update – June 5th, 2025  Every year, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) meets in June for its annual meeting.  The convention contains just over 47,000 churches with an average of 10,000 messengers attending this annual meeting on behalf of member churches.  The SBC was formed in 1845 with the singular purpose of, “eliciting, combining, and directing the energies of the Baptist denomination of Christians, for the propagation of the Gospel.”  First Baptist Church is an active member of the…