What We Believe
First Baptist Church of New Bern thrives as a powerful, beautiful, and intergenerational community of believers who take action in building up one another in Christ and equipping one another for ministry within our church family and among our neighbors.
We are affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina.
OUR VISION
First we love.
OUR MISSION
Seek to love God, others, then self, according to the model of Christ.
OUR PURPOSE
Promote the worship of God through the reading and study of the Holy Bible.
FIND YOUR FAITH
The above Vision and Mission and Purpose statements, and their fulfillment is in accordance with our Constitution under the Article II.
The Church shall be organized for the purpose of promoting the worship of God through the reading and study of the Holy Bible as the revealed Word of God; teaching and preaching of the Gospel of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ; conducting regular services of worship for the spiritual training, development, and benefit of each member; and winning souls to Jesus Christ.
The Church shall be a dynamic spiritual body, missionary in spirit, empowered by the Holy Spirit, to share Christ with and to minister to as many people as possible in our Church and community, and throughout the world.
It shall exist to sustain the ordinances, doctrines and ethics set forth in the New Testament for The Church of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to channel its offerings to support the work of the Kingdom of God.